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 LEXANDER TINCH. This self-made man
and independent agriculturist of Humbolt
Township, is the possessor of a snug farm
of seventy-nine acres under a fine state of
cultivation, with good buildings and all the appurtenances of a first-class country estate. He commenced life in a humble manner, receiving his
education in a log school-house in Tennessee, and
by the exercise alone of his own industry and resolution, has attained to a good position, socially and
financially, among his fellow-men. Mr. Tinch first drew breath near the city of Knoxville, Tenn., on the 16th of February. 1825. It is hardly necessary to state that Knoxville, sixty years ago, was scarcely to be compared with the present town, which has since gained a national reputation. The parents of our subject, George and Mary (Norman) Tinch, were natives respectively of Virginia and South Carolina. They spent the greater part of their lives in Tennessee. They are now deceased and buried near Knoxville. Mr. Tinch remained a resident of his native State until 1862, in the meantime having been married, and then removed North to Indiana. Three years later he came to this county, and first purchased forty acres of land, which is included in his present homestead. To this he afterward added thirty-nine acres, and has carefully cultivated the entire area, utilizing every rod and sutffering nothing to go to waste. His stock and machinery are of first-class description and well cured for, and the farm in all its departments indicates the thrift and industry of its proprietor. The first wife of our subject was in her girlhood Miss Isabel Davis, to whom he was married in Tennessee in early manhood, and who became the mother of six children, namely, Josiah A., Richard, Levi, Asia, Chesley and Erie. Mrs. Isabel Tinch departed this life Feb. 26, 1864. Mr. Tinch was the second time married, June 1, 1864, to Miss Martha Jones, of Tennessee, and their seven children were: Ettie, born May 29, 1867; Nancy. June 10, 1869; Julian, Aug. 29, 1871; Nettie, Feb. 23, 1873; Rhoda Jan. 21, 1875; James, June 17, 1876; and Emma, Oct. 1, 1883. Ettie was married to Allen Bensley, Dec. 16, 1885; they have one child—Franklin Alexander, who was born Jan. 30, 1887. During the progress of the late war Mr. Tinch enlisted as a Union soldier in Co. K, 22d Ind. Vol. Inf., serving one year and to the close. He is a Republican of the first water, and never had any sympathy with rebels or secessionists. Mr. and , Mrs. T. are members and attendants of the Baptist Church. |
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