Jones County, TX - Obituary - Joe G. Pinkston **************************************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************************** The Jones County Observer Anson, Jones County, Texas Friday, April 26, 1940 Joe G. Pinkston, resident of Hawley for 55 years and the man who obtained the first marriage license issued in Jones county died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Annie B. Babcock, at Everett, WA. Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Hawley Baptist church. Burial in the Hawley cemetery. Pinkston was born near Grove Springs, MO, August 26, 1861. He came to Texas at that age of 14, settling on the Pecan Bayou in Callahan County. From there he moved to Taylor county two years later and worked on a ranch on Cedar Creek near Abilene. In 1879 he moved to Jones county, two years before the county was organized, and went to work for Tom Darlington near where Hawley is now. He obtained the first marriage license in Jones county at Fort Phantom Hill, the first county seat, and was married to Maggie Thomas. Later she died, and Pinkston married Mrs. Artie Hollenbck, June 3, 1909, in Anson. She died in 1935. Pinkston had lived at Hawley for the past 55 years. He had been a member of the Methodist church for 40 years. He had gone to Washington to spend the winter with his daughter, Mrs. Babcock before Christmas. Survivors: daughters: Mrs. Babcock of Washington; Mrs. Minnie Dunagin of Wasington; 1 son: George Pinkston of Everett, WA; 1 step-daughter: Mrs. Berlin Burrow of Hawley; 1 sister of Missouri.