Benjaminn Sinor

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 11 Oct 1850, Subdivision 26, Bradley County, Tennessee; Joel Sinor, 26, m, , farmer, 400, Tennessee, , , , , Sarah Sinor, 85, f, , , , Tennessee, , , , Nancy Davis, 8, f, , , , Tennessee, , , ,
• Census: 05 Jul 1870, Whiteville Township, Marion County, Arkansas; Post Office: Whiteville Joel Siner, 48, m, w, farmer, 500, 500, Virginia, , , , , , , , , x, x Lyda Siner, 44, f, w, keeping house, , , Tennessee, , , , , , , , , , Robert Siner, 12, m, w, , , , Tennessee, , , , , x, , x, , , , Nancy E. Siner, 11, f, w, , , , Arkansas, , , , , x, x, x, , , , Martha Siner, 8, f, w, , , , Arkansas, , , , , , , , , , , Joseofeheus Siner, 6, f, w, , , , Arkansas, , , , , Emeline Siner, 4, f, w, , , , Arkansas, , , , , Benjamin Siner, 17, m, w, , , , Tennessee, , , , , x, , x, , , ,
• Census: 1880, Whiteville, Baxter County, Arkansas; Joel SNIER Self M Male W 52 VA Farmer VA VA Lydia SNIER Wife M Female W 44 TN Keeping House SC SC Elisabeth SNIER Dau S Female W 20 AR Keeping House VA TN Josephine E. SNIER Dau S Female W 13 AR Keeping House VA TN Arminda SNIER Dau S Female W 12 AR Keeping House VA TN William Hogan SNIER Son S Male W 9 AR At Home VA TN Martin SNIER Son S Male W 6 AR At Home VA TN James GILLILAND Other S Male W 25 AL Boarder-Laborer --- ---
• Census: 04 Jun 1900, District 9, Whiteville Township, Baxter, Arkansas; Joel Sinor, head, w, m, Jan, 1822, 78, m, 40, , , Virginia, Virginia, Virginia, , , , farmer, , , yes, yes, yes, o, f, f, Lidie E. Sinor, wife, w, f, Feb, 1830, 70, m, 40, 8, 6, Tennessee, North Carolina, North Carolina, , , , , , , yes, yes, yes, William H. Sinor, son, w, m, May, 1872, 28, s, , , , Arkansas, Virginia, Tennessee, , , , farmer, 2, , yes, yes, yes Nancy Sinor, boarder, w, f, Apr, 1835, 65, w, 48, 8, 6, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, , , , , , yes, yes, yes James F. Crane, boarder, w, m, Jun, 1878, 21, s, , , , Arkansas, Illinois, Arkansas, , , , farm laborer, 2, 3, yes, yes, yes, ,, , ,

Notes:

Name:
Joel & Lydia Sinor
Added by ttnash30 on 19 Jul 2008
Originally submitted by amandag205 to Shaw / Smith Family Tree on 26 Jun 2008
Joel Sinor Born, 18 January 1822 in Bedford County, Virginia. He was one of the possible seven children of John Sinor II and Nancy (Lacy) Sinor.

Joel was ca. 10 yrs. old when his family removed to Bradley County, Tennessee.


In 1839 when Joel was 17 yrs. old a neighbor lady, Sarah Henry, a widow, told John Sinor that if his son Joel would marry her, she would deed to him her property and all of her possessions. At this time she was approximately 74 yrs. old, alone, with no family. The proposal was agreed upon and on the 28th day of March 1839, Joel Sinor and Sarah Henry was (sic) married in Greene County, Tennessee.


It is not known how many years Sarah (Henry) Sinor lived after they were married. The 1850 census of Bradley County, Tenn. lists Joel, age 26 and Sarah, age 85.


The 1860 Census of Marion County, Arkansas list, Joel Sinor, his second wife, Lydia, and son, Robert, 1 yr. old.


It is believed Joel Sinor became a Baptist Minister while living with his first wife, Sarah, in Bradley County, Tenn. He preached at a small Church in the community. It was at this Church that Joel Sinor met the young lady whom he would later marry. Lydia Ellender Felkner, lived with her parents Peter and Martha Felkner. They were elderly and she took care of them.


After the death of Sarah Sinor, possibly between the years 1855 and 1856, Joel asked Lydia Felkner to marry him and move to a growing community he had heard of near Springfield, Missouri, that needed the services of a good minister. Lydia told him she could not leave her parents, but when he found a place to come back and they would be married and she would go with him providing her parents would have a place to live also.


Joel sold all his possessions and rode his best saddle horse through Tennessee. He probably crossed the Mississippi River at Memphis where barges carried the travelers across. Joel started riding North through Arkansas. After several days he and his horse were tired and weary. Late one afternoon he started looking for a farmhouse where he could buy a meal and a place for him and his horse to spend the night. He was near the small town of Colfax, Ark., then in Marion County, later in 1874 to become a part of Baxter County. He saw a farmhouse in the distance. The Lady of the house told him she would give him a meal and he could put his horse in the barn. The woman asked him where he was going. He told her he was looking for some land to buy. She said she would sell her place, her husband had gotten in to some kind of trouble and was hiding from the law authorities in Missouri and she wanted to go to him. All she wanted to take with her was a wagon and team and their personal possessions.


Joel bought the section of land for 50 cents an acre. After making out the Deeds for the property, the woman loaded the wagon and her and four or five children left Arkansas. Joel rested for several days and then returned to Tennessee, where he and Lydia were married. When Joel, Lydia and her parents returned to Arkansas, Joel built a small house for Lydia?s parents where they spent the remainder of their lives.


The Civil Ware, that had seemed so far away, came to the farm nested in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri. They would strike any time day or night. The men hid in a cave close to the Spring where they got their drinking water. Each morning and evening when Lydia went to the Spring to get water, she would put food in a bucket and hide it near the Spring so Joel could find it and have something to eat.


The Arkansas Militia was formed to help protect the citizens in the area. Joel joined the Militia and had been away from home for several weeks, when their baby boy became sick with a high fever. Lydia was afraid to leave the house and her small children to go out in the fields searching for the herbs she needed to bring down the fever. She tried to manage with what she had but the baby died. She was almost beside herself with worry and grief. The same evening after the baby had died, she was going to the Spring for water, when she heard a low whistle. She asked who it was and a man told her he was hungry. She told him she would bring him food if he would help her bury her child. When it was completely dark the man came to the door and they wrapped the baby in blankets and carried it out in the woods. The man dug the grave and they covered it so that no one could find it.


The time of terror was finally over and Joel and Lydia could pick up their lives and start living again. Times were hard and money was scarce, so Joel returned to the Ministry. He became a Circuit Rider Preacher, riding the circuit of Southwest Missouri and Northern Arkansas. He would be gone from home weeks at a time, living out of his saddle bags and hold Revival meetings, which in those days was the biggest event in the community. The word would go out through the community that the Preacher was here and all the couples who wanted to be married should come to the Church. Several couples were married at a time because it would be several months before a Preacher would be around again.


Joel was mostly paid for his Preaching in food, chickens and canned goods. He would return home with his horse weighted down. Sometimes there wouldn?t be as much food as others. If a family was found on his circuit having a hard time he would share what he had with them. He was known and loved throughout his territory and continued riding his circuit until old age forced him to retire. He died in his home the 26th of March 1904 and was buried in the Tucker Cemetery not far from where he had settled all those years ago.


My Grandfather, Andrew Martin, said that his father, Joel, was the most patient and kind man he ever knew. But his Mother, Lydia, was a worrier. His father was always saying, ?Now Liddie everything happens for the best.? This was the saying that he lived by.


Lydia Sinor reared their children practically alone, she was resourceful and could make do with most anything. She was known throughout the community as a mid-wife and Herb doctor. She raised and gathered all the seeds and plants and stored them to dry in a small room that Joel built for her at the back of the house. It was said that she had a cure or remedy for almost every type of ailment.


Lydia corded wool, spun the yarn and would weave the material to make clothing. This material was called Linsey and you couldn?t wash it because it would shrink to half its size. To clean a garment made of Linsey you hung it on the clothes line and let it air and then brushed the stained and soiled places. In my Grandfather?s words, ?You hung it on the line to blow the stink out and the dirty places stayed until the garment wore out.? When Grandpa was close to 18 years old he started sparkin the gals. His Mother had just made him a new pair of Linsey britches. On Sunday afternoon he went sparkin to this girl?s house. To get there he had to cross a creek and when he got on the foot log to cross, his foot slipped and he fell into the water. He managed to pull himself out without too much damage. When he arrived at the gate of the girl?s house he decided he had better check his appearance. When he looked down his new Linsey britches had shrunk to above his knees. He said he turned and ran never did go back to see that girl.


My Grandfather, Andrew Martin, said that his Mother, Lydia, brought from Tennessee some seeds for some vining plants. Every year she would plant them in her garden. She would train the vines to grow over arches, around poles and along the garden fence. They would bloom and put on large red, pink and yellow fruit. She called them her ornamental plants and believed that the fruit was deadly poison, because where she came from a man had eaten some and then, broke out in a rash and died. As the fruit would ripen and eventually fall to the ground, she would throw them away and dared her children to ever take a bit of them. Her vining ornamental plants were called TOMATOES. When Grandpa married into the Reynolds family they ate this fruit, and Grandpa said he had never tasted anything as good as a ripe tomato right out of the garden. But he could never convince his Mother that they weren?t poison.


Leola (Keltner) Handy


My Mother said that when she was growing up Grandpa, Martin, would not let them move any of the furniture or change any of it around in the room. You pulled it out and cleaned and then pushed it back in place. Grandpa said when he was a boy at home the girls, his sisters, were always changing the furniture and when you came in you never knew where you would even find the Kitchen table. Even after his sisters were married they would come and help his Mother, Lydia clean house. Grandpa and Hogan were the only children at home and they shared a bedroom. Grandpa said, one night he came home and it was dark and cold and he decided not to light a lamp and wake everyone so he undressed in the dark and made a flying leap to jump in his bed. He said the bed wasn?t there and he durn near killed himself. He was so mad that the next morning he went around and got the girls and made them come over and put his bed back where it belonged.


Grandpa said that his Mother, Lydia, kept a black snake in the house to catch mice. She wouldn?t have a cat because they were so messy. Grandpa said he was forever on to her to get rid of that snake and she would say ?Now Marty you are not going to get rid of my Mouser.? Grandpa said that in the bedroom where he and Hogan slept, his bed set across a corner and that his Mother had hung her side-saddle with a rope from the ceiling. That black snake would sleep every night coiled in the plush seat of that side-saddle. Grandpa said he guessed the snake never got in bed with him because if it had he would have died of fright. Grandpa said the snake hardly ever came out in the open in the rooms, it stayed under the beds and furniture. But he said he always knew it was at the head of his bed every night.


Leola (Keltner) Handy


Note from Wanda Samuels Inglish: Leola sent a copy of the above to me in 1984. I have retyped it exactly as Leola?s typewritten copy was sent to me. Because the pages are become quite worn at the folds, from being folded and refolded numerous times over the years, I didn?t want to send it to the printer for fear it would be torn from handling. (I have now put the pages in plastic. If anyone would like a copy of the copy Leola sent to me, I will see that you get it.)

Note - Amanda Raziano retyped Wanda's letter as closely as possible to original.

Joel married Lydia Ellender Felkner about 1858 in Baxter County, Arkansas. Lydia was born on 29 Sep 1826 in Tennessee; died on 16 Apr 1909 in Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas; was buried in Tucker Cemetery, Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 09 Oct 1850, Subdivision 26, Bradley Co., Tennessee; Listed as John Sinor with wife(Nancy 60 b. VA), and 2 kids(Jackson 2, b. VA, James Sinor 17, b. TN) Farmer; : 65

Notes:

Source: Billy G. Sinor [3rd greatgrandson of John Sinor, Sr.]
John Sinor served in Capt. Pleasant M. Goggin's Company of Virginia Militia, from August 1, 1814 to Feb 10, 1815.

Land Records:: 1820, purchased 79 acres of land on Piney Mountain, Bedford Co., VA (Source: Billy G. Sinor [3rd greatgrandson of John Sinor, Sr.].)
Military service: War of 1812, VA Militia (Source: (1) Billy G. Sinor [3rd greatgrandson of John Sinor, Sr.]., (2) Lonnie Muse .)

John married Nancy Lacy on 28 Nov 1810 in Bedford County, Virginia. Nancy (daughter of Stephen Lacy and Sara ???) was born about 1790 in Virginia; died about 1870 in Marion County, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source: Billy G. Sinor [3rd greatgrandson of John Sinor, Sr.]
John Sinor elisted in the Continental Line Army on August 3, 1776, as a private and waggoner. He served at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, winter of '77, with George Washington. He was with the 1st Regiment of the Continental Line [Virginia]. His regiment fought at Brandywine, then moved to the Delaware River where they crossed and moved to Mamouth, New Jersey, and fought a big battle there on 28 June 1778. From there he fought his way north partaking of all the battles until they reached Brunswick, New Jersey, in July 1778 and was out of action until the latter part of June 1779. From there he was moved to Middlebrook, Virginia, and was discharged on 3 August 1779. [His Discharge reads exactley like mine almost 175 years later. I have a copy of his Military Record.] John Sr. was wounded twice, March 1777 and December 1778. He received $200 and 6 pounds sterling. This was given for an act of bravery.

John married Mary Whetzel. Mary was born about 1765; died about 1826 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stephen married Sara ???. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]