Owen Jacob Hinshaw

┌── Jacob Benjamin Hinshaw │ 1841-1910 ┌── William Edgar Hinshaw ──┤ │ 1865-1916 │ │ └── Malinda Davis │ 1844-1912 Owen Jacob Hinshaw ───┤ B: 1890 │ ┌── Edward Simkin D: 1960 │ │ └── Julia Louisa Simkin ────┤ 1866-1941 │ └── Mary Savage M: Ethyl May Cox ├── William Allen Hinshaw (1910-1962) ^1,2,3,4 ├── Chester Edward Hinshaw (1912-1997) ^1,2,3,4,5 └── Mildred M. Hinshaw (1914-) ^1,2,3,6

He married Ethyl May Cox^1,2 ["Mimi" Cox¹⁴], 1909^1,2. Ethyl, daughter of Nathan Cox & Anna M. Reeves, was born Jan 9 1890, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa.^{1,2,3,4,9,14,15,16}

Owen and Ethyl were shown in the 1910 census (Apr 29 1910), living with his parents in Harrison Township, Mahaska County, Iowa:⁹

On Jun 5 1917 Owen Jacob Hinshaw, age 27, registered for the World War I draft in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa. He declared he was born March 5th 1890 in Salem, Lee County, Iowa, and he was then residing in Oskaloosa, Iowa where he was a self-employed farmer with a wife and three children under 12. He claimed an exemption because "am a Quaker". He was recorded as tall, medium build, brown eyes, brown hair.¹⁰

Owen and family were shown in the 1920 census (Jan 21 1920), Harrison Township, Mahaska County, Iowa:³

Owen and family were shown in the 1930 census (Apr 11 1930), Richards Tract, Gridley Township, Butte County, California:⁴

Owen and Ethyl were divorced in 1939.² Ethyl remarried to Harry Crozier, Oskaloosa, Iowa.^1,2

O.J. lived in Gridley, California.² He was a hard worker, raised livestock and tended many acres of fruit trees. There was always a hunting dog around and a horse he loved to ride while hunting deer with his sons, grandsons, and granddaughters.² In the 1950s he moved to Willows, California where he bought a few acres and built his own barn and house and lived there until he died.²

Owen Jacob Hinshaw died Aug 21 1960, Chico, Butte County, California; buried Section 3, Block 2, Lot 523, Space 1, Gridley-Biggs Cemetery, Gridley, Butte County, California.^{1,2,5,12,14,23}

Ethyl died Dec 1 1982, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa; buried Dec 6 1982, Forest Cemetery, Oskaloosa, Iowa.^14,15

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