Christopher Price Hinkle and Sessel Savannah Ledbetter

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Husband Christopher Price Hinkle

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           Born: Abt 1865 - Arkansas (Izard Co.)
     Christened: 
           Died: 1894-1898
         Buried:  - Midlothian, Ellis Co., Tx

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         Father: Baltis D. Hinkle (1828-1889) 1
         Mother: Mariah Jane McEntire (Abt 1842-      )

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       Marriage: 17 Feb 1885 - Ellis Co., Texas 2

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Wife Sessel Savannah Ledbetter ³

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           Born: 23 Oct 1868 - Franklin Co., Arkansas
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Jun 1946 - Ballinger, Runnels Co., Texas
         Buried:  - Evergreen Cemetery, Ballinger, Runnels Co., Texas

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         Father: James D. Ledbetter (Abt 1856-      ) 3
         Mother: Sarah Jane (Sally) Tooley (1849-1939) 3

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   Other Spouse: Walter McEntire (1871-1945) - 24 Dec 1898 - Ellis Co., Texas 4

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Children

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1 F Mattie Bell Hinkle ^{3 5}

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           Born: 8 Jan 1885 - Texas (Ellis Co.)
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Dec 1966 - Ballinger, Runnels Co., Texas 6
         Buried:  - Evergreen Cemetery, Ballinger, Runnels Co., Texas

         Spouse: Walter Ernest Middleton (1883-1975) 3 5
           Marr: 3 Jun 1903 - Midlothian, Ellis Co., Texas 3 7

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2 F Nannie Mae Hinkle ³

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           Born: Oct 1888 - Texas (Ellis Co.)
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Robertson (1878-1928) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Christopher Price Hinkle

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MIDDLE NAME:

Christopher P. Hinkle's grandson Joseph Thomas Price Middleton was told by his father that he (JTPM) had been named for his grandfather. This information is from Joseph Thomas Price's daughter Suzanne. In the last 2 years of the Civil War Baltis D. Hinkle, Christopher's father, served in a Missouri cavalry regiment. Major General Sterling Price was the leading military personage in Missouri at that time. It seems likely that Baltis D. named his son for Gen. Price.

The death certificate of Christopher P. Hinkle's daughter Mattie Bell Middleton says that her father was Price Hinkle.

WICHITA CO., TEXAS:

See notes for his father, B. D. Hinkle.

DEATH:

C. P. Hinkle purchased land on June 18, 1894. He may or may not have been alive when that land was sold at auction on January 7, 1896. He is on the tax roll of Wichita Co., Texas from 1891 to 1895. In 1895 he is taxed on 105.7 acres, 1 wagon, and $25 worth of machinery and tools. His widow remarried in December 1898.

My aunt Dimice said that he died in an accident that involved a horse in some way. She said that his lung was punctured against a saddle horn. According to the records of the Midlothian Cemetery Association, which I saw at the Coward Funeral Home in Midlothian October 7, 1983, C. P. Hinkle is buried in grave 6 row 26 in the Midlothian Cemetery. There is no marker. Harry Hinkle is buried in grave 5. In row 25 M. Hinkle is in grave 3 and B. Hinkle is in grave 4. The only marker is for Baltis D. Hinkle in 25/4.

Who is Harry Hinkle? I conjecture that he is a child of C. P. Hinkle who died in infancy.

In the 1890's there was a weekly newspaper called the Waxahatchie Enterprise published in Waxahatchie, the county seat of Ellis Co. It can be seen on microfilm in the public library in Waxahatchie. Most issues have a feature entitled "CRADLE -- ALTAR -- TOMB". In 2009 I searched this feature diligently in the period in which Christopher Hinkle might have died for a death date, but I was unsuccessful. The feature does not always appear, and some issues of the newspaper are missing. I also searched unsuccessfully for a death date for his mother Mariah Jane Hinkle. I had a death date for Baltis D. Hinkle, and I easily found him in the TOMB.

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General Notes: Wife - Sessel Savannah Ledbetter

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Walter McEntire was a first cousin of Christopher Hinkle (her first husband) and of Jennie Hinkle, my grandmother. After her second marriage my father and his siblings referred to her and her husband as Aunt Van and Cousin Walter. -- Neal Parker

1 H. Neal Parker, Visit to Cemetery, Midlothian, Ellis Co., Texas, 7 Oct 1983 and later.

2 Ellis County, Texas Marriage Records, vol 2, 1878 -- 1886. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

3 Personal Communication -- Suzanne Price, May 2008.

4 Ellis County Public Records, Marriage Records, Book J, pg 289. Repository: Ellis County Courthouse, Waxahatchie, Texas.

5 Runnels County Historical Commission, In Remembrance, Cemetery Inscriptions in Runnels County, 1985, Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

6 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 55861327.

7 Texas, U.S., County Marriage Records 1817--1965, Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.