+-- Elias Hinshaw
                     |   c1786-c1840
                     |
                     |
Luke Hinshaw --------+
B: 1819              |                    +-- Katherine Martin
D: 1886              |                    |
                     +-- Sarah Williams --+
                          1789-?          |
                                          +-- Benjamin Williams
M: Isabella McKinney
   +-- Eudora Hinshaw,  1852-1922 
   +-- Walter A. Hinshaw,  1854-1864 
   +-- Rachel A. Hinshaw,  1855-1864 
   +-- John Doderidge Hinshaw,  1857-1939 
   +-- Wilbur Montgomery Hinshaw,  1860-1911 

Luke Hinshaw     [ID 02626]

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Born Sep 9 1819, Ross County, Ohio.^a,161,b    (Aug 10 1819).^c    (c1818).^d

In 1845, Luke and his brothers migrated by overland wagon train to Polk County, Oregon.    One of Luke's duties on the trail was hunting buffalo, providing meat for the camp.¹⁶¹

Luke was shown in the March, 1849 Territorial Census of Tuality County, Oregon (now Washington County):^e

Luke and family were shown in the 1860 census (Jul 1860), Walla Walla County, Washington Territory:^h

Widow Isabella and children were shown in the 1889 Washington state census, Lincoln County, Washington:^m

A biographical sketch of Luke and Isabella Hinshaw was published in the 1904 "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country":^b

LUKE HINSHAW was a native of Ross county, Ohio, born September 9, 1819.    During his early childhood he was taken by his parents to Indiana and at the age of fifteen he went to Henry county, Iowa.    In the spring of 1845 he started across the plains with a yoke of oxen, being a member of a party of sixty wagons bound for the Willamette valley, and arrived at his destination in the month of November.    Mr. Hinshaw lived at various places in the Willamette valley, and for a time conducted a ferry across the river at Oregon city. He was married on November 23, 1851, in Washington county, Oregon, to Isabella McKinney, a native of Tippecanoe county, Indiana, born March 31, 1831.    Mrs. Hinshaw was the daughter of William and Anna (Walter) McKinney, natives, respectively, of Ross county, Ohio, and Washington county, Pennsylvania.    The paternal ancestors of Mrs. Hinshaw were of Irish stock, some of whom served in the Revolutionary war in America.    The father was a pioneer of Oregon of 1845, and at the age of eighty-seven, died in Washington county of that state in the year 1886.    The mother was closely related to Reverend Phillip Dodgridge, a celebrated minister, and died in Portland, Oregon, in 1898, aged ninety-two years.    Mrs. Hinshaw's family removed to Henry county, Iowa, from the state of her birth, and in 1844 started across the plains to Oregon, but owing to misfortunes the family was compelled to remain on the Platte river until the following spring, when they joined the party of which Mr. Hinshaw was a member, and with it came on to Oregon.    Mrs. Hinshaw's parents made their home in Washington county until their death. After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hinshaw they removed to Linn county, Oregon, near Albany, where Mr. Hinshaw had a donation claim of land.    In the autumn of 1859 they came to Walla Walla, Washington, and soon afterward started a merchandise store near the present location of the city of Waitsburg, on the Walla Walla-Lewiston trails.    Theirs was the first store between these two points.    After remaining in that business a few years, Mr. and Mrs. Hinshaw sold out, returned to Oregon and for a short space of time conducted a store at Centerville.    Later they sold this business, came to the Big Bend and filed on a homestead in 1880.    Their claim lay one-half mile south of the present site of Mohler.    They were the first settlers in that vicinity and their nearest neighbor lived ten miles distant.    The health of Mr. Hinshaw soon began to give way, and, returning to Oregon with the hope of being benefited, he died in that state in 1883.    However, he never disposed of his Big Bend homestead. Mrs. Hinshaw has three brothers and one sister: James M., William, Jasper N. and Mrs. Rachel Cornelius, the first two residents of Washington and the others of Oregon.    She makes her home a portion of the time with her children and the remainder of the time with her sister, whose home is in Portland. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hinshaw have been life-long members of the Presbyterian church. They reared a family of five children, whose names and present addresses follow: Dora, married to F. W. Morgan, Mohler; Walter E. and Rachel, now deceased; John D. married to Bertha Lacey, Mohler, and Wilbur M., also of Mohler.    John D. Hinshaw is a prominent farmer, owning three hundred and twenty acres of land.    He has two children, Herbert B. and Cecil. All of the children were born in Linn county, Oregon, with the exception of the last named, who is a native of Washington.

SOURCES

161. "The Brazen Overlanders of 1845", by Donna M. Wojcik, contributed by Lucille Bigelow ().

(a) Contribution from Lucille Bigelow ().

(b) Biographical sketch of Luke Hinshaw; "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington"; Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~heeyjude/Lincoln/hinshawl.html.

(c) Contribution from Marge Womach () citing:
Luke Hinshaw family bible records (aged loose sheets).

(d) 1850 census, Linn City, Washington County, Oregon Territory; roll M432-742, page 122, line #13, dwelling #1, family #1.

(e) 1849 Territorial Census, Tuality County, Oregon; pg 9; USGenWeb Archives.

(f) Contribution from Marge Womach ().

(g) Contribution from Marge Womach () citing:
"History of Big Bend", 1904.

(h) 1860 census, Touchet Precinct, Walla Walla County, Washington Territory; page 281, line #18, dwelling #59, family #59.

(i) 1870 census, Forest Grove P.O., Forest Grove Township, Washington County, Oregon; roll M593-1288, page 456, line #2, dwelling #15, family #15.

(j) 1880 census, Crab Creek, Spokane County, Washington Territory; ED 63; page 83, line #45, dwelling #30, family #30.

(k) 1880 census, Walla Walla County, Washington Territory; ED 49, page 217B, line #13, dwelling #16, family #18.

(l) 1880 census, Walla Walla County, Washington Territory; ED 49, page 217B, line #14, dwelling #17, family #19.

(m) 1889 Washington state census, Lincoln County, Washington; roll V228-11.

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