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Robert Calvin Pinson, a grandson of an old Revolutionary soldier, and a son of Isaac and Rebecca (Pinson) Pinson, was born in Rockingham County, N. C., December 23, 1827, this county being the place of his parents’ nativity, his father being born in 1789, and his mother in 1790. Isaac Pinson and wife were of Scotch descent, and members of the Primitive Baptist Church. They were the parents of twelve children, four of whom are living: John (in Carroll County, Tenn.), Elizabeth (also of Tennessee), Robert C. (the principal of this sketch) and Susan. Isaac Pinson having married the second time, was the father of three children, Isaac H. and Rebecca J., still living. Robert was raised on the farm and educated in the subscription schools of Carroll County, Tenn., his parents having moved there when he was five years of age. The education which he received was limited, he being obliged to help his father on the farm. But when twenty-four, he attended school nine months, which, with the education he had received when a boy, gave him a fair knowledge of the common branches. In 1858 he was married in Henry County, Tenn., to Sarah E. Beasley, who was born in that county, in 1842, and who is a daughter of N. C. and Rebecca Beasley, natives of Tennessee and Virginia, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Pinson are the parents of eight children: Judith R., William B., Charles C, Alice (wife of Alexander Fleming), John E., Mary B., Robert C. and Isaac E. In 1873 he moved from Tennessee to Arkansas, and located in this county. In November, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate army, in Company C, Forty sixth Tennessee Infantry, in which he was made first lieutenant; serving in this capacity twelve months, he was then discharged on account of disability. Mr. Pinson owns a fine farm of 160 acres, situated about eight miles northwest of Cabot, of which he has seventy acres in cultivation. He is considered one of the prominent Democrats of his township, and a respected citizen.