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Note: (Research):The Tinney's home collapsed on the early morning of March 17, 1887, due to a cyclone that hit the city. Henry P. Tinney died and Mrs. Tinney was injured. This note is mentioned both in the Tampa Tribune article on March 18th and in the diary of Roby McFarlan. According to the Tribune, the house was located at Tampa and Cass Streets. Elva Lou Burton believes that the house was on 7th Street and that the Tinneys owned property, but did not live on Cass Street. This event is also mentioned in the diary of Roby Hull McFarlan, close friend of Helen Amanda Ordway and Elva Ordway Burton.
Mr. John Tinney has resumed his old position in the store of Mesrs. Miller & Henderson. Source: The Sunland Tribune, March 23, 1882.
According to Elva Lou Burton, John lived for a while in Ozona with his brothers and used to walk the cattle from Ozona to Plant City. He had property at Cass and Tampa Streets, but lived at 7th Street in a two-story woodframe house.
Eventually John Tinney moved to 6809 Nebraska Avenue, near Sligh Avenue. He built the house himself in 1903 and in 1909 John Culpepper added electricity to the house. The house had its own well with a windmill and was surrounded by an orange grove. He was living on Nebraska at the time of the 1920 census. By this time he was a mail carrier for the U.S. post office. He became a postman about 1896. He delivered mail, mostly between the Federal Building and the Union Station, for 26 years. He retired at 65 on Wednesday, February 22, 1922. He was Tampa's first Post Office employee and second federal employee retired under the Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920.
John Tinny loved playing the fiddle and often played at home or in the orange grove.
John and Elizabeth are buried at Oaklawn East Cemetery, Plant City, Hillsborough County, Florida.
John Tinny, 94, 6809 Nebraska Ave., died today at his residence. Mr. Tinny, a native of Phillipi, Fla., was a resident of Tampa for 80 years. He is survived by one son, John C. Tinny, Tampa; two daughters, Mrs. E.O. Bruton and Mrs. G.B. Shaw, both of Tampa, and three sisters, Mrs. L.H. Eavey, Mrs. Ira Wood and Mrs. Lou Salisbury, all of Ozona; eight grandchildren and 12 Great-grandchildren.
More About JOHN CHAMPAIGN WHITE TINNY: Burial: Oaklawn Cemetery, Tampa, FL (Source: (1) Elva Burton Lee, (2) Oaklawn Cemetery Records.) Occupation: Bet. 1896 - 1922, Postman-Tampa (Source: (1) Elva Lou Burton., (2) Florida Census-1920.) Residence: 1887, 7th Avenue (Source: (1) Tampa Tribune, March 18, 1887, p. 3., Text incorrectly says house was on the corner of Cass and Tampa Streets., (2) Elva Lou Burton.)
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