Toney Lowe Pinson

   Cause of his death was heart attack.⁹

   Another name for Toney was Tony.

  General Notes:

Dad lived with the Jordans and they had a farm at Jordania so I guess he knew about farming from that but he worked on the locks until he bought the farm in Cheap Hill. I don't remember how many of the Jordans are still there but we should go see the farm if we have time. I don't know how many are still living but the ones he liked the most, and the ones who used to visit Mother and Daddy the most were Lester and Betty.

Daddy was a guard in a rock quarry and he fell and his gun went off and shot him in the leg. Later he said, "there was this black convict and I would have died if it weren't for him." Aunt Grace used to go out to St. Thomas Hospital and sit with him. His wound never really set up and he was a long time getting over that. The back of his heel was always real rough and he would soak that heel in a big pan of hot suds and I was the only one of the kids who would take this brush and rub that and get it all smoothed off.

He was very strict, I guess with five girls he needed to be. Boy, he really believed in telling the truth and doing what was right. He was Deputy Sheriff one time, I don't know how long, in Cheatham County. He was also in the Ku Klux Klan. Mother didn't like that. She hated washing that outfit and we knew better than to touch any part of that. He was a Mason… Jack had his ring.

Daddy was in his chair by the fire after breakfast. He had been dressed and out to work that morning as usual. Mother was in the kitchen. She thought he had gone to sleep in his chair as he always did. She went in there and he was gone. [Elizabeth Pinson Daugherty] ^{10 11}

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth, 25 Feb 1875, , Dickson, Tennessee, USA. ¹²

• Occupation: Lockmaster at Lock 7 and Lock A, Abt 1895-1915, Neptune, Cheatham, Tennessee, USA. ¹³

• Occupation: farmer, Abt 1915-1955, Neptune, Cheatham, Tennessee, USA. ¹⁴

• Obituary: the Nashville Banner, 28 Mar 1955, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA. ¹⁵  
Tony Lowe Pinson
Rites Set Tuesday

 
Funeral services for Tony Lowe Pinson, 80, of Neptune, Tenn., will be held at 3 p. m. Tuesday at the Clifton Methodist Church with the Rev. Wendell Meigs officiating. Burial will be in Smith Cemetery, Neptune.

Mr. Pinson died of a heart attack Saturday morning at his home.
 
Born in Dickson County, he had lived in Neptune 35 years. For many years until his retirement Mr. Pinson had been lockmaster at Locks 7 and A. He was a Mason and a member of the Clifton Methodist Church.
In 1910 he married Miss Sally Tyree, who survives.

Other survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Earl Hewitt, Thomasville, Mrs. C. H. Dunn, Nashville, Mrs. Ruth O'Dell and Mrs. Paul Osborne, both of Oak Ridge; a son, Kenneth Pinson, Nashville; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Schockely and Miss Grace Pinson; a brother, Bill Pinson, all of Nashville; and 11 grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Earl Hewett, Charlie Dunn, Paul Osborne, A. J. Shores, Jack Dunn and E. H. O'Dell. [The Nashville Banner]

• Cemetery: Neptune-Smith Cemetery, 29 Mar 1955, Neptune, Cheatham, Tennessee, USA. ⁴  
     PINSON
    TONEY L
1875 — 1955

Toney married Sarah Elizabeth Tyree, daughter of Robert Andrew Tyree and Mary Elizabeth McClure, on 23 Nov 1910 in Carthage, Smith, Tennessee, USA.¹ (Sarah Elizabeth Tyree was born on 01 Dec 1888 in Plunketts Creek, Smith, Tennessee, USA,^{16 4 17 18} died on 03 Sep 1977 in Ashland City, Cheatham, Tennessee, USA ^{4 19} and was buried on 04 Sep 1977 in Neptune, Cheatham, Tennessee, USA ^{20 4 21}.)

  Marriage Notes:

Hester and I were born in Smith County but the rest were born at Cheap Hill. Daddy was born in Dickson County and mother was born somewhere else. I don't know where Plunkets Creek is but both of them were not born there. Mary Elizabeth, my Grandmother, lived with us as long as I remember. I'll bet Lester is still living. He and Daddy were always the closest and he and Betty always came to visit. They used to live across the street from Helen and her family.

Daddy always wore a black Stetson hat. Whenever the kids wanted to get something from him they would send me in to ask him. They always thought he thought the most of me. He was strict on us because he had five girls. He didn't have a life to live. My Dad did like to hunt. That is what he would do to relax. He liked to squirrel hunt best. When Daddy would come in with the squirrels I was the one who always helped him skin 'em. (Lydia made a face at this and Liz said, "you should have seen grandmother kill chickens.")

Daddy leased river bottomland where he grew corn and he had tobacco and hay on the farm. He cured his own tobacco. He used to raise soybeans on the Cumberland River. And he had sorghum. Mother had a garden, she always had green beans on poles and some that she didn't stake, beets, carrots, butter beans, Crowder peas, strawberries, and rhubarb over by the fence, it came up every year. And she had a lilac tree.

He had cattle - for dairy, and maybe once a year he would sell a calf or two. He had a tractor, a rake and a mower, but he owned all of it. He had horses and a buggy before we had the car. He bought the car before we started to High School.

The Depression didn't have much impact on us. We never were without plenty of food and we never were without clothes. Of course, Mother and Granny made all our clothes. [Elizabeth Pinson Daugherty] ²²