Named for Private Eason Tiney the first soldier from Edgecombe County that was killed in World War 1 and the Tarboro American Legion Post honored him by using his name, so that others will not forget him or his sacrifice. The father of this young man is John Tiney and he came to Edgecombe County from Washington City. He died when Eason was a small boy. John Tiney was a farmer after coming to North Carolina and was living in Greene County when and where Eason was born.
Elsie Hathaway Tiney was his mother and she was born and reared in Edgecombe County, and she was the daughter of Benjamin J. Hathaway, a Confederate soldier, and Eliza Moseley Hathaway both of who were born in Edgecombe County. She died in 1931. There are two uncles of Eason Tiney now living, Eason Hathaway and B.C. Hathaway, while nothing is known of John Tiney’s people. Eason Tiney has one sister living Eliza Tiney Bell Johnson, who married Paul Bell by whom she had three children and then she married Charlie Johnson, by whom she had three children.
Eason Tiney, a farmer, was living in Macclesfield and was working for Mrs. Rosa Eagles and from that farm, between Eagles store and Old Sparta; he left his crop and was sent to Camp Jackson afterwards being sent overseas to fight. After the war, his body was brought back and placed by that brave Confederate soldier, his grandfather, Benjamin J. Hathaway, on the farm of Mrs. Rosa Eagles. B.C. Hathaway has two large pictures of Eason Tiney, one taken before leaving and the other taken while he was in training at Camp Jackson. The date of birth of Eason Tiney was March 15, 1895, and the dateof his death was August 18, 1918.
