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Henry County, Kentucky, merchant. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Tinsley. Married to Nancy Elizabeth Goodridge Tinsley in Shelby County in 1852. Father of John E. Tinsley and Lou Ella Tinsley. Store clerk in Trimble County from 1840 to 1849. Store owner with the aid of Morris Thomas in Eminence, Kentucky, in 1850. Engaged in business with B. F. Guthrie in 1852. Merchant in Henry County in 1860.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 147.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 784.

Find A Grave, "Judge Richard L. Tinsley (August 8, 1824-January 2, 1903)," Memorial #28414998, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28414998 (accessed August 2, 2018).

Citation

Tinsley, Richard L.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214799 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
R. L. Tinsley, H. C. Ellis, and Newton Bright to Thomas E. Bramlette
1864
Correspondence
Robert B. Gray et al. to James F. Robinson and John W. Finnell
1863-06-01

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