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Descendants of George Brinsfield
9.REV. GEORGE WASHINGTON5 BRINSFIELD (CLEMENT4, JOHN3, JAMES2, GEORGE1) was born May 16, 1799 in Guilford County North Carolina, and died February 26, 1907 in Arkansas.He married (1) MARTHA PLEDGE.He married (2) SARAH FOUNTAIN.He married (3) CHARITY SKIPPER November 30, 1836.
Notes for REV. GEORGE WASHINGTON BRINSFIELD:
Centennial History of Arkansas Methodism, Illustrated
Chapter XL
EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE
The Oldest Methodist Preachers Who Ever Lived
It would be some distinction for any State to have been the home of the oldest Methodist preacher that ever lived. It is a distinction still more unique to have been the home of the two oldest that ever lived. It is probable that Arkansas has such distinction. We herewith present these venerable gentlemen, Rev. George Washington Brinsfield, who lived to be 108 years old, and Rev. Thomas Hardester Tennant, who lived to be 114 years old, each having lived from young manhood in Arkansas.
George Washington Brinsfield
This venerable patriarch was born May 16, 1799, and was therefore 107 years, nine months, and eleven days old at the time of his death, near Huron, Izard County, February 26, 1907. His early boyhood was spent in Guilford County, N. C.
In 1818 he was married to Miss Charity Skipper, and to them were born six children. His wife having died, he married a second time, and of this union eight children were born.
Mr. Brinsfield joined the Methodist Church when he was only twenty-one years of age, and was soon after licensed to preach, and as a local preacher had been active in the work of his Church until the last two or three years when his great age forced him to relinquish his arduous duties.
Of the descendants of this good man now living, there are fifty grandchildren, eighty-seven great-grandchildren, twelve great-great-grandchildren.
Although a man in the humble walks of life, the people who knew him best delighted to honor him, and now that his long pilgrimage is ended he is mourned by countless numbers to whom his gentle, peaceful presence was a benediction.
When he was seventy-eight years old, a county newspaper, The Monitor, gleaned from him the following story. It said:
"Mr. Brinsfield was born in North Carolina seventy-eight years ago, but removed to the north end of Izard County, near Wild Cherry, forty years ago, and has resided in that locality ever since. He says game used to be more plentiful than it is now, and that during his life he has killed more than three thousand deer.
"About twenty-five years ago," he said in talking, "I was out hunting in a deep snow and shot and stunned a large deer, dropping him in his tracks. Going up to the deer, I took hold of his hind leg, whereupon he immediately jumped up and ran off. I held on like grim death, and he dragged me about eighty yards down the hillside, leaving a track in the snow similar to where they dragged a big pine saw log through the sand to Benbrook's mill. I expected every instant to be butted against a tree and killed; but coming to a log the deer jumped over, but by good fortune I didn't. I still held fast, because I had started in to win. Reaching around to my shot pouch, I got hold of a little old shoe knife which I used to cut bullet patching with, and I cut his hamstring. The minute the knife touched him he jerked loose and ran. I followed him all day, and simply worried him out, and late in the evening I knocked him in the head with a pineknot and carried him in home."
In his younger days he was a powerful man, and even now he does lots of work and frequently spends a whole night trampling through the woods coon-hunting. "It frets me", says he sometimes, "when I try to do things that I used to do, and learn that I am not as strong as I once was. I sometimes shoulder back-logs that I can't get up with."
He was a crack shot with either shotgun or rifle and invariably carried his gun with him. He has been seen sitting on top of a wagon loaded with deer to the top of its sideboards.
The following notice of him appeared in the Arkansas Gazette twenty-five years ago.
George Washington Brinsfield, the oldest preacher in the world, who lived near Huron, Izard County, celebrated his 107th birthday anniversary on May 16. He always attended the Annual Conferences of his Church, and when he was one hundred years old walked from his home to Batesville, distant fifty miles, to attend the Conference at that place. Early in 1820 he joined the Methodist Church and was licensed as an exhorter shortly thereafter.
One of his daughters, Mrs. M. F. Kamkey, now living at Wideman, Ark., has co-operated in furnishing the data here given the author, through Rev. J. F. Jernigan.
Child of GEORGE BRINSFIELD and MARTHA PLEDGE is:
i. | MAHALA6 BRINSFIELD, b. Abt. 1863. |
Children of GEORGE BRINSFIELD and CHARITY SKIPPER are:
13. | ii. | ZACHARIAH6 BRINSFIELD, b. Abt. 1836, Georgia. | |
14. | iii. | SIMPSON BRINSFIELD, b. Abt. 1838. |
10.SIMPSON B.5 BRINSFIELD (CLEMENT4, JOHN3, JAMES2, GEORGE1) was born Abt. 1810.He married NANCY1,2.
Child of SIMPSON BRINSFIELD and NANCY is:
i. | JAMES6 BRINSFIELD3,4,5, b. 1849, Georgia5. |
11.ELIJAH5 BRINSFIELD (ELIJAH4, ELIJAH3, JAMES2, GEORGE1) was born 1818 in Dorchester county Maryland.He married (1) SARAH HURLEY.She was born 1827.He married (2) MARY KNOWLES.He married (3) KITTY THOMPSON January 27, 1830.She was born in Dorchester county Maryland.
More About ELIJAH BRINSFIELD:
Ancestral File Number: BXK7-L36
More About SARAH HURLEY:
Ancestral File Number: BXK7-M86
Children of ELIJAH BRINSFIELD and SARAH HURLEY are:
15. | i. | GEORGE D.6 BRINSFIELD, b. December 24, 1844, East New Market, Dorchester; d. November 20, 1919, East New Market, Dorchester. | |
ii. | MARY BRINSFIELD, b. 1847. | ||
16. | iii. | DENNARD HICKS BRINSFIELD, b. September 27, 1849, Talbott County, Maryland, USA; d. May 17, 1925, Talbott County, Maryland, USA. | |
iv. | JANE BRINSFIELD, b. 1851. | ||
v. | SANDY BRINSFIELD, b. 1855. | ||
17. | vi. | DANIEL HOUSTON BRINSFIELD, b. 1860; d. 1946. | |
vii. | SARAH BRINSFIELD, b. 1861. | ||
viii. | ANN BRINSFIELD, b. 1864. | ||
ix. | REBECCA BRINSFIELD, b. 1867. |
Child of ELIJAH BRINSFIELD and MARY KNOWLES is:
x. | JAMES6 BRINSFIELD, b. September 12, 1847, El Dorado Maryland; d. June 24, 1920, El Dorado Maryland. |
Children of ELIJAH BRINSFIELD and KITTY THOMPSON are:
xi. | THOMAS6 BRINSFIELD, b. 1831; d. 1880. | ||
xii. | MARGARET ELIZABETH BRINSFIELD, b. Abt. 1833; d. Abt. 1880; m. JOHN SPENCER. | ||
18. | xiii. | JULIANN BRINSFIELD, b. Abt. 1835; d. WFT Est. 1871-1934. | |
xiv. | WILLIAM BRINSFIELD, b. 1840. |
12.WILLIAM HOWARD5 BRINSFIELD (ELIJAH4, ELIJAH3, JAMES2, GEORGE1) was born April 24, 1821, and died May 31, 1881.He married MARY CROPPER April 12, 1846.She was born January 28, 1824, and died March 24, 1890.
Children of WILLIAM BRINSFIELD and MARY CROPPER are:
i. | ELIAS NEWTON6 BRINSFIELD, b. June 19, 1847; d. February 04, 1850. | ||
19. | ii. | ZORBABLE HUDSON BRINSFIELD, b. December 05, 1849; d. 1932. | |
iii. | MARY AMANDA BRINSFIELD, b. Abt. 1851. | ||
iv. | LAURA BRINSFIELD, b. January 11, 1852; d. September 28, 1854. | ||
v. | SARAH ELLEN BRINSFIELD, b. October 04, 1854. | ||
vi. | CORA BRINSFIELD, b. April 01, 1857. | ||
vii. | WILLIAM WINFIELD BRINSFIELD, b. April 22, 1863. | ||
viii. | FLORENCE BRINSFIELD, b. June 18, 1866. |