+-- Ezra Hinshaw
                                                    |    1813-<1880
                         +-- Thomas Baron Hinshaw --+
                         |    1841-?                |
                         |                          +-- 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 
   +-- Ruby Irene Hinshaw,  1914-1979 
   +-- Thomas Vestal Hinshaw,  1917-1999 
   +-- William Nelson Hinshaw,  1920-     

Thomas Vestal Hinshaw     [ID 06587]

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    (Thomas Vestal Hinshaw)^a,b    (Thomas Vestel Hinshaw)^c,d    (Vestal Thomas Hinshaw)^e

Born Dec 16 1890, Hickman County, Kentucky.^a,f,c,d    (Nov - 1890).^e,b,g,h

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

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

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

He married Alice Georgia Hopkins, about 1911.^i,h    Alice, daughter of Uriah Hopkins & Arminta Lucrethia Augusta Proffer, was born Jan 3 1893, Missouri.^i,209,g,h

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.^c

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

Thomas worked with the railroad until retirement.^k    He retired to Fontana, California.ⁱ

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

In 1974 Alice was living in Santa Fe Springs, Los Angeles County, California.²⁰⁹

Alice died Nov 6 1974, buried Olive Lawn Memorial Park, La Mirada, Los Angeles County, California.^i,209,l

Photo: Thomas Vestel Hinshaw World War I draft registration card ^c

Photo: Thomas Vestel Hinshaw World War II draft registration card ^d

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

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

SOURCES

209. "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

(a) Contribution from Bill Collard ().

(b) 1910 census, 3rd Magisterial District, Fulton County, Kentucky; roll T624-477, ED 61, page 89B, line #97, dwelling #241, family #247.

(c) World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918; http://www.ancestry.com.

(d) U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942; http://www.ancestry.com.

(e) 1900 census, Sassafras Ridge, Fulton County, Kentucky; roll T623-521, ED 45, page 2B, line #54, dwelling #35, family #45.

(f) RootsWeb California Death Index:
http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi.

(g) 1920 census, 15th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; roll T625-1523, ED 558, page 5B, line #86, dwelling #73, family #105.

(h) 1930 census, 15th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; roll T626-1979, ED 250, page 8A-8B, line #86, dwelling #110-111, family #119-120.

(i) Contribution from Sharon Hinshaw-Payne.

(j) Contribution from Sharon Hinshaw-Payne citing:
1900 and 1910 census, Sassafrass Ridge, Fulton County, Kentucky.

(k) Contribution from Sharon Hinshaw-Payne citing:
Interview with Thomas Vestal Hinshaw.

(l) 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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