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1855 - 1924 (69 years)| Name | Pinkney DINKINS [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] | |
| Birth | May 1855 | Stateburg/Rembert/Rafting/Rafton Creek, Sumter County, South Carolina  [2, 3, 4] |
| Gender | Male | |
| HIST | If he was 65 years of age at death then his birth and/or death is incorrect. jkh Dinkins Family - The Pinkney Dinkins Branch We are a large family, starting with Pinkney Dinkins, son of John Dinkins and Catherine of Rembert, South Carolina. The Dinkins family of South Carolina is a part of a much larger Dinkins family that started with the Dinkinses that landed in Charleston, South Carolina, from Ireland on Octobert 19th, 1717. Research by Mrs. Ruth Sowers Owens of Lexington, Kentucky, a Dinkins descendent, states that the name may be derived from Dene. The family originated in Wales in about the 1500’s and moved into the lowlands of Scotland and then on to Londonderry in the north of Ireland. Dene is the old English name Dean and means small valley, a home site. The ending “kin” on a name means son of and would make the name Denekin. From there it would be simple enough to arrive at the name Dinkins. A book by Captain James Dinkins, a Civil War veteran, states that the Dinkins family came to America from Ireland in 1717. Brothers James, John and Samuel with cousins Thomas and Joshua landed in Charleston, South Carolina. Information from Doris Dinkins Wallace of Nashville, Tennessee states that James, Thomas and John Dinkins were said to be Welshmen who joined the Armstrong family in Ireland, having been driven from the country, so tradition has it, because of disloyalty to the crown. Tradition also states that they were called Devil in The Bush or Bushwhackers, which implies they were outlaws. It is claimed that this labeling was because of a king’s imposed restriction on their hunting priviledges. The journal of John Williams Armstrong contains the following account of the Armstrong and Dinkins families coming to South Carolina in 1717; and it read, “we landed at Charleston on the ninth and tenth of the tenth month in the annual 1717. My brother Henry, my brother Robert and my near kin Rufus and Geo Armstrong, also then cam our strong fren, Thomas Dinkins, besides John Dinkins. We were alone. We possessed in entire sufficient one was value. My brother David was useful with building boats. My fren Thomas the same. On the nine month 1718 by brother Robert and my fren James Dinkins bade leave for Ireland. On the sixth month 1719 may God bless that morning tho came my love companion and chil Margaret and also came back James Dinkins and Robert with families. 1723 annual was again was to Mecklenburg Co., Carolina. Sens we left Londonberry just four annual.” There is also an indication in the research by Ms. Pat Bradley Dinkins on why the family may have had to move. In 1685, rice was introduced and Charlestown began to grow as rice production increased. By the time the Scotch-Irish began to arrive, the aristocratic low country planters did not want the immigrants in Charlestown anymore than the independent new settlers wanted to be there. The new comers were sometimes proveded with up country land grants and supplies. These settlers started off often on foot to the up country wilderness of the Carolina mountains. The Dinkins and Armstrong families must have done this as they walked to Mecklenburg County, now a part of North Carolina. Early colonial records in South Carolina, up until the Revolution, have indicated that there were four counties in Carolina. The first was Granville, the second was Colleton, the third was Berkeley,the fourth was Craven county. It was the larger of the four counties. It’s boundaries began at the mouth of the Santee River and up the Atlantic Ocean to the North Carolina line, then along the North Carolina line to what is now Greenville, South Carolina, and down on the east side of old Berkeley to what is now Columbia and then along the Santee to the sea. From 1745 to 1775, a law was passed about land grants. A man with a wife could take 100 acres and 50 additional acres for each child under age 18. Each single child, whether boy or girl, over age 18 could take 100 acres. You can judge the number in a man’s family by the number of acres he had. After the Revolutioin, a man or woman could take as many acres as he could get. Records dating back to 1764 indicates that Joshua Dinkins received a land grant for 61 acres on the south side of the Wateree River in Cracen County and on waters of Rafting Creek. William Dinkins received a land grant for 200 acres. It appears that the Dinkinses, of the Rafting Creek community, or should I say Craven County, came here by way of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It appears that everyone didn’t move to Mecklenburg County immediately. According to data by Miss Parson, William Dinkins, arrived in South Carolina around 1720 and John arrived around 1717. Both William Dinkins and John Dinkins arrived in South Carolina about the same time. John went into North Carolina and so did William, later on. It is said that William was a son of a John Dinkins. William Dinkins was married to Sarah Tompkins on 12 Feb 1738 in the Prince Frederick Episcopal Church. This church was the parish church of the entire Craven County from 1715 to 1765 when other parish churches were erected. The dates of this William fit for him to have been a son of John Dinkins, arrived in Charleston 1717. Records indicate that William Dinkins and wife Sarah T. Dinkins are land owners in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, along with the Sanders, Canteys, Bradleys, Conyers, Shaws and Hodges. All of these family names show up later in Camden District, in marriage records from the church. William Dinkins disappears from Williamsburg in the early 1740’s to 1746, when he sold his land and is said he joined his relatives in North Carolina. However, before their move to North Carolina, records state that: William Dinkins, son of William Dinkins Sr. and Sarah Tompkins, was born on 18 May 1746 in Craven, South Carolina and died on 26 Feb 1818 in Camden District, South Carolina at the age of 71. From records obtained, the Dinkins family name does no appear in Craven County again until 1764. Land plats for Dinkins before Revolution in South Carolina Historical Com., records indicate that “all of these came in from North Carolina.” Joshua 1764 - 61 acres in Craven County William 1764 - 200 acres in Craven County According to “Historical Sketches of Sumter County”, William Dinkins (1746-1818) married first in 1768, Sarah Wright, daughter of William and Sarah (Patterson) Wright, all of the Stateburg area of Sumter County. After the death, in 1791, of his first wife, William Dinkins married Nancy Smart and moved to Georgia. However, it is stated that he was buried in Sumter County, in the Wright-Dinkins-Atkinson Cemetery. William and Sarah (Wright) DInkins had five children: Samuel (1769-1825) unmarried; Asa (born in 1771), married Mary Anne Jennings: William and Wright P., both of whom died as infants; and Sarah who died unmarried. Asa Dinkins was born on 1 Aug 1771 in Sumter, South Carolina, and died on 15 Nov 1819 at the age of 48. Asa and his wife Mary Anne Jennings had 11 childen, one of which was Larkin T. Dinkins. Mary Anne Jennings, born 23 Oct 1775 and died 27 Dec 1836. From the Bible owned by Miss Countney Atkinson, RFD No. 1, Rembert, South Carolina. Larkin T. DInkins died on 4 Mar 1854, Sumter County, South Carolina. He married on 17 Jan 1833 in Richland County, South Carolina to Frances A. McLaughlin. Larkin and Frances had nine children, one of which was John D. Dinkins, born 28 Jun 1836. John D. Dinkins was never married. However, he did have children, Pinkney Dinkins being one. Pinkney Dinkins is my great-grandfather. South Carolina Death Index 1915-1949, certificate number 94958, volume 4; states that John Dinkins and Catherine Dinkins are the parents of Pinkney Dinkins. Galloway reported the death and Thomas M. Moore MD of Horatio, recorded the death. Pinkney Dinkins was born May 1855, he died on 12 May 1924 in Manning, South Carolina. The service was held 13 May 1924. Pinkney is buried in the Rafting Creek Baptist Church Cemetery at the rear middle of the cemetery. Pinkney had three siblings, Phyllis, James and John. These siblings are listed in the Montgomery-Dinkins-Sheriff-Conyers Family Tree. They are children of his father John Dinkins. His mother, Katherine, had only one child, Pinkney. Pinkney Dinkins first married Rebecca Gray. They were married about 1875. They had 10 children. Census records of 1900 indicates that Pinkney and Rebecca had been married 25 years at the time of the census. Records show they had 12 children, of which nine were living. Hodge Dinkins was listed as a 14-year-old. Entries also show that Pinkney could read and write. Most children, as well as Rebecca, could not read and/or write. Birth dates for the children were taken from the 1900 census. Also living in the household was William, a nephew. Wheeler, he was born on 15 May 1877 and died Oct. 1963. Linda Jane, she was born Oct 1879 in Rembert, South Carolina. Rush, he was born Feb 1883. Hodge, he was born Apr 1886 in Rembert, South Carolina. He died on 25 Jul 1959 in Rembert, South Carolina. Eugene, he was born Jul 1889. Bruce, he was born Oct 1891. Neason, he was born Jan 1893, he died Sep 1959 in Manning, South Carolina. Walter, he was born May 1895. Laura, she was born Jan 1898. Jane Dinkins, she was born 1880. Rebecca was born Jan 1860, burial was in the Dinkins Family burial site, Highway 261. It is located on the right of the entrance to Bethesda United Methodist Church. The site is not marked, however many family members know where it is. There also, is a slave cemetery adjacent to the Dinkins Family burial site, which is also unmarked. After the death of his first wife, Pinkney married Mary Chestnut. She was born abt. 1886. Pinkney Dinkins and Mary Chestnut had 12 children. Polian, Durrey, Katherine, Lizzy, Walter, Monroe, Galloway, Mike, Pinkney, Nicien, Willie, and N. M. Dinkins. Pinkney fathered a total of 22 children. Hodge Dinkins. He was born Apr 1886 in Rembert, South Carolina. He died on 25 Jul 1959 in Rembert, South Carolina. My grandfather married Leacy Miller, she is the duaghter of Issac Miller and Lucy Scott. She was born 1886 in Rembert, South Carolina. She died 1965 in Sumter, South Carolina. To this union 17 children were born. Issac, Rebecca, Rita, Lucille, Marshall, Louise, Edward, Edmonia, Paul, Sillas, Laura, Edgar, Millie, Dora, Lucy, Alice, and Pinkney Dinkins. We know that there once was a photo of our great-grandfather Pinkney and if anyone has information on the photo please contact us. www.hodgedinkinstree.org Thank you, Historical Society (Genealogical) for this wonderful opportunity to share our genealogy with you. In closing, I would like to acknowledge without naming everyone that have researched and compiled information and documents that has helped in bringing this genealogy together. From our beginning in Ireland to our present, there is a lot more information compiled on the Dinkinses. This is just a small portion on Pinkney Dinkins. It is a part of a much larger family unit whose ancestors landed in Charlestown, South Carolina on 19 Oct 1717 from Ireland. At this time I would like to acknowledge my sister Dr. Julia M. Dinkins, who lives in Maryland. She worked tirelessly in bringing this heritage to this point and continues to seek additional information to help strengthen the family. A History of the Dinkins Family, The Pinkney Dinkins Branch. [5, 6] | |
| HIST | If he was 65 years of age at death then his birth and/or death is incorrect. jkh Dinkins Family - The Pinkney Dinkins Branch We are a large family, starting with Pinkney Dinkins, son of John Dinkins and Catherine of Rembert, South Carolina. The Dinkins family of South Carolina is a part of a much larger Dinkins family that started with the Dinkinses that landed in Charleston, South Carolina, from Ireland on Octobert 19th, 1717. Research by Mrs. Ruth Sowers Owens of Lexington, Kentucky, a Dinkins descendent, states that the name may be derived from Dene. The family originated in Wales in about the 1500’s and moved into the lowlands of Scotland and then on to Londonderry in the north of Ireland. Dene is the old English name Dean and means small valley, a home site. The ending “kin” on a name means son of and would make the name Denekin. From there it would be simple enough to arrive at the name Dinkins. A book by Captain James Dinkins, a Civil War veteran, states that the Dinkins family came to America from Ireland in 1717. Brothers James, John and Samuel with cousins Thomas and Joshua landed in Charleston, South Carolina. Information from Doris Dinkins Wallace of Nashville, Tennessee states that James, Thomas and John Dinkins were said to be Welshmen who joined the Armstrong family in Ireland, having been driven from the country, so tradition has it, because of disloyalty to the crown. Tradition also states that they were called Devil in The Bush or Bushwhackers, which implies they were outlaws. It is claimed that this labeling was because of a king’s imposed restriction on their hunting priviledges. The journal of John Williams Armstrong contains the following account of the Armstrong and Dinkins families coming to South Carolina in 1717; and it read, “we landed at Charleston on the ninth and tenth of the tenth month in the annual 1717. My brother Henry, my brother Robert and my near kin Rufus and Geo Armstrong, also then cam our strong fren, Thomas Dinkins, besides John Dinkins. We were alone. We possessed in entire sufficient one was value. My brother David was useful with building boats. My fren Thomas the same. On the nine month 1718 by brother Robert and my fren James Dinkins bade leave for Ireland. On the sixth month 1719 may God bless that morning tho came my love companion and chil Margaret and also came back James Dinkins and Robert with families. 1723 annual was again was to Mecklenburg Co., Carolina. Sens we left Londonberry just four annual.” There is also an indication in the research by Ms. Pat Bradley Dinkins on why the family may have had to move. In 1685, rice was introduced and Charlestown began to grow as rice production increased. By the time the Scotch-Irish began to arrive, the aristocratic low country planters did not want the immigrants in Charlestown anymore than the independent new settlers wanted to be there. The new comers were sometimes proveded with up country land grants and supplies. These settlers started off often on foot to the up country wilderness of the Carolina mountains. The Dinkins and Armstrong families must have done this as they walked to Mecklenburg County, now a part of North Carolina. Early colonial records in South Carolina, up until the Revolution, have indicated that there were four counties in Carolina. The first was Granville, the second was Colleton, the third was Berkeley,the fourth was Craven county. It was the larger of the four counties. It’s boundaries began at the mouth of the Santee River and up the Atlantic Ocean to the North Carolina line, then along the North Carolina line to what is now Greenville, South Carolina, and down on the east side of old Berkeley to what is now Columbia and then along the Santee to the sea. From 1745 to 1775, a law was passed about land grants. A man with a wife could take 100 acres and 50 additional acres for each child under age 18. Each single child, whether boy or girl, over age 18 could take 100 acres. You can judge the number in a man’s family by the number of acres he had. After the Revolutioin, a man or woman could take as many acres as he could get. Records dating back to 1764 indicates that Joshua Dinkins received a land grant for 61 acres on the south side of the Wateree River in Cracen County and on waters of Rafting Creek. William Dinkins received a land grant for 200 acres. It appears that the Dinkinses, of the Rafting Creek community, or should I say Craven County, came here by way of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It appears that everyone didn’t move to Mecklenburg County immediately. According to data by Miss Parson, William Dinkins, arrived in South Carolina around 1720 and John arrived around 1717. Both William Dinkins and John Dinkins arrived in South Carolina about the same time. John went into North Carolina and so did William, later on. It is said that William was a son of a John Dinkins. William Dinkins was married to Sarah Tompkins on 12 Feb 1738 in the Prince Frederick Episcopal Church. This church was the parish church of the entire Craven County from 1715 to 1765 when other parish churches were erected. The dates of this William fit for him to have been a son of John Dinkins, arrived in Charleston 1717. Records indicate that William Dinkins and wife Sarah T. Dinkins are land owners in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, along with the Sanders, Canteys, Bradleys, Conyers, Shaws and Hodges. All of these family names show up later in Camden District, in marriage records from the church. William Dinkins disappears from Williamsburg in the early 1740’s to 1746, when he sold his land and is said he joined his relatives in North Carolina. However, before their move to North Carolina, records state that: William Dinkins, son of William Dinkins Sr. and Sarah Tompkins, was born on 18 May 1746 in Craven, South Carolina and died on 26 Feb 1818 in Camden District, South Carolina at the age of 71. From records obtained, the Dinkins family name does no appear in Craven County again until 1764. Land plats for Dinkins before Revolution in South Carolina Historical Com., records indicate that “all of these came in from North Carolina.” Joshua 1764 - 61 acres in Craven County William 1764 - 200 acres in Craven County According to “Historical Sketches of Sumter County”, William Dinkins (1746-1818) married first in 1768, Sarah Wright, daughter of William and Sarah (Patterson) Wright, all of the Stateburg area of Sumter County. After the death, in 1791, of his first wife, William Dinkins married Nancy Smart and moved to Georgia. However, it is stated that he was buried in Sumter County, in the Wright-Dinkins-Atkinson Cemetery. William and Sarah (Wright) DInkins had five children: Samuel (1769-1825) unmarried; Asa (born in 1771), married Mary Anne Jennings: William and Wright P., both of whom died as infants; and Sarah who died unmarried. Asa Dinkins was born on 1 Aug 1771 in Sumter, South Carolina, and died on 15 Nov 1819 at the age of 48. Asa and his wife Mary Anne Jennings had 11 childen, one of which was Larkin T. Dinkins. Mary Anne Jennings, born 23 Oct 1775 and died 27 Dec 1836. From the Bible owned by Miss Countney Atkinson, RFD No. 1, Rembert, South Carolina. Larkin T. DInkins died on 4 Mar 1854, Sumter County, South Carolina. He married on 17 Jan 1833 in Richland County, South Carolina to Frances A. McLaughlin. Larkin and Frances had nine children, one of which was John D. Dinkins, born 28 Jun 1836. John D. Dinkins was never married. However, he did have children, Pinkney Dinkins being one. Pinkney Dinkins is my great-grandfather. South Carolina Death Index 1915-1949, certificate number 94958, volume 4; states that John Dinkins and Catherine Dinkins are the parents of Pinkney Dinkins. Galloway reported the death and Thomas M. Moore MD of Horatio, recorded the death. Pinkney Dinkins was born May 1855, he died on 12 May 1924 in Manning, South Carolina. The service was held 13 May 1924. Pinkney is buried in the Rafting Creek Baptist Church Cemetery at the rear middle of the cemetery. Pinkney had three siblings, Phyllis, James and John. These siblings are listed in the Montgomery-Dinkins-Sheriff-Conyers Family Tree. They are children of his father John Dinkins. His mother, Katherine, had only one child, Pinkney. Pinkney Dinkins first married Rebecca Gray. They were married about 1875. They had 10 children. Census records of 1900 indicates that Pinkney and Rebecca had been married 25 years at the time of the census. Records show they had 12 children, of which nine were living. Hodge Dinkins was listed as a 14-year-old. Entries also show that Pinkney could read and write. Most children, as well as Rebecca, could not read and/or write. Birth dates for the children were taken from the 1900 census. Also living in the household was William, a nephew. Wheeler, he was born on 15 May 1877 and died Oct. 1963. Linda Jane, she was born Oct 1879 in Rembert, South Carolina. Rush, he was born Feb 1883. Hodge, he was born Apr 1886 in Rembert, South Carolina. He died on 25 Jul 1959 in Rembert, South Carolina. Eugene, he was born Jul 1889. Bruce, he was born Oct 1891. Neason, he was born Jan 1893, he died Sep 1959 in Manning, South Carolina. Walter, he was born May 1895. Laura, she was born Jan 1898. Jane Dinkins, she was born 1880. Rebecca was born Jan 1860, burial was in the Dinkins Family burial site, Highway 261. It is located on the right of the entrance to Bethesda United Methodist Church. The site is not marked, however many family members know where it is. There also, is a slave cemetery adjacent to the Dinkins Family burial site, which is also unmarked. After the death of his first wife, Pinkney married Mary Chestnut. She was born abt. 1886. Pinkney Dinkins and Mary Chestnut had 12 children. Polian, Durrey, Katherine, Lizzy, Walter, Monroe, Galloway, Mike, Pinkney, Nicien, Willie, and N. M. Dinkins. Pinkney fathered a total of 22 children. Hodge Dinkins. He was born Apr 1886 in Rembert, South Carolina. He died on 25 Jul 1959 in Rembert, South Carolina. My grandfather married Leacy Miller, she is the duaghter of Issac Miller and Lucy Scott. She was born 1886 in Rembert, South Carolina. She died 1965 in Sumter, South Carolina. To this union 17 children were born. Issac, Rebecca, Rita, Lucille, Marshall, Louise, Edward, Edmonia, Paul, Sillas, Laura, Edgar, Millie, Dora, Lucy, Alice, and Pinkney Dinkins. We know that there once was a photo of our great-grandfather Pinkney and if anyone has information on the photo please contact us. www.hodgedinkinstree.org Thank you, Historical Society (Genealogical) for this wonderful opportunity to share our genealogy with you. In closing, I would like to acknowledge without naming everyone that have researched and compiled information and documents that has helped in bringing this genealogy together. From our beginning in Ireland to our present, there is a lot more information compiled on the Dinkinses. This is just a small portion on Pinkney Dinkins. It is a part of a much larger family unit whose ancestors landed in Charlestown, South Carolina on 19 Oct 1717 from Ireland. At this time I would like to acknowledge my sister Dr. Julia M. Dinkins, who lives in Maryland. She worked tirelessly in bringing this heritage to this point and continues to seek additional information to help strengthen the family. A History of the Dinkins Family, The Pinkney Dinkins Branch. | |
| Occupation | farmer [2] | |
| Occupation | farmer [2] | |
| _UID | DEA84EC6A8DF48638A622D2B3517265ADC6C | |
| _UID | DEA84EC6A8DF48638A622D2B3517265ADC6C | |
| Death | 12 May 1924 | Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina [5] |
| Burial | 13 May 1924 | Rafting Creek Baptist Churchyard Cemetery, Hwy 521, Rembert, South Carolina [6] |
| Person ID | I271338 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 17 Apr 2012 | |
| Father | John D./W. DINKINS, b. 28 Jun 1836 d. Aug 1883 or later | |
| Mother | C/Katherine | |
| _UID | 38349D9FE5694011923D95A9970BA90AA96C | |
| _UID | 38349D9FE5694011923D95A9970BA90AA96C | |
| Family ID | F186422 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 | Rebecca GRAY, b. Jan 1855/1858/60, Stateburg/Raften/Rafting Creek, Sumter County, South Carolina bur. Dinkins Family burial site, Highway 261, Bethesda United Methodist Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marriage | 1877 [5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Family ID | F182580 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Family 2 | Mary CHESTNUT, b. Abt 1886 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Family ID | F186421 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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