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Samantha Caroline Hinshaw

                                                +-- George Hinshaw
                                                |    1786-<1850
                             +-- John Hinshaw --+
                             |   c1822-1883     |
                             |                  +-- Anna Goldin
                             |                      c1797-c1880
Samantha Caroline Hinshaw ---+
B: 1858                      |                  +-- Joel Coffey
D: 1900                      |                  |
                             +-- Nancy Coffee --+
                                  1830-?        |
                                                +-- Elizabeth Grubb
M: Thomas Jefferson Chesher
Samantha Caroline Hinshaw     [ID 07627] Click here to switch to Ahnentafel view: Ahnentafel View

    (Samantha Caroline Hinshaw)184    (Caroline Hinshaw)a,b

Born Jan - 1858, Tennessee.b,a,184

She married Thomas Jefferson Chesher.184    Thomas, son of John Thomas Chesher & Mary Cotner, was born in 1848, Grainger County, Tennessee.c    Thomas was the brother of John Henry Chesher who married Samantha's sister Amanda.c    This was Thomas' second marriage;184 he had been previously married to Carolina Tally, by whom he had three children.c

Children:c,184

Thomas Harrison Chesher, born 1888.
Archie Lee Chesher, born Jun 2 1889.

This family reportedly moved to Texas;184 however this probably occured after Caroline's death.d

Thomas died before Jun 5 1900.b

Samantha Caroline Hinshaw died Jun 10 1900.184

Just five days before Samantha Caroline died, on Jun 5 1900, the federal census was taken in Grainger County, Tennessee.    Caroline was recorded as a widow, living in her mother's household:b

Chesher, Caroline, daughter, age 42, born Jan 1858 in Tennessee; parents born in Tennessee; widow; 2 children, 2 living.
Chesher, Arch, grandson, age 17, born Aug 1882 in Tennessee; parents born in Tennessee; single; farmer.
Perhaps Caroline was ill and being cared for by her mother.d    Note that son Thomas Harrison Chesher was not living with Caroline in 1900.   

SOURCES

184. "East Tennessee Roots", Volume I, Issue 3, September, 1984; Tennessee Valley Publications.

(a) 1880 census, 7th Civil District, Grainger County, Tennessee; roll T9-1257, ED 98, page 455B, line #16, dwelling #237, family #247.

(b) 1900 census, Civil District 7, Grainger County, Tennessee; ED 22, page 78B, line #88, dwelling #61, family #64.

(c) Ron Flinders' "Chesher Family History":
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cabin/4390.

(d) Speculation.

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