Henry Harrison Vinson was my gg-grandfather. He and his siblings were orphaned prior to 1850. After the war, he married Mary Lucinda (Smith) Butler in Lauderdale County, MS. They moved to Choctaw County, AL where they lived until 1875 when they moved along with the families of two of her sisters, Sylvia Smith Clark and Amanda Smith Ritchie, to Port Sullivan, Milam County, Texas. Their extended families then moved to Ellis County, Texas after 1900. According to his State of Texas Death Certificate, his father was named H.H. Vinson. If correct, then we might have a Sr. and Jr. attached to their names. We are about 99.9% certain that his grandmother was Casandra (MNU) Vinson who was enumerated living next door to William Smith in Bibb County, AL in 1840 Census. William Smith was the father of Wilkin Smith who married Martha Susan Broadhead and were parents of H.H. Vinson, Jr's wife, Mary Lucinda Smith. Casandra's daughter, Jemima, married Enoch Rigden and both families moved to Talladega County, AL prior to the 1850 Census. Research shows multiple marriages between Vinsons and Smiths, Broadheads, Pearsons and Coopers as they migrated between Bibb, Shelby, and Talladega Counties in Alabama and Lauderdale and Clarke Counties in Mississippi. Henry Harrison, William Riley and Thomas L. Vinsons of the Alabama 40th Regiment were living with their aunt Jemima Rigden in Talladega County in 1850 just two doors from Casandra Vinson and her younger children still at home.
1850 Talladega Dist, Talladega County, Alabama
235 Vincent, Cassandra 53 1797 F NC (Surname Vinson)
Sarah 32 1818 F GA
Polly 28 1822 F GA
Nathan 24 1826 M GA
William M. 18 1832 M GA
237 Rigdon, Enoch 23 1827 M AL
Jemima 27 1823 F GA
Quince Ann 4 1846 F AL
James W 1 1849 M AL
Vinsant, Thos W 16 1834 M AL (Thomas L. W. Vinson)
Will R C 12 1838 M AL (William Riley Vinson)
Quince Ann 10 1840 F AL (Quince Ann Frances Vinson)
Henry R 8 1842 M AL (Henry Harrison Vinson)
Parilee 4 1846 F AL (Parilee Jane Vinson)
In 1853, William M. Vincent (1832), son of Cassandra Vincent in dwelling 235, married Elizabeth Broadhead, a first-cousin of Mary Lucinda Smith and niece of her mother Martha Broadhead Smith. Elizabeth was the daughter of Felix Broadhead who was living in Bibb County, Alabama in 1840. William M. Vincent served in the Civil War and after the War, in 1866, he divorced Elizabeth Broadhead and married the widow, Rebecca Smith Watson, the younger sister of Mary Lucinda Smith. This was two years before his nephew, Henry Harrison Vinson, married Mary Lucinda Smith.
Thomas L. W. Vinson married Mary Broadhead, sister of Elizabeth Broadhead who married his uncle William M. Vinson. Since Mary Broadhead was only 17 years old, her father Felix had to go before the county clerk and sign his authorization for the marriage. The person transcribing the marriage records got the authorization affidavit confused with a marriage record and entered her father's name in place of the bride's name. The on-line marriage records for Mississippi at Familysearch.org do not include the document images. Felix Broadhead was living in Clarke County, MS at the time of the 1850 Census. I suspect that Casandra Vinson and her family moved to Clarke County, MS after 1850 and Casandra died prior to 1860. Many of these Broadheads and Vinsons moved to Choctaw County, AL prior to 1860 which is where we find 19 year old H.H. Vinson boarding and listed as a student.
"Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911"
Name Thomas L. W. Vinson
Spouse Felix Broadhead (Mary Broadhead, b. 1838)
Date 11 May 1855
Place Clarke County, Mississippi
GS Film 890132