from History of Warren County, Iowa (Des Moines: Union Historical Co., 1879)
TINCHER, B.W., farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. St. Charles; born in Clark county, Kentucky, March 7, 1823; when twelve years of age he removed with his parents to Hendricks county, Indiana, and was married in that county July 13, 1845, to Miss Phebe L. Clampitt, a native of that county; they have six children living: Rebecca J., Cynthia A. (now Mrs. A. Gough, of Madison county), Olive O., Francis M., William A. and Rosetta O., having lost four: Mary C., Elizabeth P., John W. and Ida May. Mr. Tincher removed to this county in 1855 and engaged in farming, following that occupation until January, 1865, when he enlisted in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, participated in the siege of Spanish Fort, was discharged with his regiment at Davenport September, 1865. Mrs. Tincher died April 21, 1866. He took for himself for second wife Miss Mahala Knott, a native of Kentucky; Mr. Tincher is a genial, hospitable gentleman, respected by all his neighbors.