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MY STORY Page one For the benefit of those who have a
copy or have read "The House Of Pinnell," I being the youngest of the union of
Lunsford Lane Pinnell and Vina (Skaggs) Pinnell will try to fill in some of the It will be my endeavor to put on record some of the happenings as I remember them. These may or may not be in sequence but they will be facts. Some of what I may say may have been told to me, others are facts that I remember and happened to me. As is stated in the history, I was born in Buckner, Jackson Co., Mo., on Jan. 18, 1903. Some of my brothers told me later that Mother had pancakes for breakfast and then had me for supper. At the age of our Mother at the time of my birth, I just barely made it. And then too, the Missouri River Flood of that year, also spared me. From there, I am told that when I was
one year old and living in Newtonia,
It hasn't been too many years ago that I, along with brothers Hal, George, Ira and our brothers in law, Bill Wallace (who joined the family some years before this trip) visited the church at Newtonia where our father preaches. Those who remembered the church said that the huge tall backed chairs in the pulpit were the same ones that were there at the time our father was pastor there. And now as I was growing older, I recall several of the town where we lived and Dad preached. Especially, I remember the town of Arrow Rock, Salina Co., Mo. The town
now is mostly a National
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