Spouse & Children

Alice Church

Brothers & Sisters

Martha J. Pinkston (1857-1880) Mary Elizabeth Pinkston (1857-1929) John Tinsley Pinkston (1860-1918) Thomas J. Pinkston (1866-1934) Dossie Benjamin Pinkston (1873-1960)

Held For Clubbing Couple In Home

BENTON, Jan. 19 James L. Pinkston, 81-year-old bachelor of Royalton was near death today and Arthur Sapp, JO, an ex-circus wrestler, was herd in Franklin county jail here charged with clubbing Pinkston and a Royalton woman in whose home he roomed. State's Atty Leonard Dunn said that Sapp was arrested Saturday night a few hours after he allegedly entered the home of Mrs. Ida Harris, 52, and inflicted serious injuries on the two with an 18-inch-long club. Mrs. Harris, who is expected to recover, told authorities her assailant was intoxicated. Dunn , and Sheriff Clarence Smothers found two clubs concealed beneath the porch of the Y, M. C. A. building at Hurst- Bush, a neighboring village where Sapp lived. One of the clubs was blood-stained, Dunn said.⁵

Sources:

1. 1880 United States Federal Census, Illinois, Franklin, Cave, District 16, pg 17
2. Ancestry.com. Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
3. Ancestry.com. Illinois, U.S., Marriage Index, 1860-1920
4. Ancestry.com. Illinois, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1800-1940
5. Belvidere Daily Republican (Belvidere, Illinois) 19 Jan 1943, Tue Page 1