T. M. Kinsey

Trammel Trace Tribune, April 22, 2005, page 3

Thomas Marshall Kinsey was born 14 January 14, 1879 in Ellis County, Texas and died May 5, 1960 in Rusk County, Texas. He and his wife are buried at the Tatum Cemetery at Tatum in Rusk County. After some members of the church in the Harmony Hill Community moved to Tatum, beginning in 1915 T. M. Kinsey preached to them once a month in the Methodist Church facilities – until the Methodist Church asked other denominations using their facility to find another place or other places to meet. This initial group would later found the Baptist Church at Tatum in 1917.

He pastored the Baptist Church at Whitney circa 1907, and perhaps up until the time he moved to Rusk County. At the time of his death. T. M. Kinsey was a member of the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in the Stewart Community.