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I have some sound verified information on what you are looking for. I hope the following is helpful. I descend from James Hathaway Stinnett. James H. was born in Greene County on May 10, 1835, the son of David and Margarina Stinnett of Kentucky. David appears in the 1840 census, but is not found in the 1850. In 1850 three surviving children are found living with three separate families (the other two being Elizabeth who married a man named Fox and Nicholas Anderson). This supports an oral history from his grandson that he was orphaned. He was married on October 9, 1856 to Mary J. Ferguson. To them were born Eunice, Pleasant Moss, James A. Charles W. (my gr. grandfather), William T. and Bertha Ann. I have not been able to find anything on David or Margarina Stinnett beyond the above.
Mary J. Ferguson was the daughter James L. Ferguson (b. 1-11-1811 in Sumner County TN) and Elizabeth Mayberry (b. 12-12-1814). The Mayberrys, Fergusons and Barnards all migrated to Greene County, Ill. from Sumner County in the 1830s. There was a strong penchant for the Stinnetts, Mayberrys, Barnards, and Fergusons to inter-marry.
Pleasant Moss married Ariadna Maberry and my Gr. Grandfather married Cora Olive Maberry.
There is a history of the Barnards that can be found at http://rootsweb.com/~tnsumner/fabaj.htm It indicates a number of the inter-marriages. According to it: Margaret Barnard married Joshua Alexander Maberry in about 1820 in Sumner County; Elizabeth Barnard married William Mayberry on 17 Jan 1835 with Margaret dying in Greene County Ill. in 1883; Elisha B. Barnard marrying Mahala Maberry Barnard on 15 Feb 1843 in Greene County.
There is a rural church with a cemetary know as the Union Cemetary. It has been a number of years since I visted it, but I believe it is near Athensville or Wrights. The Stinnett and Maberry reunions were held them and I went to them when I was young. James H. and Mary J. are buried there along with ant assortment of Fergusons and Maberrys. My grandfather always told the story of how his grandfather Charles, as a young man went west to Kansas to work the wheat harvests. As he was returning he was passing through Kansas City (where I now live) when a cable broke on a grader in the rail yards. As it went whipping around it hit him and broke his leg. He was carried to a rooming house where a railway official came and gave him a settlement. But the boarding house owner ended up taking all his money and his fiddle. He then went to work "pulling corks" (filling whiskey bottles at a still) for Frank James, brother of Jesse James. When he had saved enough money for a train ticket he was about to Board when off stepped his older brother Moss. Their father had sent him to look for Charles. My grandfather knew Uncle Moss well.
I hope this helps. I am still sorting out Maberrys and Fergusons. The penchant for big families, inter-marriage and naming children after uncles, etc. is confusing. I usually do not take anything for fact unless I have verified it in several ways. For instance, I have just ran across some information that the grandfather of Mary J. Ferguson may have been a Cherokee orphan. That is not verified yet.
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