This is an excerpt of the book....
From "The History of Craighead County, Arkansas" by Harry Lee Williams,
first published 1930, published by the Craighead County Historical Society,
pg. 470.

Marion Pinkney Thomas came to Craighead County from Cross County
in 1878 and first settled in the Mangrum settlement. He married Millie Louise Hunt,
who died in 1918. He is still living at the age of 89,(this was approximately 1930)
and has ten grandchildren living, 50 grandchildren, 110 great grandchildren and
5 great, great grandchildren. George Chrisco and family came to Buffalo Island at
the time Mr. Thomas was located there.

Pink Thomas was born in Alabama on November 10, 1841. His family moved to
Mississippi between 1844 and 1850, and then moved to St. Francis County,
Smith Twp, Arkansas between 1855 and 1857.

Pink enlisted in the Confederate Army on July 20, 1862 in St. Francis County,
Arkansas by J.A. Riggs as a Private in Company C 23rd Arkansas Infantry. He
was captured on July 9, 1863, and paroled on July 10, 1863 at Port Hudson,
Louisiana. He was honorably discharged on July 11, 1863. Applied for a Civil
War pension on Aug. 4, 1904, Craighead County, Arkansas . Veteran Number 16744.
Pink then returned home to Arkansas. In 1870, Pink and his wife, Millie Louise
were living in Brushey Lake Twp., Cross County, Arkansas.

Cross County was formed in 1862 from part of St. Francis County, Arkansas.
In 1878, Pink, Millie, and their children moved to Buffalo Island, Craighead County,
Mangrum Community, Arkansas. Pink worked as a farmer and lived to be 90 years
old. His grave marker in the Black Oak Cemetery reads "PINK" County C 23 Ark Inf.

Pink Thomas moved to Arkansas from Pontotoc County, Mississippi between
1850 and 1860. The family lived in Alabama before moving to Mississippi.

This information is provided by Robert J. Manis of Arkansas, also a descendant
of Pink Thomas.

His grave marker in the Black Oak Cemetery reads "PINK" County C 23 Ark Inf.