Person:Lemuel Tinnin (4)

Post-em note by Alex Thompson: Land Patent records maintained by the Bureau of Land Management show that Lemuel Tinnen and [brother-in-law] John Amy Parmly Carr were jointly issued a Land Patent for 160 acres in Benton Co. Arkansas on 8/11/1844. On that same day, Lemuel’s brother Hugh Tinnen was issued a Land Patent for 80 acres in neighboring Washington Co. Arkansas. John A.P. Carr and Hugh Tinnen had left Hinds Co. Mississippi and joined Lemuel in northwest Arkansas. Both John Carr (who married Lemuel’s sister Nancy Jane Tinnin) and Hugh Tinnin later moved on to Travis Co. Texas, where Hugh settled down (Tinnin Ford of the Colorado River, just outside of Austin). After a few years, John Carr moved on. He and wife Nancy Jane Tinnin died in Bastrop Co. TX and are buried in Hog Eye Cemetery, Elgin, TX (ref. FindaGrave.com).

Details of the Land Patents may be viewed at the BLM Search Site: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Default.asp? Note the spelling of the name: Tinnen.

Lemuel had actually died in 1842, but there was a 5 year lag between applying for a Land Patent and its being issued, during which time the applicant(s) were supposed to live on the land and make improvements. The 1840 Census of Benton Co. AR shows J P Carr and L Tinan listed next to each other.