Spouse & Children

Hannah C. (Emily) Uptegro.. Martha J. Pinkston (1857-1880) Mary Elizabeth Pinkston (1857-1929) John Tinsley Pinkston (1860-1918) James L. Pinkston (1862-1946) Thomas J. Pinkston (1866-1934) Dossie Benjamin Pinkston (1873-1960)

Brothers & Sisters

Lydia Pinkston (1832-1863) Sarah Pinkston (1834-1880) Nancy Pinkston (1835-1900) Mary Ann Pinkston (1838-1903) Emily Elizabeth Pinkston (1842-1921)

PINKSTON, ELIJAH (N), Companies D, C & E, corporal/pvt, enlisted for 3 years at Huntingdon, TN on 6/26/62 and mustered at Humboldt, TN on 8/11/62 at age 35. He was 5'8" tall, fair complexion, blue eyes, auburn hair, a farmer, born in Carroll Co, TN. He was due a $100 bounty for enlistment. Pinkston went AWOL from 2/17/63-5/26/63. He returned and served as an ambulance driver from 8/8/63. Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he was a prisoner in Andersonville Prison in Georgia and most likely other eastern prisons. Exchanged through North East Ferry, NC on 2/27/65, he was taken to the hospital in Jeffersonville, IN with scrobutus. He listed his nearest relative as his wife Emily of Buena Vista, TN. This appears to be Hannah Uptigrove, who he married in 1855. Pinkston was discharged at the Jeffersonville, IN military hospital on 6/1/65 and did not return to live in Carroll Co. In 1880 census, he was in Franklin Co, IL near Cave City.^{2 3 4}

Sources:

1. Ancestry.com. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
2. The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Park Service
3. Elijah Pinkston's Civil War Service Record
4. THE 7TH TENNESSEE CAVALRY USA (Originally 2nd West Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry) Peggy Scott Holley