┌── Jacob A. Hinshaw
                                                         │    1778-1826 
                          ┌── John Allen Hinshaw ────────┤
                          │    1813-1851                 │
                          │                              └── Phebe Allen
                          │                                   1789-1869 
Jacob Benjamin Hinshaw ───┤
B: 1841                   │                              ┌── Isaac Hockett
D: 1910                   │                              │
                          └── Harriet Elizabeth Hocket ──┤
                               1813-1882                 │
                                                         └── Sarah (Rebecca) Frazier
M: Malinda Davis
   ├── Charles Allen Hinshaw (1860-1945) 1,2,3,4,5
   ├── Rufus Hinshaw (1861-1862) 1,2
   ├── Albert Franklin Hinshaw (1862-1922) 1,2,3
   ├── William Edgar Hinshaw (1865-1916) 1,2,3
   ├── Harriet Elizabeth Hinshaw (1867-1941) 1,2,3,6,7
   ├── Isaac Soloman Hinshaw (1868-1925) 1,2,3
   ├── Anita Estella Hinshaw (1870-1945) 1,2,6,7,8
   ├── Chester John Hinshaw (1877-1937) 1,2,4,6,7,8
   └── Alfred Carlton Hinshaw (1881-1969) 1,2,6

Jacob Benjamin Hinshaw     [ID 00275]

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Born Jul 11 1841, Salem, Henry County, Iowa.^{1,2,3,6,9,10,11,12,13}  

He married Malinda Davis, Oct 26 1858.^1,2,14  Malinda, daughter of William Davis & Huldah Hough, was born Mar 30 1844, Indiana.^{1,2,3,6,7,12,13,14}  

Jacob and Malinda were shown in the 1860 census (Jul 11 1860), Salem, Lee County, Iowa, living in her father's household:¹²

Jacob and family were shown in the 1870 census (Jul 30 1870), Lee County, Iowa:³

Jacob and Melinda were shown in the 1895 Iowa State Census, Cedar Township, Lee County, Iowa:¹³

Jacob and family were shown in the 1900 census (Jun 9 1900), Cedar Township, Lee County, Iowa:⁶

Jacob Benjamin Hinshaw died Feb 22 1910, White City, Kansas; buried Quaker Cemetery, Salem, Henry County, Iowa.^2,11,14  

Widow Malinda and family were shown in the 1910 census (Apr 28 1910), Rolling Prairie Township, Morris County, Kansas:⁷

Malinda died Nov 12 1912, White City, Kansas; buried Quaker Cemetery, Salem, Henry County, Iowa.^1,2,11  

When Jacob was but 8 years old he began working for others.  "Jacob was employed by one of the district's more prosperous men, William Davis of Chestnut Hill, south of Salem, and after several years (actually he was only sixteen years of age), he married Melinda, daughter of William Davis.  After this, he became a great hunter and for many years his winters were spent out with a group he hired hunting deer, wild turkey and prairie chicken.  He shipped the last full carload of wild game that reached New York City.  He also purchased the first breech loading shot gun in Iowa.  Jacob was a kindly man and those of his grandchildren still living remember his later years spent on the farm he had 'proved on' from the government in Chestnut Hill district four miles south of Salem, Iowa.  Here he developed new varieties of fruit trees, worked in his vegetable and flower garden and always he was followed about by some of his numerous grandchildren and too, there was always a favorite bird dog about his heels.  He died in Feb. 1910 and is buried in the Quaker cemetery at Salem, Iowa."¹⁹  

Sources

1. "Charles and Hannah (Matson) Davis and their descendants" by Earl H. Davis, microfilm #1011836, Item 2, in the LDS Family History Library.
2. Family group sheets contributed by Kent Myrick ()
3. 1870 census, Cedar Township, Lee County, Iowa; page 1A, line #23, dwelling #4, family #4.
4. Contribution from Marion Hinshaw.
5. RootsWeb California Death Index:
   http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi.
6. 1900 census, Cedar Township, Lee County, Iowa; roll T623-442, ED 55, page 4B, line #60, dwelling #80, family #80.
7. 1910 census, Rolling Prairie Township, Morris County, Kansas; roll T624-449, ED 90, page 149A, line #61, dwelling #101, family #101.
8. "The Hinshaw Family", an extensive family history manuscript by Heather Hinshaw-Tomas
9. The Church Of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (LDS) International Genealogical Index (IGI) - Iowa.
10. "The William Wade Hinshaw Index to [Iowa] Quaker Meeting Records", a microfiche in the LDS Family History Library.
11. Family group sheets and descendent chart contributed by Walter V. Graham ()
12. 1860 census, Salem, Cedar Township, Lee County, Iowa; page 321-322, line #23, dwelling #4, family #4.
13. Iowa State Census, 1895; http://www.ancestry.com.
14. The old family bible of Chester Edward Hinshaw, containing family lineage information recorded by Rosina Harriet Hinshaw, contributed by Marion Hinshaw and Heather Hinshaw-Tomas.
15. 1870 census, Cedar Township, Lee County, Iowa; page 1A, line #18, dwelling #3, family #3.
16. 1900 census, Cedar Township, Lee County, Iowa; roll T623-442, ED 55, page 4B, line #71, dwelling #82, family #82.
17. 1900 census, Cedar Township, Lee County, Iowa; roll T623-442, ED 55, page 4B, line #75, dwelling #83, family #83.
18. 1910 census, Rolling Prairie Township, Morris County, Kansas; roll T624-449, ED 90, page 149A, line #74, dwelling #104, family #104.
19. Contribution from Marion Hinshaw citing:
    A note written in the old family bible of Chester Edward Hinshaw.

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