Stinnett

Slave Narrative of J. W. Stinnett

Person Interviewed: J. W. Stinnett Place of Birth: Grayson County, Prairie Grove, Texas Date of Birth: 1863 What with raising nine grandchildren whose mammy is dead, this old head of mine has too many troubles to remember much about them slave days, but anyways I was born in 1863, at a place in Grayson County, Texas, name of Prairie Grove. My mammy come from Virginia, where pappy come from I don’t know, and where he went I don’t know, because he take off to the north during the war and never come back. His name was George Stinnett and mammy’s name … Read more

Biographical Sketch of William W. Stinnett

WILLIAM W. STINNETT, son of Noel N. and Margaret (Winders) Stinnett, was born in Todd County, September 16, 1838, and is the second of a family of eleven children, born to these parents. His grand-father, Benjamin Stinnett, was a native of Ireland and came here when young, to what is now Todd County, where he married and reared his family, and where he spent his life. He was a Baptist minister, with the duties of which he combined agriculture. His son, Noel N. Stinnett, was born in this county, of which he is now an honored citizen, and as above … Read more