Lucian Pinkston

b. circa 1802
  • Lucian Pinkston was born circa 1802 in Georgia.
  • He married Harriet Barton on 8 November 1824 in Montgomery County, Alabama.
  • Lucian Pinkston became a widower at the between 1824 and 1829 death of his wife Harriet Barton.
  • He married Permelia Whitfield Sledge, daughter of John Chappell Sledge and Jane Jeter Harris, on 15 June 1829 in Montgomery County, Alabama.
  • Lucian Pinkston and Permelia Whitfield Sledge appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Montgomery County, Texas.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1850 census.
  • On Friday, 12 September 1851, Green Wood recorded in his plantation daily account book: "Found the cotton catapillar in to cotton near grown . . . Saw some on Wednesday in plantation of Mr Usel & Pinkston,s."
  • Lucian Pinkston and Permelia Whitfield Sledge appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery PO, Montgomery County, Texas.
  • The following appeared on 30 March 1870 in The Galveston Tri-Weekly News: Notice. I hereby notify all persons not to trade for a Note and Mortgage held by H. B. McGar or Wm. McGar against me, as the same has been paid, and I hold a receipt in full against both Note and Mortgage, and will not again pay the same. Lucian Pinkston. Montgomery, March 5th, 1870.
  • Lucian Pinkston was a first cousin of John Comer Abercrombie; their mothers Grissell and Sarah Comer were sisters.
  • Jonathan Cogswell Farley was one of the first permanent white inhabitants of Montgomery, Alabama, then known as "New Philadelphia." His store was the site of Montgomery's first election in 1820, and also housed the town's first newspaper, The Montgomery Republican. He visited Greenwood in 1855, 1857, 1859 and 1860. J. C. Farley's first wife Thermutis Pinkston was Thermutis Pinkston's first cousin, daughter of his mother's helf-sister Grissell Comer Pinkston. Also, Grissell's son Lucius/Lucian Pinkston was in Montgomery County, Texas, 1850-1870.
  • Last Edited: 13 Sep 2011

Family 1: Harriet Barton b. say 1805, d. between 1824 and 1829

Family 2: Permelia Whitfield Sledge b. circa 1812