Posted By:	Doyleen Turner
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	Subject:	Re: James Quinton, b. SC early 1800s
	Post Date:	September 11, 2005 at 06:36:17
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/quinton/messages/498.html
	Forum:	Quinton Family Genealogy Forum
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Shelli....thank you so much for responding to my query. I do believe we are distant cousins connecting to SAMUEL QUINTON born in 1762. Since finding out I had QUINTON family just two weeks ago (quite by accident on a trip to Mena, Ark.), I have been searching everywhere I could, plus I have read most all of the messages on the Quinton family trying to find my connection backwards from great grandmother Martha Jane (Quinton) Winton. I have been wondering how I might tie in with the Oklahoma Quintons that I have read about. It appears your WILLIAM A. QUINTON was a brother to my JAMES QUINTON. Let me tell you how I have connected Martha Jane to James Quinton (b. 1803 in S.C.). First of all, I found out Martha Janes' maiden name quite by accident as no one at any of our Winton reunions knew her last name and I had no family records. Martha Quinton and George Winton were named as parents of my grandfather, George T. (Dink) Winton, on his Beasly-Wood Funeral Home ledger sheet in Mena, Arkansas. Martha and new husband George Winton are on the 1850 Polk Co. Ark census, so she had left home at least by that date. In searching the 1850 census for Quinton families in the area that I had hoped to connect her to, I found a couple of families that could have had a 17 year old daughter that had already married. I settled on the JAMES QUINTON household because the 1840 census for Sevier Co. Ark, gives children whose birth years match the tracking onto the 1850 family of James, with an older girl child gone from home. NOTE HERE: There was a Mary Ann Tucker in the James' 1850 household....AND....there was a Lurena Tucker (2 yrs) next door in the SAMUEL/Jane QUINTON household. I wondered at the time what a 2 yr old baby was doing next door from it's probable mother, unless of course she was visiting her grandparents OR great grandparents. Please NOTE, Samuel (b. 1762) was STILL ALIVE in 1850 at census time. He did NOT die in 1849 as I have read across several messages, although I did read a few messages correcting the 1849 date. He was 88 years old and according to the census, Samuel was born in 1762. Anyway, the speculation on Martha Jane being a daughter of James Quinton was only that to begin with. I then went to the Mena Courthouse and found definate PROOF of the tie between Martha (b. 1833) and James Quinton (b. 1803). I found two land transactions (with exact descriptions of the land) between James Quinton and the government, one in 1849, the other in 1859. I also picked up land deeds where siblings were re-distributing the land belonging to Nathaniel, deceased. Names included Martha, Mary Ann, and Joel (and gave their spouses' names. I first thought Nathaniel was their father, HOWEVER, they did have a brother named Nathaniel (1850 census)AND the land descriptions were the EXACT descriptions of the land James had obtained from the government. I have more documents that tie to this family, but that is enough to let you know I believe we do connect, back at Samuel (b. 1762). Thanks for writing. Doyleen