TINSLEY GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


The Tinsley Family can be found in colonial Virginia during the 1600s and 1700s. For many years I have tried to determine the parentage of Mary (Tinsley) Harris, but still this line has stumped me, although I've found some very interesting things since going on the internet. It seems that every Tinsley family of the period I am researching had a Mary Tinsley. There is a Mary Tinsley, daughter of Thomas Tinsley, who is the right age and location to be my Mary (Tinsley) Harris, but some researchers list that Mary Tinsley as married to someone else besides my John Harris.

Another Tinsley researcher who lives locally here in Springfield, Missouri is Hazel Voris, who is also a member of the Ozarks Genealogical Society. Her Tinsleys also come from Virginia in the 1700s, but so far we have not made a connection.

Here is my TINSLEY lineage:

  1. Mary TINSLEY, b. ca. 1705 VA, d. bef. 1786 VA; md. ca. 1738 Hanover Co., VA to John HARRIS, b. ca. 1704 Hanover Co., VA, d. Dec. 1786 Hanover Co., VA
  2. Elizabeth HARRIS (dau. of Mary TINSLEY and John HARRIS), b. ca. 1744 Hanover Co., VA, d. summer 1818 Prince Edward Co., VA; md. 1763 Hanover Co., VA to her first cousin, Lewis HARRIS, b. 1730 Hanover Co., VA, d. ca. June 1784 Prince Edward Co., VA (son of David HARRIS and Jane LANDY)
  3. Gideon HARRIS, b. 30 July 1772 Prince Edward Co., VA, d. 26 Oct. 1860 Marshall Co., TN; md. 25 Dec. 1805 Prince Edward Co., VA to Martha Taylor GILLIAM, b. 3 Feb. 1786 Goochland Co., VA, d. 14 May 1860 Marshall Co., TN (both buried in Harris Family Cemetery in Marshall Co., TN)
  4. Gideon Lindsey HARRIS, b. 12 Dec. 1813 Wilson Co., TN, d. 11 March 1896 McNairy Co., TN (buried at Mars Hill Cemetery, McNairy Co., TN); md. 22 Nov. 1831 Maury Co., TN to Lucy Elizabeth LEDBETTER, b. 14 Dec. 1814 Chatham Co., NC, d. 11 April 1856 McNairy Co., TN (buried Ledbetter Cemetery, Hardin Co., TN)
  5. William Ashley HARRIS, b. 19 May 1849 Hardin Co., TN, d. 12 Mar. 1916 McNairy Co., TN; md. 18 Oct. 1868 McNairy Co., TN to Sarah Agatha LITTLEFIELD, b. 28 Oct. 1849 Jonesborough, Tippah Co., MS, d. 7 Feb. 1940 Leapwood, McNairy Co., TN (both buried at Mars Hill Cemetery, McNairy Co., TN)
  6. James David HARRIS, b. 9 Jan. 1871 McNairy Co., TN, d. 22 Sept. 1938 Marlow, Stephens Co., OK (buried in the Marlow Cemetery); md. 28 Oct. 1894 McNairy Co., TN to Docia Bell PYRON, b. 5 Oct. 1872 McNairy Co., TN, d. 1 Sept. 1944 Lyford, Willacy Co., TX (buried at Combes, Texas)
  7. William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO; md. 12 Dec. 1915 Parker Co., TX to Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 Nov. 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO (both buried in the Dove Creek Cemetery, Dove Creek, CO) *These are my grandparents.



TINSLEY E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the TINSLEY surname, you may post these at the Tinsley Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Tinsley surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]

Archived postings to the Tinsley e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

When prompted, type in TINSLEY for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in TINSLEY you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.




ROOTSWEB TINSLEY MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the TINSLEY surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Tinsley Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any TINSLEY name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.





An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the TINSLEY family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/tinsley

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the TINSLEY lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.



Some other Tinsley researchers and web sites include:

    The Rucker Family Society Page

    The Tinsley Home Page

    Descendants of Thomas Tinsley

    John Tinsley Home Page


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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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