Reverend Edward Thomas Stinnette was born in Bedford County Virginia October 11, 1846 and died at his home in Moorefield Nebraska February 20, 1925 aged 78 years 4 months and 9 days. On December 21, 1865 Mr. Stinnette was married to Miss Elizabeth Morris also of Virginia. To this union were born 11 children 9 of which are still living.

In the year 1867 Mr. Stinnette and family migrated to Phelps County Missouri and resided there for 20 years. From there the family moved to [Yuma] County Colorado in 1887. In 1890 most of the family moved to Frontier County Nebraska where they have since made their home.

In Nebraska and Colorado the family has known some of the hardships of pioneer life and also have come to enjoy some of the blessings of more prosperous days. The family tree has grown until at present there are forty-six grandchildren and thirty-seven greatgrandchildren.

Mrs. Stinnette preceded her husband in death on March 22, 1920. Besides the children and their descendants mentioned, Mr. Stinnette also leaves one brother who resides in Wyoming and three sisters two of whom live in Missouri and one in Kansas. He also leaves a host of other near relatives and friends in the various places where he has lived from Virginia to Colorado.

Since early in life Mr. Stinnette has been a member of the Missionary Baptist Church and for forty years he has been a minister of the gospele in that denomination. At times Rev. Stinnette has given himself principally to the ministry. At all times he has faithfully served his brethren and neighbors as a minister as he has conceived it to be his duty. No adequate compensation has ever come to his for these services and they have often rendered as a sacrifice to him. Like other servants of God and humanity it is doubtless true of brother Stinnette that his services will not be fully appreciated or rewarded until the day when the books of God are opened on high.

In disposition, in pursuit, and in character, Rev. Stinnette has been of the partriarchial, frontiersman type which has settled our broad continent from coast to coast in the current century with all its evidences of civilization, cultivation, cities, businesses, schools and churches. His individual contribution in this great continental expansion has not been a meager one. He has won our respect in life and he has it in his death. His passing brings sorrow, and yet none of us would recall him from the reward of his full years service to which he has gone.

Funeral services were conducted in the Moorefield Union Church by the pastor, Rev. T. E. Howard. A large crowd was present. Interment was made in the Moorefield cemetery.

The Farnam Echo (16):1 Thursday, February 26, 1925