Redding Pinson (abt. 1808 - abt. 1872)

Born about 1808 in South Carolina, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy (Whelchel) Pinson — married 5 Mar 1832 in Hall, Georgia, United States

Descendants

Died about 1872 at about age 64 in Smith, Texas, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Redding was born in 1808. His wife was Nancy Welchel or Whelchel.

Redding Pinson's Supreme Court Case

In 1850, Redding was a party in a lawsuit, Davis vs Whelchel, which was later appealed in the Georgia Supreme Court. Per the text in the Georgia Supreme Court records, M.A. Keith was security for Redding Pinson on a claim bond in a case tried in Cherokee (County) Superior Court in which the jury found damages and judment was rendered against Keith and Pinson.

Keith, the security, paid off the judgement, but later, to reimburse himself, rendered the judgement against a lot owned by Redding Pinson in Hall County, Georgia. The land was then claimed by Davis Whelchel. Apparently, this action was litigated in Hall County Superior Court during the September 1850 term.

The action was then appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court, which heard the case during it's October term in Gainesville Georgia. The judgement was reversed, so Redding Pinson must have got his land back, or payment for it. Of course, by this time he was in Smith County, Texas.

It's also unclear whether the case originated from an error in an estate transaction, in which Redding was in a fiduciary action. Answers may be found by reading microfilmed records of Hall County, Georgia. A good project for a descendant genealogist.

Census Data and Notes

1840 U.S. Census for Hall County, Georgia

Page 197

• Isaac Pinson 00001-02001 (he & wife in 20’s? b 1810-20.) (Redden's brother)
• John Wallis
• J. D. Lowery
• Henry Newton
• George Lathem
• Orana Pinson 0001-0000000000

Page 200

• Redin Pinson 110001-10001

4 houses later Davis, Sr. Welchel

Notes:

• All column's not entered for Redin were empty. He is shown in his 30's (born 1800-1810) which conforms with his father's earlier censi. His wife, Nancy, in her 20's. They have a son aged 5 to 9 and both a son and daughter aged 0 to 4. Those children match with the eldest three in his 1850 census, Harvey, John and Elizabeth.
• Orana Pinson located by Burgess Pinson in 1830?
• Redin (Redding or Redden) was married to Nancy Welchel and any Welchel family near by are undoubtedly her kin.

United States Census, 1850 for Smith County, Texas:

• Redding Pinson Male 42 South Carolina
• Nancy Pinson Female 37 South Carolina
• Harvey Pinson Male 17 Georgia
• John Pinson Male 15 Georgia
• Elizabeth Pinson Female 12 Georgia
• Margaret Pinson Female 10 Georgia
• Moses Pinson Male 7 Georgia
• Aaron Pinson Male 4 Georgia
• Thomas Pinson Male 2 Texas

Notes:

• Redding names two children after his parents, Moses and Margaret, and gives another the name of his paternal grandfather.
• Son Harvey was the author of the letter naming his father and eight of his father's siblings, as children of Moses and Margaret (Henry) Pinson.
• Children's birth states in the 1850 and 1860 censi indicate the move from Georgia to Texas occurred between 1844 and 1848.

United States Census, 1860 for Smith County, Texas:

• Reddin Pinson M 48 South Carolina
• Nancy Pinson F 43 South Carolina
• Moses Pinson M 18 Georgia
• Aaron Pinson M 16 Georgia
• Thos Pinson M 12 Texas
• Mary Pinson F 7 Texas
• James Pinson M 2 Texas
• Jordan Whelchel M 30 Georgia

Notes:

• Household 536, Family 537. Enumerated 1 August 1860. Redden and Nancy Pinson are sandwiched between sons Harvey and John, both next door.
• The LDS transcriber read the name Pierson, but they didn't know what name to expect. I read it as Pinson, without question.

Descendants as proven by DNA and Standard Genealogy

• Christopher Manning: His second great grandmother was Odie Belle (Pinson) Roch, daughter of Redden's son John. Christopher matched G. Pinson (Pinson-796) on autosomal dna testing through Ancestrydna.com, sharing MRCAs Reverend Aaron and Elizabeth (M.N.U.) Pinson.

Sources

• "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWHC-GXV : 12 January 2020), Redding Pinson and Nancy Whelchel, 5 March1832, Hall County, Georgia, USA.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLG-2YR : 12 April 2016), Redding Pinson, Smith county, part of, Smith, Texas, United States; citing family 285, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• 1860 United States Census for James Town Beat, Smith County, Texas.
• "Harvey Pinson letter of 1880" as published in the October 1978 edition of "The Pinson Quarterly" on pages 4-6. Prior to the publication of the original 2 page letter dated 28 March 1880, there is an explanatory paragraph stated that Loreita Hayden had published another (see (22)) letter from Harvey dated 1890 proving him a son of Redding Pinson and Redding a son of Moses Pinson . Then it gave the progeny for this 1880 letter, stating it had come from Harvey's nephew Ray Pinson of Marble Falls Texas who had then apparently turned it over to David Pinson, editor of the Pinson Quarterly, at a 1978 Pinson family reunion. The main subject of this 1880 letter was the death of Harvey's brother John. As proven by the 1850 Census, Harvey did have a brother John who was born c 1835.
• "Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6YM-Y9K : 11 February 2018), Redden Pinson in entry for Jim Cullen Pinson, 14 Nov 1954; citing Dublin, Erath, Texas, reference 9; FHL microfilm 1,845,916.
• Keith vs Whelchel. Case summarized on pages 179 through 183 of the book Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia, in the Year ..., Volume 9 Paperback – June 13, 2010. by Georgia. Supreme Court (Creator). Nabu Press (June 13, 2010). 872 pages.
• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mjr6387&id=I80482
• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:S5GQ-828 : accessed 24 June 2018), entry for Redding /Pinson/

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