Martha Ellen Hinshaw

                                               ┌── Stephen Hinshaw
                                               │    1803-1854 
                        ┌── Thomas Hinshaw ────┤
                        │    1832-1872         │
                        │                      └── Gulia Elma Maria Hoover
                        │                           1806-1873 
Martha Ellen Hinshaw ───┤
B: 1859                 │                      ┌── Jonathan R. Evans
D: 1921                 │                      │
                        └── Juretta J. Evans ──┤
                             1830-1863         │
                                               └── Martha Thornburg
M: Allen Smith

Martha Ellen Hinshaw     [ID 01312] Click here to switch to Ahnentafel view: Ahnentafel View

Martha Ellen Hinshaw1,2,3,4 [Mattie Hinshaw2].

Born 6-15-1859, Poplar Ridge MM, Indiana.1,2,5  

At Cottonwood MM on 5-7-1870, Martha and parents and sister Guielma and brother Stephen were received on a certificate from Poplar Ridge MM dated 4-4-1870, "returned to Indiana".3  

After Martha's father died in 1872, she and her family returned to Indiana.  At Cottonwood MM on 3-4-1876, Martha Ellen, daughter of Thomas Hinshaw "by previous wife", was granted a certificate to Poplar Ridge MM, Indiana.3  

Martha and her brother Franklin were shown in the 1880 census (Jun 7-8 1880) living with their maternal aunt (Eliza Ann Evans) and uncle in Clay Township, Hamilton County, Indiana:6

Rayl, Isaac W., age 56, born in North Carolina; parents born in North Carolina; farmer.
Rayl, Eliza Ann, wife, age 54, born in North Carolina; parents born in North Carolina; keeping house.
Rayl, Orianna, daughter, age 18, born in Indiana; parents born in North Carolina.
Rayl, Oliver G., son, age 17, born in Indiana; parents born in North Carolina; farm laborer.
Evans, Martha, mother-in-law, age 72, born in North Carolina; parents born in North Carolina; widow; "very old".
Evans, Jesse E., brother-in-law, age 43, born in Indiana; parents born in Indiana; single; epilepsy.
Hinshaw, Franklin P., nephew, age 22, born in Indiana; father born in Indiana; mother born in North Carolina; single; farmer.
Hinshaw, Martha E., niece, age 21, born in Indiana; father born in Indiana; mother born in North Carolina; single; keeping house.

She married Allen Smith2,4,5,7 [Joseph A. Smith8], Dec 24 18822,4,5,7, Hamilton County, Indiana2,4,5,7.  Allen, son of Joseph Smith & Hesper Sigmon, was born Aug 16 1857, Hamilton County, Indiana.2,5  

Martha Ellen Hinshaw died Jan 10 1921, Nora, Indiana; buried Carmel Cemetery, Carmel, Indiana.2  

Allen died May 8 1938, Indianapolis, Indiana; buried Carmel Cemetery, Carmel, Indiana.2  


Sources

  1. "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.
  2. "Genealogy of Hinshaw/Henshaw" by DoraLee Harvey Hatley (see Mary Jane Hinshaw), in the LDS Family History Library, microfilm #0982181, item 4.
  3. Contribution from Robert S. Hinshaw citing:
    "Monthly Meetings Records of Four Friends Churches".
  4. Indiana Marriages, 1845-1920; http://www.ancestry.com (Book 6, page 532).
  5. "The Hinshaw Record" by Lyle Harris Hadley, Florida (1965), in the LDS Family History Library, microfilm #0962525, item 10.
  6. 1880 census, Carmel, Clay Township, Hamilton County, Indiana; roll T9-0281, ED 43, page 479D-480A, line #45, dwelling #39, family #43.
  7. Indiana Marriages, 1845-1920; http://www.ancestry.com (Book C-1, page 14).
  8. Indiana, Marriage Collection, 1800-1941; http://www.ancestry.com.


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