John M. Hinkle
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 14 Sep 1843 - Tennessee Christening: Death: 21 Nov 1883 - Melbourne, Izard Co., Arkansas 2 Burial: in Lunenburg Cem., Izard Co., Arkansas Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jesse Hinkle (1814-1891) Mother: Sarah Ann Cole ( -Bef 1846) 1
Spouses and Children
1. *Elizabeth Modrill "Frances" Sheffield (15 Sep 1850 - 21 Nov 1883) Marriage:
Notes
General:
CENSUS:
<pre>1870 Izard Co., Ar, Rocky Bayou Twp., p.o. Lunen Burg; July 26; pg 3
21/22
John Hinkle 26 MW Tn $1000/$2500 Merchant
Francis " 19 FW Ar Keeping house
William " 2 MW Ar
Mariah Ward 16 FW Mo House Keeping
James McMahn 35 MW Tn /$100 Works on Farm </pre>
<pre>1880 Izard Co., Ar, Melbourne, ED 85; June 18; pg 19
164/171
John M. Hinkle 36 Tn NC Tn Merchant
Frances " 29 wife Ar Tn Tn Keeping house
Willie " 12 son Ar Tn Ar At home
Jeffie M. " 8 dau Ar Tn Ar
Charles G. " 5 son Ar Tn Ar
Laurence " 2 son Ar Tn Ar </pre>
There are 5 other people in the household including John H. Sheffield (17, student, brother-in-law). His half-brother Henry H. Hinkle lives at 162/169, and his first cousin John A. Hinkle lives at 161/168. Both are merchants.
DEATH:
Find-a-Grave Memorial # 33042004:
The Daily Cairo Bulletin, November 23, 1883, Cairo, Illinois
A Heavy and Wide Spread Storm, With Local Cyclones and Water-Spouts-Immense Damage Wrought.
Batesville, Arkansas, November 22.
Owing to the fact that Melbourne, the town struck by lightning yesterday, is so far from a telegraph station, it is not possible to obtain other than meager particulars of the destructive work done by the storm. Ex-Sheriff John Hinkle, his wife and two children were killed, and Mrs. Henry H. Hinkle severely if not fatally wounded. The storm swept through the heart of the town, leveling nearly all the stores surrounding the Court House square, the court house, two churches and several residences.
Melbourne is the county seat of Izard county, situated thirty miles northwest of Batesville, on the highest ground in that county, and about 2,000 feet above White river, which flows around it thirteen miles to the westward. The town contained nine general stores and several shops built around a public square, in the center of which was a Court House erected six years ago at a cost of $4,000; a hotel, two cotton gins, a steam planing mill, two good churches, Methodist and Baptist, a fine academy and some fifty residences, several of them gracious and costly. John M. Hinkle, who is reported killed, was formerly sheriff, and latterly the leading merchant, and largest cotton buyer in several counties around. He recently visited St. Louis and bought twelve or fifteen thousand dollars' worth of goods for the winter's trade. He lived in a fine residence two squares north of the Court House. His brother, Henry H., a partner in the house of Hinkle Bros. & Co., whose wife is reported badly injured, owned a handsome residence across the street. Ray Hinkle, a brother of the two above named, was city marshal, and a member of the mercantile firm of Landers & Co.. West of the Court House, across a ravine, upon the side of a high, densely wooded hill, capped with lofty pines, stood the two churches destroyed. Their distance from the Hinkles' residences and from the Court House would indicate that the breadth of the tornado's track was at least three hundred yards. All the buildings destroyed were of wood.
Three years ago a cyclone passed through the heavy pine region one mile north of Melbourne, and uprooted every tree and shrub within an area of a quarter of a mile in width by two miles in length.
Juaniata Sentinel and Republican, Wednesday, November 28, 1883; Page 2, Column 4. (Mifflintown, Juaniata County, Penna.)
A cyclone struck Melbourne, Ark., at three o'clock last Wednesday morning the 21st inst. Ex-Sheriff John Hinkle and his wife and two children were killed, and Mrs. Henry S. Hinkle was crippled. The Court House, two churches and several stores and houses were blown down.
1 Edgar D. Byler III, "Modified Register for Jesse Hinkle," unpublished.
2
"Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 33042004
Double stone with wife; hard to read.
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