Caleb was the son of Harris Tyner (1770--1844) and Ruthea Jane Tollison ((1774--1850), and grandson of Richard Tyner, a veteran of the Revolutionary War. His wife and some of his children were massacred by Indians in Ebert County, Georgia. DNA tests show that RIchard's not from my line (Sarah Tyner and her married neighbor John Harris), although some family trees (including mine, before the tests) attached him to her.