JOHN M. TINSLEY, Butler County, was born December 14, 1819, in Sumner County, Tenn., and is a son of Isaac Tinsley, Jr., and Charlotte Tinsley, nee Murray. The former was born in Amherst County, Va., and in early youth came with his parents to Tennessee; was soldier in the war of 1812, and took part in the battle of New Orleans. He removed to Barren County, Ky., about the year 1834, and after a number of other removals, located in Butler County in 1880 (note: this date must he an error) he died in 1858, at the age of seventy-two years. Charlotte (Murray) Tinsley was a daughter of Thomas and Hannah (Bushnell) Murray, and in her union with Isaac Tinsley, Jr., was the mother of the following children: James (deceased), Harriet L., (Holman), John M., Calvin, Thomas W., Joseph K., Christopher C. (deceased), Cynthia (Wolf, Burris and Mills), and Sophia J. (Oliver). John M. was first married in 1846, to Mrs. Lucinda Quiesenberry, nee Nichols; she was the daughter of John and Edith (Stovall) Nichols of Allen County; she was the mother of the following children: Amanda A. (Doyle), Henry C., and Emma J. (Lambert). She died in February, 1856, and Mr. Tinsley married Mary D. Landrum of Barren County; she died in July, 1858, and he married his third wife, June, 26, 1859, Lucinda A., daughter of John and Nancy (Wainscott) Watkins of Allen County, born October, 9, 1834; this union has been blessed by the birth of four children., viz.: Thomas E., Ulysses L., Isaac L., and Ida B. Mr. Tinsley is a farmer and owns 150 acres of land he has also for many years engaged in black-smithing. In politics he is independent. He is a member of the Christian Church.