┌── Absolom Hinshaw
                                                │    1752-1830 
                         ┌── Benjamin Hinshaw ──┤
                         │    1803-1840         │
                         │                      └── Elizabeth Hinshaw
                         │                          c1753-1833 
Iram Hinshaw ────────────┤
B: 1837                  │                      ┌── Peter Larrance
D: 1889                  │                      │
                         └── Mary E. Larrence ──┤
                              1800-1851         │
                                                └── Abigail Heydock
M: Nancy Lucinda Cumming
   ├── Newton F. Hinshaw (c1864-1885) 1,2
   ├── Alonzo L. Hinshaw (c1867-1888) 1,2,3

M: Hannah Alexander
   └── Mertie M. Hinshaw (1880-1943) 3,4

Iram Hinshaw     [ID 00124]

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Iram Hinshaw^5,6,7,8 [Irom Hinshaw⁹, Iram Henshaw^6,10,11, Isom Hinshaw¹², Isam Hinshaw¹³].

Born 1-1-1837, Cane Creek MM, North Carolina.^8,12,13  Iram and sister Elizabeth were twins.^7,8  

At Cane Creek MM on 10-2-1852, Isam was granted a certificate to Spiceland MM, Indiana.¹³  

At Spiceland MM (Indiana) on 11-24-1852, Isom, sister Elizabeth, and brother Nathan were received on a certificate from Cane Creek MM, N.C.¹²  

At Spiceland MM on 12-24-1856, Isom was granted a certificate to West Union MM.¹²  (Elizabeth followed the following year and Nathan the year after).¹²  

At West Union MM on 1-12-1857, Irom was received on a certificate from Spiceland MM.⁹  

At West Union MM on 4-7-1862, Irom was granted a certificate to Kansas MM, Kansas.⁹  

He married Nancy Lucinda Cumming.^1,14,15  Nancy, daughter of William Cummings & Terry Hicks, was born 1834, Owen County, Indiana.^15,16  

Iram and family were shown in the 1870 census (Jul 12 1870), Willow Springs, Eudora Township, Douglas County, Kansas:²

He then married Hannah Alexander, Nov 8 1878, Sonoma County, California.^5,10,19  Hannah was born Jan - 1853, Pennsylvania.^3,4,5,20,21  

Iram and family were shown in the 1880 census (Jun 1 1880), Petaluma, Sonoma County, California:³

On Aug 12 1882 Iram registered to vote in Santa Clara County, California:²²

Iram was shown in the San Jose, and Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz Counties Directory of 1884-85:²³

Iram was again shown in the San Jose, and Santa Clara, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz Counties Directory of 1887-88:²⁴

Iram was again shown in the San Jose City Directory of 1889:²⁵

Iram Hinshaw died Jan 9 1889, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California; age 52.²⁶  

Iram's death was reported in the San Jose, California "Evening News" on Jan 9 1889 (where he is shown age 52),²⁷ and also on Jan 10 1889 in the San Jose "Daily Herald".¹¹  The article from the "Daily Herald" (actually shown on the newspaper itself as "San Jose Daily Mercury") appears as follows:⁶

HINSHAW - In San Jose, January 9, 1889, Iram Henshaw, aged 52 years.   Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from the Friend's Church, on Stockton avenue at 11 o'clock A.M. TO-DAY (Thursday), Jan. 10th.

On Sep 23 1889 Hannah remarried to a Thomas VonCarnap²⁸ (marriage performed by Geo. W. Beatty).²⁸  

Hannah and her new husband and daughter Mertie were shown in the 1900 census (Jun 7 1900), Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, California:⁴

Thomas VonCarnap died sometime before Apr 27 1910.²⁰  

Widow Hannah was shown in the 1910 census (Apr 27 1910), working in the household of a William Keith in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California:²⁰

Widow Hannah was shown in the 1920 census (Jan 3 1920), living alone at 261 North Fourth, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California:²¹

Hannah died Oct 26 1929, Alameda County, California; age 75.²⁹  

Sources

1. Contribution from Carol Lawrence Vidales.
2. 1870 census, Willow Springs, Eudora Township, Douglas County, Kansas; page 246, line #5, dwelling #86, family #87.
3. 1880 census, Petaluma, Sonoma County, California; roll T9-0084, ED 122, page 38A, line #6, dwelling #2, family #2.
4. 1900 census, Los Gatos, Redwood Township, Santa Clara County, California; roll T623-110, ED 57, page 9A, line #17, dwelling #219, family #219.
5. Contribution from Richard Burton and John Burton citing:
   Sonoma County, California, marriage license records.
6. "San Jose Daily Mercury, Thursday morning, January 10, 1889.
7. 1850 census, Upper Regiment, Chatham County, North Carolina; roll 624, pg 382, family #467.
8. Society of Friends, Cane Creek MM Records; LDS FHL microfilm #0371251
9. "Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana", Part 6, subtitled "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume VII", (a compendium of many of the records left by William Wade Hinshaw on his death), edited by Willard Heiss; GS929.3 H47 in a local library.
10. "San Francisco Call 1875-1884 Births, Marriages and Deaths"
    The San Francisco Call archives: http://feefhs.org/fdb2/sfcalli.html.
11. "The Daily Herald", Jan 10 1889, page 2, column 5; San Jose (California)
    Newspaper Obituary Index, LDS microfilm #1420389.
12. "Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana", Part 4, subtitled "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Volume VII", (a compendium of many of the records left by William Wade Hinshaw on his death), edited by Willard Heiss; GS929.3 H47 in a local library.
13. "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy", by William Wade Hinshaw, in many well-stocked libraries.
14. "Hinshaw Family": a collection of family group sheets by Edna Harvey Joseph; LDS FHL microfilm #1572018 items 8-10 and #1572019 items 1-4
15. Ancestry "World Tree" GEDCOM "14048" from ().
16. 1850 census, Lafayette Township, Owen County, Indiana; roll M432_164, page 154, line #7, dwelling #946.
17. 1870 census, Willow Springs, Eudora Township, Douglas County, Kansas; page 245, line #37, dwelling #85, family #86.
18. 1870 census, Willow Springs, Eudora Township, Douglas County, Kansas; page 245, line #18, dwelling #80, family #81.
19. The Church Of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (LDS) International Genealogical Index (IGI) - California.
20. 1910 census, 3rd Ward, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California; roll T624-106, ED 101, page 213B, line #86, dwelling #336, family #402.
21. 1920 census, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California; roll T625-147, ED 158, page 2A, line #45, dwelling #24, family #40.
22. California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898; http://www.ancestry.com.
23. San Jose, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz Directory, 1884-85.
24. San Jose, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz Directory, 1887-88.
25. San Jose City Directory, 1889.
26. "Cemetery Headstone Inscriptions", Oak Hill Cemetery, San Jose,
    Santa Clara County, California; microfilm #1420370.
27. "The Evening News", Jan 9 1889, page 2, column 4; San Jose (California)
    Newspaper Obituary Index, LDS microfilm #1420389.
28. Santa Clara County, California, Index to Marriages, Book C: 1883-1890;
    Santa Clara County Courthouse; Book J, page 226; LDS microfilm #1302021, Item 6.
29. VitalSearch California Death Index 1905-1929:
    http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/ca/_vitals/cadeathm.htm.

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