Contributor: Dorothy Boynton
HUSBAND: Azariah Tinnin
Birth date: 18 Dec 1816
Birth place: Cape Girardeau Co., MO
Death date: 19 Dec 1869
Death place: Salado, Bell Co., TX
Burial place: Salado Cemetery
Father: Hugh Tinnin
Mother: Elizabeth Harris
WIFE: Amanda Wolf
Birth date: 12 Feb 1816
Birth place: Hopkins Co., KY
Death date: 9 Mar 1836
Death place: Morgan, Bosque Co., TX
Burial place: Morgan Cemetery
Father: Major Jacob Wolf
Mother: Maldred Meredith
Marriage date: about 1830
Marriage place: Izard County, AR
CHILD 1: Myra Tinnin
Birth date: about 1832
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CHILD 2: Catherine Tinnin
Birth date: about 1834
Birth place: AR
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CHILD 3: Jacob Wolf Tinnin
Birth date: 16 June 1841
Birth place: Izard Co., AR
Death date: 5 Feb 1919
Death place: Austin, Travis Co., TX, buried Morgan, Bosque Co., TX
Spouse: Mary Catherine Griffin
Marriage Date: 16 Apr 1867
Marriage Place: Bosque Co., TX
CHILD 4: Thaud Tinnin
Birth date: about 1842
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CHILD 5: Lizzie Tinnin
Birth date: about 1843
Birth place: Izard Co., AR
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CHILD 6: Oreania Tinnin
Birth date: about 1846
Birth place: Izard Co., AR
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CHILD 7: Lemuel Tinnin
Birth date: 1856
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CHILD 8: William H. Tinnin
Birth date: about 1858
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Baxter and Izard Co., AR Census 1850 Masonic Records of Arkansas Tinnin Treks by Dorothy Tinnin Norris and Mary Tinnin Barber Wolf House Historian, Vol 1-4 Jacob Wolf the Mansion and The Man by Bill D. Blevins Historic Wolf House: The Family and the Times National Register of Historic Places the Home, Courthouse and County Seat of the 1820’s Confederate Pension Records
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The Tinnin family left Arkansas following the Civil War and settled in Bell County near Salado. Azariah soon died and was buried there. Amanda moved to Bosque County where her son Jacob Wolf Tinnin and his wife lived at Morgan which was a railroad terminus for shipping cattle to Kansas City. Jacob Wolf Tinnin operated a confectionary store, edited and published the local newspaper, taught school, and was a very active member of the
Confederate veterans organization. He was noted throughout Bosque and Bell Counties as a gifted orator and writer. Nothing much is know of the other children. There is a Johnny Wolf buried beside Amanda in the Morgan
Cemetery. He was 12 years old when he died at her home. Since Amanda’s maiden name was Wolf it is known that
he is a family member but this researcher does not know who his parents were. Wolf family records say that Amanda was married a second time to a Judge Harley, but this researcher has not been able to document that. Amanda’s father, Major Jacob Wolf was selected by President Adams to pioneer the territory where the White River and the North River merged at a place called Norfork, AR. Thus the family moved from KY to AR in 1818 and her father built an establishment that is now certified as the oldest courthouse in AR. However the Civil War destroyed the holdings and wealth of the Wolf family and that is how the Tinnin’s found themselves in Texas in the Bosque County area.