Joseph Hinkle and Mary

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Husband Joseph Hinkle

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           Born: Abt 1772
     Christened: 
           Died: 23 May 1849 - (Chester Co., SC) 1
         Buried:  - Union ARP Cemetery, Chester Co., SC

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         Father: Jacob Henckel (Abt 1733-1789)
         Mother: Christina (      -After 1820)

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Jan 1855 - (Chester Co., SC)
         Buried:  - Union ARP Cemetery, Chester Co., SC

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Hinkle

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CENSUS:

<pre>1800 Chester District, South Carolina
Joseph Hinkle 10110 -- 20110; 1 slave
male female
1 <10 2
10-15
1 16-25 1
1 26-44 1
>45 </pre>

<pre>1810 Chester District, South Carolina
Jos. Hinkle 20110 -- 22010; no slaves
male female
2 <10 2
10-15 2
1 16-25
1 26-44 1
>45 </pre>

<pre>1820 Chester District, South Carolina
Joseph Hinkle 200101 -- 21201; no slaves; 2 in agriculture, 1 in manufactures
male female
2 <10 2
10-16 1
16-18
1 16-26 2
26-45
1 >45 1 </pre>

<pre>1830 Chester District, South Carolina
Jos: Hinkle 00010001 -- 0011; 1 slave
male female
< 5
5-10
10-15 1
1 15-20 1
20-30
30-40
40-50
1 50-60
60-70 </pre>

<pre>1840 Chester District, South Carolina
Joseph Hinkle 000020001 -- 000110001; 1 slave; 1 in agriculture
male female
< 5
5-10
10-15
15-20 1
2 20-30 1
30-40
40-50
50-60
1 60-70 1
70-80 </pre>

James M. Hinkle lives next to him and Lewis Hinkle is 24 entries away.

RLH:

The following is from an article by Robert L. Hess in the HENCKEL GENEALOGICAL BULLETIN (Vol 33, No 2, Fall 2002) entitled "Jacob Hinkle of Spread Eagle Tavern". Numbers in brackets indicate notes which follow.

6. Joseph Hinkle was born about 1775.[1] He died 22 May 1849, and his wife Mary (-?-) died 6 January 1855. They are buried in the Union ARP Cemetery, Chester County. South Carolina.[2] They moved during the 1790s to Chester County, South Carolina, where he served on a grand jury in 1800.

Joseph Hinkle appeared in the census records in Chester County in 1800 through 1830, head of family with evidently a wife and eventually eleven children.[4] He was there during the 1820s, when he corresponded with Hinkle cousins.[5] Joseph wrote his will on 5 December 1836, naming wife Mary and their seven surviving children.[6]

Further research findings on Joseph and his family were published in the HENCKEL GENEALOGICAL BULLETIN, Volume 7 (1976), pages 277-278.


1. Joseph's birth year is estimated here from his reported age in four census records of Chester County, SC: 60-70 years in 1840, p. 306; 50-60 in 1830, p. 287; and "over 26 and less than 45" in three returns: 1820, p. 44; 1810, p. 264; 1800, p. 94. The age on his gravestone when he died in 1849 was reported to have been 82 years, but this appears to have either been mis-transcribed or an error when engraved -- his wife also died at age 82. No baptism or other record has been found ascertaining that Joseph was a son of Jacob Hinkle; however, if so, he was born while his parents were still in Chester County, PA. It is possible that Joseph was, instead, a son of [HG42] Balthasar Hinkle and born about 1776 in Frederick County, MD, but not included in the Lutheran baptism records there. If a son of Jacob, why would Joseph settle in Chester County, SC, where [HG#424] Jesse Hinkle was residing in 1790, rather than accompany all the other members of Jacob's family in their move to Lincoln County, NC in 1784/5?
2. Records of J. O. Henkel, Jr., Starksville, MS; taken from the gravestones.
3. B. H. Holcomb & E. O. Parker, "Chester County, South Carolina, Minutes of the County Court 1785-1799" (Easley, SC: Southern University Press, 1978), 414-15.
4. US Population Censuses, Chester County, SC: 1800 NARA-47, p. 94; 1810 NARA M252-60, p. 264; 1820 NARA M33-120, p. 44; 1830 NARA M19-169, p. 287.
5. Two letters from Joseph Henkel, Chester County, SC, dated 1 January 1820 and 22 October 1825; "Correspondence to [HG#5217 Rev. David Henkel"; collection in the Wentz Library, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, PA.
6. Will of Joseph Hinkle; Chester County, SC, dated 5 December 1836 (prov. 4 August 1849); Chester County, SC Will Book A:80.

BIRTH YEAR and FATHER:

See footnote 1 in the previous section.

Robert L. Hess is mistaken about Joseph's age in the 1820 census. Using the correct age in 1820 and assuming that the entry 26-44 in 1800 corresponds to Joseph, we can say that he was born between 1770 and 1774. It might, however, be that in 1800 Joseph was living with his older second cousin Jesse Hinkle (son of John Balthasar) and that Joseph is 16-25. In that case Joseph was born in 1775. The children in the 1800 census entry do not fit the second scenario very well.

The age on Joseph's tombstone is clearly 82. If Joseph was 82 when he died May 23, 1849, he was born between May 24, 1766 and May 23, 1767, and his age in 1830 and in 1840 are wrong by 3 or 4 years. As a child of Jacob a birth year in the early 1770s is very plausible; a birth date between May 1766 and May 1767 is not compatible with the birth date of Susanna. As a child of John Balthasar early 1770s is a tight squeeze, and late 1760s is less problematic.

Although most of Jacob Hinkle's children accompanied him to Lincoln Co., North Carolina and remained there, it is not true that all of them besides Joseph did so. Lewis is in Chester District, South Carolina in 1820, 1830 and 1840. In 1850 after the death of his wife he is in Gaston Co., North Carolina. Gaston Co. was formed in 1848 from the southern part of Lincoln Co. and is not very far from Chester Co., South Carolina. Jacob's youngest son Jonathan is also closely associated with Chester Co., SC.

LAND:

On July 1, 1797 Joseph Hinkle purchases for $700 a tract of 100 acres in Chester District on waters of the South Fork of Fishing Creek. It adjoins land surveyed for Timothy McClintock and land surveyed for widow Cherry. Jesse Hinkle and Jonathan Jones are witnesses (Chester Co. Deed Records, N/195, #137)

On January 6, 1808 Jonathan Jones of Chester District sells to Joseph Hinkle of the same place for $1000 a 50 acre tract on the waters of Rockey Creek adjoining in some way the Timothy McClintock property and the widow Cherry property. (N/473)

1 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 65080979.