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Joel Sinor

Male 1822 - 1904  (82 years)    Has 8 ancestors and 68 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Joel Sinor 
    • 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.
    Birth 18 Jan 1822  Bedford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 11 Oct 1850  Subdivision 26, Bradley County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    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, ,, , ,  
    Death 26 Mar 1904  Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Tucker Cemetery, Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 8 Siblings 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Joseph Siner\Sinah,   b. Bef 1735  (Great Grandfather) 
    Sara ???  (Grandmother) 
    Person ID I4291  FeldmanTree
    Last Modified 15 Sep 2008 

    Father John Siner\Sinor, Jr.,   b. Abt 1785, Bedford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Mar 1858, Bradley County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Nancy Lacy,   b. Abt 1790, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1870, Marion County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Marriage 28 Nov 1810  Bedford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2481  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah Henry,   b. Abt 1765   d. Abt 1855, Bradley County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Marriage 01 Apr 1839  Greene County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
      Name: Joel Sinor
      Spouse: Sarah Henry
      Marriage Date: 1 Apr 1839
      Marriage County: Greene
      Marriage State: Tennessee



      Source Information:

      Ancestry.com. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008. Original data: Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, TN, USA: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Microfilm.
    Family ID F2831  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Sep 2008 

    Family 2 Lydia Ellender Felkner,   b. 29 Sep 1826, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Apr 1909, Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1858  Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Robert P. Sinor,   b. 9 Feb 1859, Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Feb 1922, Eufaula, McIntosh County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
     2. Elizabeth Sinor,   b. 1860, Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1884, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 24 years)
     3. ??? Sinor,   b. Abt 1861
     4. Martha B. Sinor,   b. 1862, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1862, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     5. Benjaminn Sinor,   b. Abt 1863
    +6. Nancy Emma Sinor,   b. 1 Jul 1863, Gassville, Marion County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Jun 1948, Florence, Pinal County, Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    ▻ William Samuel Haugh  m. 17 Jul 1879
     7. Emilene Sinor,   b. Abt 1866
    +8. Josephine E. Sinor,   b. 18 May 1866, Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1946, Wister, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    ▻ William Douglas Stacy  m. 25 Nov 1880
    +9. William Hogan Sinor,   b. 08 May 1872, Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Feb 1960, Columbus Bay, Colorado County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
    +10. Andrew Martin Sinor,   b. 28 Dec 1874, Colfax, Baxter County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 08 Jun 1954, Greenbriar, Faulkner County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    ▻ Melissa Elizabeth Reynolds  m. 25 Oct 1894
    Family ID F2480  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Sep 2008 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 18 Jan 1822 - Bedford County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 01 Apr 1839 - Greene County, Tennessee Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Abt 1858 - Baxter County, Arkansas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 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, , , , - 05 Jul 1870 - Whiteville Township, Marion County, Arkansas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 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 --- --- - 1880 - Whiteville, Baxter County, Arkansas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 26 Mar 1904 - Gassville, Baxter County, Arkansas Link to Google Earth
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