George Washington Hinshaw

┌── John W. Hinshaw │ c1825-? ┌── Betsy Jane Hinshaw ──┤ │ c1852-1939 │ │ └── Susan Anna Swaim │ c1829-? George Washington Hinshaw ───┤ B: 1897 D: 1973 M: Lucy Cordelia Hill ├── Elma I. Hinshaw (1918-1981) ^1,2,3 ├── Roselia Hinshaw (1919-1979) ^1,2,3 ├── Annie Hinshaw (1920-1973) ^1,3 ├── George Robert Hinshaw (1922-1965) ^1,3 ├── James Douglas Hinshaw (1924-1989) ^1,3,4 ├── Vera Cordelia Hinshaw (1926-1987) ^1,3,4 ├── Nina Hinshaw (1928-1993) ^1,3,4 └── Raymond Earl Hinshaw (1930-2009) ^1,4,5

Born Mar 6 1897^{1,2,3,6,7,8,9} [1893¹⁰, about 1895¹¹], Jackson County, Alabama^{1,2,3,6,7,8,9} [Tennessee¹¹].

He married Lucy Cordelia Hill, Jan 17 1917, Franklin County, Tennessee.^1,7,12 Lucy, daughter of Robert White Hill & Cordelia "Dealie" Willis McGee, was born Oct 1 1896, Franklin County, Tennessee.^1,2,3,4,7,13

On Jun 5 1918 Geo Hinshaw, age 21, registered for the World War I draft in Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee. He declared he was born March 6, 1897 in Jackson County, Alabama, and that he was then residing in Maxwell, Tennessee where he was employed by an Ed Mason of Huntland, Tennessee. He declared his nearest relative was Jane Hinshaw of Maxwell, Tennessee. He was recorded as slender, medium height, blue eyes, light hair.⁶

George was a farmer.^1,2,3 He also was employed with Dickey's Clay Pipe Manufacturing company in Chattanooga, Tennessee.¹

George and family were shown in the 1920 census (Jan 9-10 1920), living with Lucy's grandparents on Hog Saw Road, Cedar Grove Township, Walker County, Georgia:²

George and family were shown in the 1930 census (Apr 23 1930), Franklin County, Tennessee:³

George and family were shown in the 1940 census (Apr 15 1940), Franklin County, Tennessee:⁴

George Washington Hinshaw died Mar 2 1973, Franklin County, Tennessee; age 75.^1,8,9,14

George's mother, Jane Hinshaw, never married.¹ It is uncertain exactly who his father was, but it is believed George's father was Lem Motlow, who came from the Jack Daniels distillery family¹ (but another family folklore has it that George's father was a -- Hereford).¹

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