Caroline Louise PINNEY

1838 - 1906  (68 years)

• Name	Caroline Louise PINNEY
  Birth	5 Feb 1838	CT
  Gender	Female
  Death	2 Jun 1906	West Liberty, IA
  Person ID	I1002	Descendants of Francis Barnard
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2026

  
  

  Father	Anson PINNEY
  Mother	Harriet BARNARD,   b. 23 Feb 1811, CT d. 29 Mar 1896, Iowa City, IA (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	17 Feb 1836
  Family ID	F422	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Thomas SINGLETON
  Marriage	14 Sep 1857	Johnson Co., IA
  Children	+ 1. Clay Crittenden SINGLETON,   b. 16 Aug 1858, Johnson Co., IA d. 4 Feb 1939, Bedford, IA (Age 80 years) + 2. Sarah Alice SINGLETON,   b. 12 Mar 1860   3. Charles Redman SINGLETON,   b. 23 Dec 1861   d. 3 Oct 1863, Johnson Co., IA (Age 1 year) + 4. James P. SINGLETON,   b. 15 Jan 1864, Johnson Co., IA d. 9 Apr 1909, Bedford, IA (Age 45 years) > 5. Henry W. SINGLETON,   b. 22 Sep 1867, Johnson Co., IA d. 20 Oct 1936 (Age 69 years) + 6. George A. SINGLETON,   b. 17 Nov 1869   d. 7 Jun 1944, Iowa City, IA (Age 74 years)   7. John Frank SINGLETON,   b. 29 May 1872   d. 31 Mar 1887 (Age 14 years) + 8. Laura SINGLETON,   b. 20 May 1876, Bedford, IA d. 23 Mar 1943, Iowa City, IA (Age 66 years)   9. (Baby) SINGLETON,   b. Aft 1876
  Family ID	F424	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Feb 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Caroline Louise Pinney (05 Feb. 1838 CT -- 02 June 1906 West Liberty, IA), per FTM WFT Ped. #245, Vol. #174 Caroline married John Thomas Singleton (20 Apr. 1812 Hampshire Co., VA --17 Sept. 1880 Bedford, IA), son of John Magruder Singleton and Mary Thompson, 14 Sept. 1857 Johnson Co., IA. John T. Singleton married three times; the first two wives were cousins and both of the Cresap lineage, per FTM WFT Ped. #245, Vol. #174 Dorothy Core of Arkansas, a descendant of the second wife of John T. Singleton, submitted the following to the Taylor Co., IA, history: "In obscurity rest many Iowa Pioneers of her first decade of statehood who left their descendants a heritage of freedom loving ancestors who participated in the birth of those two great documents of human history, the MagnaCarta and the Constitution of the United States. One such is JOHN THOMAS SINGLETON buried in Lexington cemetery (Bedford, Ia) who came to Iowa in 1854 and to Benton Twp., Taylor County, in the late 1870's [sic; 1870s] where he died September 26, 1880. "The first son of John Magruder and Mary Thompson Singleton, the sixty-eight years of his eventful life began April 20, 1812, in Hampshire County, (West) Virginia. [H]e was of the sixth generation to be born in America after Cromwell's exile of his Scottish ancestors, Alexander Magruder and Ninian Beall, in the 1650's [sic; 1650s]. His heritage includes that of the Scottish Clans McGregor, Bell and Campbell. His American roots were first planted in Maryland wherehis grandfather, Nathan Magruder, was a patriot of the American Revolution. "John Thomas's first marriage was to Mary Cresap, daughter of James Daniel and Abigail Cresap, in Alleghany Co., Md, September 6, 1831. His bride was a descendant of Maryland pioneer, pathfinder and Revolutionary patriot, Thomas Cresap, who hosted many notables of American history, including George Washington and Francis Asbury, at the frontier home he built in 1740 at Oldtown. Among Mary's other immigrant ancestors were Holland born Garret Van Swearingen and his French wife, Barbara de Barette, Maryland settlers in the late 1660's [sic; 1660s]. "After his father's death in 1842, John T. and Mary Cresap Singleton lived in the stone manor house of the Singleton plantation at Paddytown, VA. (now Keyser, Mineral Co., West Va.). Their five children were Mary Elizabeth, who married William Boyce and lived at Bloomington, Ill.; Ruth Cresap, who married Elias W. Jones and came to Taylor Co. in 1876; Susan Magruder, who married William Pope and lived in Scott Co., Ia; Virginia Thistle who marriedByron Gibson and lived near Iowa City; and John James, who served with the 22nd Iowa Regiment in the Civil War and diedin Muscatine Co., September 21, 1863. Mary Cresap Singleton died at Paddytown July 15, 1843. John Thomas married secondMary Jane Thistle Dawson, daughter of Thomas and Julianna Cresap Thistle, a cousin of his first wife and a widow with two small daughters, Georgianna and Ju[l]ianna Dawson. Between 1843 and 1847, John T. began his trek westward. The familylived for a time in Kentucky and Illinois before arriving in Iowa. John T. settled his large family in Johnson Co. and engaged in farming. Here Mary Jane died March 3, 1857. Four children of his second marriage were: Atlantic, born in Ky. in 1847 who married William H. Davis; Caroline Gibson born in Ky., August 29, 1849, who married George B. Pinney at IowaCity in 1871, died at Sharpsburg [N]ovember 5, 1938, and buried in Gravity Cemetery; Florence born in Illinois in 1852,and Loxley, born in Iowa in 1856 who moved to South Dakota. "On September 14, 1857, John T. married Caroline L. Pinney,daughter of Anson and Harriett Pinney. Their eight children were born before the move to Taylor Co.: Clay Crittenden born August 16, 1858, who married Sinah B. Wysong and lived at Bedford; Sarah Alice born March 12, 1860, who married Scott[A]lcorn and lived in OK; Charles Redman who died in infancy; James Pinney born January 15, 1864, who married Edna DeForest; Henry W. born September 22, 1867 and moved to South Dakota; George A. born November 17, 1869, who married Annie Fountain; John Frank born May 19, 1872 and died young; and Laura Belle born May 30, 1876, who married Robert Chase and lived near West Liberty, Ia. "Caroline Pinney Singleton returned with her younger children to Johnson Co. following her husband's death in 1880. [T]here she died June 2, 1906. "The patriarch John Thomas Singleton, thrice married, father of seventeen children and two step-daughters, descendant of Scottish kings, Barons of Runnymede and of the self-reliant, independent patriots who forged the foundations of the American Republic...impacts more on today's Taylor Co. through his numerous descendants than did his short mortal tenure."-- per FTM WFT Ped. #245, Vol. #174