Vinson Family of Hopkins Co., KY, Maury/Carroll/McNairy Co., TN, Tishomingo Co., MS, Limestone/Navarro Co., TX

Jesse R. Vinson and His Descendants

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Journey Begins Back in time

We trace Granny's ancestors back from the metroplex of Dallas - Fort Worth to the rural area of Navarro and Limestone Texas where she was born and grew up. Her parents had met in McNairy Co., Texas. Shortly after their marriage they moved to an area about 12 miles outside of Memphis. About 1890, her parents came to Lorena, McLennan Co., Texas where they lived for a couple of years before returning to Tennessee. Some of the family had settled in this area earlier. When they returned to Texas about 1896, Granville would bring his father and some of his half siblings wtih him. This time they would live in Hill County, Texas for a year before finally settling in the Coolidge area or its outskirts.

Granny's father was born 1868 in Iuka, Tishomingo Co., MS where his great grandfather, Jesse R. Vinson had settled about 1846. For years, the Vinson fammily moved back and forth between McNairy Co., TN and Tishomingo Co., MS. My 3rd gt grandpa Hiriam Calvin Vinson had married November 19, 1844 in Fayette Co., Texas. In the 1830's we find the Vinsons moving back and forth between Hopkins Co., Kentucky and Carroll Co., Tennessee.


Search Continues - Jesse in Hopkins Co., KY (1829)

So let's travel with the Vinsons from the bustling Texas metroplex in the 1970's back in time through the rual areas of Texas, and on back to Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky where we will leave them in Hopkins County, Kentucky in 1829 as the search continues to prove the parentage of our Jesse R. Vinson.

GEDCOM on WORLD CONNECT

Accompanying this site, I have a gedcom on World Connect which goes into much more detail and carries out many of the ancestors descendants of this group of Vinsons. Please be sure to take a look! I try to update it at least once a month - sometimes sooner!

This site concentrates on my direct Vinson ancestors and their siblings with stories, scans of records, pictures, tombstones and other interest The gedcoms, however, will have much more on the descendants of the siblings of my Vinson aunts and uncles and also on the spousal families upon which they intermarried.

CAMPBELL,DONAHOO, HENSLEY, KENDALL, SMITH, VINSON, WRIGHT

LEDBETTER, ROUNTREE, RUNNELS, SMITH

Dedication and Special Thanks

The Vinson part of my genealogy site is dedicated to Granny, Edna Vinson, my mother's mother. It was during the summer of 1963, when I was 11, that I became very close to her. Daddy was in the hospital at this time and my mother was working steadily. So my sister and I went to spend the summer. We were never again to return to that old house in Ft Worth near the stock yards. By the end of summer, we had located an apartment just 1 short block for us to move into. Granny would be a big part of my adolescent years.

First of all I must thank those, who are now deceased, who tried to answer the never-ending questions of a 17 year old when I first started this about 1969. Most couldn't understand why I wanted to know and as a result this family has been a very difficult one to trace. Plus Meridith had 3 marriages with children from all three. Though Aunt Ethel (Vinson) Adams (1888-1982), the only child from the second marriage would try to keep everyone together and acquainted, it just didn't always work that way. Though there were 10 children from the first marriage, only 2, Granville (1868-1940) and Aunt Hester (Vinson) Christian (1880-1933), lived for very long. This family had lost many of the girls to tuberculosis as children or while young women. Meridith's children from his third family were more of the generation of Granville and Hester's children than siblings.

Special thanks to Granny who kept all the obituaries from the Coolidge paper. She also passed on to me the love for poetry as had this scrapbook filled with poems which had appeared in newspapers.

Next, I must thank Inez (Scott) Kincheloe (1908-1997). She took pity on a young girl and also shared this 'love of family history' and lingering thirst to know 'why, where, and the details'.

During my search from 1969-1972, I contacted either by letter or person just about every living descendant of Hiriam Calvin Vinson and Martha Anna Kendall and each one contributed what they could on their family. Special recognition to Pat Gafford McGuye who sent me a huge Vinson and Kendall file and to Bill Vinson, who is no longer with us.

In more recent years, the cousins just keep showing up and these, now share the same interest in preserving 'our family history' that I do. Some of these that quickly come to mind are Bill Kendall, Charlotte McDonald, Dyan Hutchins, Patricia Barnett and her 'cemetery crew', Al Womack, Terry Albers, Irene Wright, Lynn Crow, Rick Gilbert, Don Pierce, Jim Vinson, Sylvia Bays, and many many more. Also, along the way, there have been several lookup volunteers and various list members who have gone out of their way to search for and send information. And I'm sure as the search continues, many more cousins will be discovered and each will help in their own way.

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