Comments on: Hugh Tinnin, Austin Texas: Tinnin Ford Road

By: Bradley B Tinnon

Bradley B Tinnon — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:29:48 +0000

This is an open group on facebook, it’s a way for the living descendants of the Colonel to keep in touch & remember we’re here because of men & families like him who believed in America.

By: Betty Crockford

Betty Crockford — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:12:18 +0000

Hello, for your info Mary Katherine Kate Tinnin Kendall is buried next to her first spouse, G. B. Tinnin, and her second, Samuel Kelly Kendall, in the City of Abilene, TX, Municipal Cemetery. Her son Pat Tinnin’s grave is located nearby. The cemetery roster is available on the City of Abilene/Cemetery website.

Betty

By: Kenny Emigh

Kenny Emigh — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:32:40 +0000

Hi, great Info!
I am the descendant of Hugh Tinnin, through his daughter Lucy, and her First Husband, Lt. Col. William Thomas Neal, then their daughter, Annie Neal, who married Steven Guthrie Nees, and produced my Gr. grandfather Albert Nees.

Anyhow, Hugh Tinnin was my 4th Gr. Grandfather. (that saves a lot of typing!)

I would love anything you can spare, or direct me to. I live in Cleburne, Texas. about 2.5 hrs. n. of Austin.

By: Beverly R. Conolly

Beverly R. Conolly — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:58:23 +0000

My ancestor was Rev.War Col. Hugh Tinnin of Orange Co., NC and Montgomery Co., TN. His son, Hugh Tinnin, was an early Ark State Representive. Azariah Tinnin started first Mason lodge west of Miss. River in Ark. Moved to Saledo, TX where he is buried. My grandmother’s maiden name was Tinnin, and my father’s middle name was Tinnin. A good name!!

By: Keith Snyder

Keith Snyder — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:11:17 +0000

My mother’s name was Myra Tinnin. She was the youngest (born 1925) of three girls that my grandfather, Hugh Tinnin, had by his wife, Mattie May Carter. The other sisters were Helen Lou Tinnin, a doctor who taught in North Carolina. And Dorothy Tinnin, married to Troy Joyner who had a son, Henry and daughter Jeannie. She lived in Shreveport, LA, most of her life. Dorothy (Dot as we called her) has passed on, I believe in 2003, and my mother passed on in 2000.

Hugh has a spinster sister named Helen who lived on an adjacent section of land to his. Grandpa Hugh died in 1960 or 61 while our family was stationed in Puerto Rico.

My mom was married to my dad, Harold Snyder. I am the oldest with a sister Karen, brother, Hugh, and sister, Karol.

I was born in Austin when my dad was stationed at Bergstrom AFB. We often visited the farm on the very road shown on the map here. I walked along that river road many a day in my youth.

Let me know if this sounds at all like we may be related.

I do have a certificate of slave ownership somewhere that my grandmother Mattie, gave me. I will see if I can find it for more details for Ms. Thompson.

By: Ernestine Thompson

Ernestine Thompson — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:56:52 +0000

I am surveying slave cemeteries in Travis County, Austin, Tx. and would like to have more information on Slaves. Where they lived, worked, died and are buried in Travis County.

Thanks,
E. Thompson

By: weigand

weigand — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:05:31 +0000

While doing some property research at the Austin History Center I discovered the transcript of an interview of Miss Helen Tinnin of Austin from 1973. It’s quite interesting and includes a great description of the Tinnin’s family move to Austin, and what life was like on the plantation. If you contact me I’ll try send you a copy.

By: Vicky Nelson

Vicky Nelson — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:56:36 +0000

I stumbled on this website by typing in the surname Tinnin. Tinnin was my maiden name. My dad is named Hugh Tinnin. He was born in 1935. His father’s name was Charles Tinnin and his mother’s name was Nancy Gromer. My father has some relatives that live in Texas. We live in Michigan. My dad left Missouri in 1953.

By: Sarah Dorn

Sarah Dorn — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:05:13 +0000

Very interesting site. I live about 60 miles north of Austin and have a Hugh Tinnin in my maternal line. However this Hugh Tinnin was born in 1770 in North Carolina. His sister, Elizabeth, is my gggg-grandmother. She married a Rogers and their daughter, Elifair, married Wiley Curry. They were in the first Texas Census in 1835. Wiley is said to have died at San Jacinto but this has not been proven. He was in the San Augustine militia and was not heard of after the Battle. No proof…he may have just left without telling anyone. The name Tinnin has been used in my Rogers family as a middle name for several generations.
One other interesting twist. Do you know who sold the land in Austin to your Hugh? Another of my lines, Saunders/Sanders, were land speculators in Travis County about that time. They made many land deals. Other names connect with Saunders and land dealings were Grigsby and Reid. They traveled in a “pack” across the southern part of the States as cheap land became available. Again, well done site.

By: Meg Parker Sergeant

Meg Parker Sergeant — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:02:21 +0000

I am not sure if your Granville Tinnin is the same one I am searching for. He was married to Mary Catherine Koen (sp?) and was apparently involved in a shooting in West Texas. Mary Koen Tinnin later married Samuel Kelly Kendall, brother to my gr. gr. grandfather, Daniel J. Kendall (born in KY, lived in TX, died in OK.)

I am still in the process of verifying this info.

You have a very interesting website. Many thanks.