These photos were taken about 1940 at a Tinch family get together.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Narrative by Dona Hiser
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TINCH - SPURLING FAMILY
As Told To Me by My Father, John Allen (C) Tinch by Dona Hiser
As Told To Me by My Father, John Allen (C) Tinch by Dona Hiser
About the middle of the 1700's, a man by the name of Tinch left England and came to America. He settled on the Roanoke River in Virginia. There, as the story goes, he married a Cherokee Indian maiden and raised a family. One of the children named George married Jensey Short. They raised three children: John, Mary, and Anderson.
Jensey died and George married Mary Jane Norman. They had six children: Wylie, George, Polly, Alex, Frank, and Allen.
Later George moved to Tennessee and settled in Morgan County near Old Palestine Church. Here he spent the remainder of his life and was buried in the Old Palestine Church cemetery. (Near Shadeland?)
The children grew up and scattered. Some of them married and settled in the Fentress County area. Others never married.
John went west and never returned. Anderson married Sally Spurling. They had one son, Jackson Polk. Sally died when Polk was 8-years-old. Anderson then married Winnie Crabtree. They had no children. Josephine, the Negro woman who had been a slave in the household, chose to stay on and take care of the young Polk even though she had been legally freed.
Anderson Tinch, the son of George Tinch, was born 3/30/1810. Sally Spurling Tinch was born 11/4/1814. They were married 4/26/1832. They had only one child, Jackson Polk Tinch, who was born 12/17/1848. Anderson died 3/03/1892. Sally died 11/14/1856. Winnie Crabtree was born 7/7/1817. She was married to Anderson 12/8/1856, had no children, and died 10/14/1890.
Jackson Polk. Tinch and Sarah A. Epsum were married on 10/24/1867. Sarah was born 3/18/1849. She passed away 12/30/1930. Polk passed away 11/7/1935.
Polk and Sarah had eight children. They were: Timothy Grant; Anderson Calfax; Titus Franklin; Mary Alice; Alexander George; John Allen (C) ; William Harvey; Andrew Jackson.
(NOTE: Andrew's birth mother is said to be Victoria Owens, sister of Abigail Owens.)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE FAMILY
OF GEORGE TINCH
OF GEORGE TINCH
The third child of George and Jensy Short Tinch who was named Mary, married a Ringler. They moved to Missouri and never returned.
The six children of George and his second wife, the former Mary Ann Norman, were Wylie, George, Polly, Alex, Frank, and Allen.
Wylie married a Robison and raised their family in Fentress County. One of their sons married Libby Walker, and a daughter married Oscar Reynolds.
George married a Scroggins. They raised their family in the Wolf River area of Fentress County. They had a son, Mills, who had a son George who lived in Brooksville, Florida. More info.
Polly was never married but had one son, Alvin, who married and had a son, Dillard.
Alex married and moved to Illinois.
Frank married Charity Hurst. They took their family to Illinois, Mattoon and Eldorado.
Allen married Nancy Hoover. They raised their family in Overton County near Cookeville.
1987 Jackson
Polk Tinch Family Reunion at Old Barger
Back row, left to right: Everett Tinch, son of William
Harvey Tinch; Fred Cromwell, son of Mary Alice Tinch Cromwell;
Delbert Tinch, son of Andrew Jackson Tinch; Archie Tinch, son
of Andrew Jackson Tinch, Mary Beatrice Proctor, daughter of Andrew
Jackson Tinch.
Second row: Sadie Tinch Richards, daughter of Timothy
Grant Tinch; Dona Tinch Hiser, daughter of John
Allen (C.) Tinch, Gladys Tinch Stephens, daughter of John
C. Tinch; Mae Tinch Blair, daughter of Alexander George Tinch.
Front Row: Juanita Tinch Carney Walker, daughter of
Anderson Tinch; Vera Tinch Gracy Dixon, daughter of John C. Tinch;
Walter Tinch, son of Franklin Titus Tinch; and Jessie Tinch House,
daughter of Andrew Jackson Tinch.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Family picture
Sons of Jackson Polk Tinch and their wives. Daughter Mary Tinch Cromwell is in the middle.
The family records
Dedicated to the descendants of George Tinch who moved from the Roanoke Valley of Virginia to Tennessee about 1810. George Tinch fathered Anderson Tinch who fathered Jackson Polk Tinch.
In
1987 Cathy Jeffers and I published 50 copies or so of The Family Records of
Jackson Polk Tinch.
Polk
was the son of Anderson Tinch of Fentress County Tennessee and the father of
Timothy Grant Tinch, Anderson Colfax Tinch, Titus Franklin Tinch, Mary Alice
Tinch, Alexander George Tinch, John C. Tinch, William Harvey Tinch, and Andrew
Jackson Tinch.
Cathy
and I took over the work from Mrs. Dona Hiser, who by 1987 was 80-years-old and
unable to complete the work by herself.
We
sold our 50 copies or so and still had requests a few years later.
The
records themselves have not been updated since 1987. But we have added some
material not in the original. This Ebook should prove useful for research and
will be treasured by family members. There is quite a lot of valuable
information. The Ebook presents the material as a pdf file to be read on your
computer or printed out.
It
includes the following sections:
* History written by Jackson Polk Tinch
* History written by Dona Hiser
* Letter from Ollie Farris
* How to read the family records
* Family Records -- 900 plus family members
listed
* Photos and additional information
Best
wishes,
Sandra
Turner
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