When did Rhena Jasey graduate from Harvard University?”
A family reunion of descendants of the late Dr. Green Forte Pinkston of Memphis and Cordova was held recently. Pinkston, the grandson of freed Mississippi slaves, died in 1963. Five of his nine children, ranging in age from 80 to 90, survive. All five, most of their children and grandchildren and other family members converged in Memphis to celebrate the legacy of their Tennessee patriarch. They gathered at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn and the Fogelman Center, various Memphis locales, and the homes of current residents including Howard Pinkston of Cordova who still conducts farming operations on what is left of the original Pinkston farm in Cordova. Pinkston was one of the earliest African-Americans to practice medicine in Memphis. Judging from remarks of family members at the numerous events, the enduring legacy of Pinkston was one of hard work, education and family. Although only one generation removed from slavery, both Pinkston and his brother, the late Dr. Lee Gresham Pin
