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Thomas A. Pinner, a resident of the Fifth District, is engaged in cotton-ginning and farming, is a son of S. H. and M. E. (Yount) Pinner, and was born in Arkansas in 1853. Of a family of eight children, seven are living. The father was of Irish ancestry, born in Augusta, Ga., in 1818; was raised and educated in that State, and came to Tipton County in 1844. January, 1848, he married, and in 1850 went to Arkansas and remained six years; then returned to Tipton County, locating in the Fifth District, and farmed there until his death, March 30, 1882. He served in the war against the Seminole Indians in 1836 and 1837, and was in the civil war two years, enlisting under Capt. Browder in 1801. The mother was born in Giles County in 1823, and is still living with our subject. Both parents were members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Thomas Pinner was chiefly educated at Crofton. April 18, 1875, he married Mary J., daughter of Stephen and Rebecca Terry, of Tipton County: and they have had six children: Mary Alice, William Alex., Claudius, Augustus, Sidney Harris, Benjamin Franklin, and Maggie Lee, born February 24, 1878, and died September 18, of same year. Since his marriage Mr. Pinner has been a resident of his present farm in the Fifth District, except in 1870, when he was in Arkansas. His farm is three and a half miles southeast of Randolph. He owns 700 acres of good land, and is extensively engaged in cotton-ginning. He has recently formed a partnership with his brother, G. F. Pinner, in the home farm and stock. In 1883 and 1884 he studied medicine under Dr. Shelton, of the Fifth District, but his other duties have prevented him from practicing. Politically, Mr. Pinner is a Democrat, his first vote being for S. J. Tilden. Mr. and Mrs. Pinner are active members of the Missionary Baptist Church, he being a deacon in it, and also president of the Y. M. C. A., at Poplar Grove Church. He was twice married, first, in 1845, to Miss Margaret Forbes, who died about 1846; they had one child that died. Mr. Pinner has by good management proved a successful business man; is well informed, upright in his dealings, and of a genial disposition.