┌── Ezra Hinshaw
                                                    │    1813-<1880
                         ┌── Thomas Baron Hinshaw ──┤
                         │    1841-1918             │
                         │                          └── Permelia E. Jarrell
                         │                              c1821-?    
Thomas Vestal Hinshaw ───┤
B: 1890                  │                          ┌── Isaac Barton Davis
D: 1961                  │                          │
                         └── Malinda A. Davis ──────┤
                              1864-1910             │
                                                    └── Margaret Jane Childress
M: Alice Georgia Hopkins
   ├── Chester Hinshaw (1912-1912) 1,2
   ├── Ruby Irene Hinshaw (1914-1979) 1,3,4
   ├── Thomas Vestal Hinshaw (1917-1999) 1,3,4,5,6
   └── William Nelson Hinshaw (1920-) 1,4,5

Thomas Vestal Hinshaw     [ID 06587]

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Thomas Vestal Hinshaw^7,8 [Thomas Vestel Hinshaw^9,10, Vestal Thomas Hinshaw¹¹].

Born Dec 16 1890, Hickman County, Kentucky.^7,9,10,12,13  (Nov - 1890).^3,4,8,11  

At the age of 19, Thomas went to work as a laborer in a factory, where he began using Thomas as his first name.¹  

In 1910 Thomas lived on Mengel Lane, Sassafrass Ridge, Fulton County, Kentucky.¹⁴  

In 1912 he worked as a "railroad maintenance man".  At the railroad he met his future wife Alice, who worked there as a cook.¹⁵  

He married Alice Georgia Hopkins, about 1911.^1,4  Alice, daughter of Uriah Hopkins & Arminta Lucrethia Augusta Proffer, was born Jan 3 1893, Missouri.^{1,3,4,5,13,16}  

On Jun 2 1917 Thomas Vestel Hinshaw, age 26, registered for the World War I draft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He declared he was born December 16 1890 in Hickman [county], Kentucky, and was then residing at 5260 Second Ave., Pittsburgh with a wife and two children, and was a fireman employed by the B&O R.R.  He claimed an exemption due to "wife and two children".  He was recorded as medium height, medium build, grey-brown eyes, black hair.⁹  

Thomas and family were shown in the 1920 census (Jan 6 1920), 74 Alameda Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:³

Thomas and family were shown in the 1930 census (Apr 8 1930), 5131 Ladora Way, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:⁴

Thomas and family were shown in the 1940 census (Apr 27 1940), 4612 Sylvan Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:⁵

In 1942 Thomas Vestel Hinshaw, age 51, registered for the World War II draft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He declared he was born 12-16-1890 in Hickman [county], Kentucky, and was then residing at 4612 Sylvan Ave., Pittsburgh, employed by the Pittsburgh Railways Co.  He declared his relative/contact was Mrs. Alice Hinshaw of the same address.¹⁰  

Thomas and Alice were shown in the 1947 city directory of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:¹⁷

Thomas worked with the railroad until retirement.¹⁵  He retired to Fontana, California.¹  

Thomas Vestal Hinshaw died Feb 6 1961, Covina, Los Angeles County, California; buried Sunnyside Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.^1,12,13  

In 1974 Alice was living in/near Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles County, California.¹⁶  

Alice died Nov 6 1974, buried Olive Lawn Memorial Park, La Mirada, Los Angeles County, California.^1,16,18  (Nov 4 1974).¹³

Photo: Thomas Vestel Hinshaw World War I draft registration card ⁹

Photo: Thomas Vestel Hinshaw World War II draft registration card ¹⁰

Social Security information for Thomas Vestal Hinshaw: 193-05-4163

Social Security information for Alice Georgia Hopkins: 186-20-1381

Sources

1. Contribution from Sharon Hinshaw-Payne.
2. Death certificate, Commonwealth of Kentucky, State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics; contributed by Joy Bliss Gerber
3. 1920 census, 15th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; roll T625-1523, ED 558, page 5B, line #86, dwelling #73, family #105.
4. 1930 census, 15th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; roll T626-1979, ED 250, page 8A-8B, line #86, dwelling #110-111, family #119-120.
5. 1940 census, 15th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; roll T627-3664, ED 69-432, page 9A, line #31, household #170.
6. VitalSearch California Death Index 1940-2000:
   http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/ca/_vitals/cadeathm.htm.
7. Contribution from Bill Collard ().
8. 1910 census, 3rd Magisterial District, Fulton County, Kentucky; roll T624-477, ED 61, page 89B, line #97, dwelling #241, family #247.
9. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918; http://www.ancestry.com.
10. U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942; http://www.ancestry.com.
11. 1900 census, Sassafras Ridge, Fulton County, Kentucky; roll T623-521, ED 45, page 2B, line #54, dwelling #35, family #45.
12. RootsWeb California Death Index:
    http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi.
13. California, Death Index, 1940-1997; http://www.ancestry.com.
14. Contribution from Sharon Hinshaw-Payne citing:
    1900 and 1910 census, Sassafrass Ridge, Fulton County, Kentucky.
15. Contribution from Sharon Hinshaw-Payne citing:
    Interview with Thomas Vestal Hinshaw.
16. "Social Security Death Index" (as it is commonly called), derived from the Social Security Administration "Death Master File". See: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson10.htm
17. U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989; http://www.ancestry.com.
18. Burials at Olive Lawn Memorial Park, La Mirada, Los Angeles County, California; USGenWeb Archives:
    http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/losangeles/cemeteries/olivelawn.txt.

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