----- Original Message ----- From: "Arleigh Birchler" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:20 PM > Source: [email protected] > Subject: Quacker Hinshaw's in North Carolina and Central Illinois > > > Gil, > > Just a few weeks ago I visited the Cane Creek Meeting House Cemetery. It > is just west of Kimesville, which is on the South Prong of Stinking > Quarters. Just North of it is Rock Creek. I am pretty sure that in > Colonial Days it was called Little Creek. Phillip Kime, Peggy Reitzel, > and their son, Henry Kime, lived on what I render as "Little Stinking > Quarters". > > The cemetery at the Cane Creek Meeting House if rather large, with many > graves dating to before the Revolution. I saw at least one Hinshaw grave, > but did not take the time to search all of it. I do not know if William > and Mary Hinshaw stayed there after the Revolution, or where they are > buried. A few of their children went to Central Illinois, and were active > in the Illinois General Assembly with Abe Lincoln and the Long Nine. > > But going back, William Hinshaw, and some of his wife's brothers, fought > with the Regulators at the Battle on the Alamance, which is actually just > a few miles away on the North Prong of Stinking Quarters. This is all > just a bit southwest of Greensboro, in Guilford County. Goldsboro is very > near the coast in East Carolina. > > Hope some of this helps. I am only related to Mary and William Hinshaw's > descendants by marriage of the Benson/Musick's with the Hinshaw's in > McLean County, Illinois. Mary and William were cousins, and were both > named Hinshaw, so she is often listed as Mary Hinshaw Hinshaw. My > ancestors include the Kime's, whose grand-kids also married into the > Musick Family in Central Illinois. Hope some of this helps. > > Arleigh > > ************************ > > The revolution of 1848 was a failure. The socialists managed to obtain > some minor concessions from the nobility. The one major outcome was the > abolition of slavery in Europe. The word slave comes from the east > European tribe, Slav. Emigration from Europe declined markedly. About a > century earlier Henry Kimeâ?Ts mother, Peggy Reitzel, had been the wife of > a minor German Nobleman. On their way across the Atlantic he was swept > overboard and lost. When she arrived in South Carolina she was sold on > the auction block. She escaped from an abusive owner and fled from slave > catchers through the swamps until she reached the religious radical > settlements on the Alamance and married Phillip Kime. > > ************************ > > The Hinshaw's were Quaker. Their ancestors are listed in Fox's Book of > Martyrs. They fled England for freedom in Northern Ireland. From that > island they sailed to the New World. Mary Hinshawâ?Ts family moved to > Pennsylvania. She later married her cousin, William Hinshaw, in northwest > North Carolina, which was still part of Virginia. Mary's brothers and her > husband, William, joined the Regulators. They fought the British on the > Alamance on May 16, 1771. They lost. Mary's brothers were â?oput out of > the Meeting Houseâ? for bearing arms. William later joined the > Continental Army. > > ************************ > > Abraham Lincoln and John Musick joined the volunteers, as did Sally > Bensonâ?Ts sons. Lincoln said: â?oThe only charges I ever led were > against wild onion beds.â? Black Hawk retreated to Wisconsin where he > was taken prisoner by a Winnebago named Chaeter. Colonel Zachary Taylor > assigned the young lieutenants, Robert Anderson and Jefferson Davis, to > take Black Hawk to Jefferson Barracks in St Louis. The Bensonâ?Ts went > back to McLean County, where their parents had moved, and kept marrying > Hinshawâ?Ts. Logan County was a hotbed of Whigs; McLean County was a > stronghold of the Democracy. > > ************************ > > After the Black Hawk War Jeff Davisâ?T friends talked him out of > challenging Colonel Taylor to a duel. Instead he resigned his commission > and eloped with Taylorâ?Ts sixteen year old daughter, Knox. His older > brother, Joseph, sold them a plantation and slaves on the Mississippi, > below Vicksburg. They soon got ague. Knox Taylor died singing Fairie > Bells three months after her wedding. The doctors said Jeff would follow > her, but he recovered and went into politics. George Hinshaw Sr was > elected to the Illinois Tenth General Assembly in 1836. He made all his > trips to Vandalia and Springfield on foot. The Assembly convened a > special assembly on July 10, 1837. There they debated the > Internal-Improvement Bill, a special project of Abraham Lincoln and the > Long Nine. George Hinshaw Sr strongly opposed the measure. When it > passed he asked permission to sign his name in red ink as a protest and so > that the public might better know how he voted. > > ************************ > > Abe Carlock had a big house in White Oak Grove, Illinois. His son, John G > Carlock, married Robert and Sarahâ?Ts daughter, Lucinda Musick. Abe was a > Universalist. He put up traveling ministers of any denomination, as long > as they were willing to stay up to two in the morning discussing doctrine. > For all others he had one question: â?oAre you a Democrat?â? Judge > Davis stayed with Abe Carlock; Abe Lincoln had to sleep down the road at > James Benson and Polly Ann Hinshawâ?Ts. In 1847 the County Seat was moved > to Mt Pulaski. A new court house was built. David Davis was the > presiding judge. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas were among the > most frequent attorneys appearing. > > ************************ > > > [email protected] wrote: > Sir: > > Thanks for your reply...I guess I too misunderstood your family claims. > Just for the record, I might point out that in NE NC somewhere there is a > Hinshaw cemetery. I know it comes down from Quaker times, but don't know > exactly where it is. I think it is near Goldsboro. Thanks for your reply. > > --Gil Hinshaw > > > > > Arleigh Birchler, MDiv, BSN > c/o Helaina Hinson Burton > 69 Gray Ghost Lane > Benson NC 27504 > (919) 934-6323 > > (Ali Sengaree - Allah'ka cli here chaya) > > > Musick/Porter Fan Club > Pleasure, Pain, Power, and Love > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Maybe someone on this email list will recognize Cassius and help Paddi. Paddi wrote on the Howell County, MO email list: > > > I need a obit lookup for Cassius Kimes (6 Apr 1901 - Jan 1992) in West > Plains, Howell County, Missouri. > > Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks > Paddi <[email protected]> > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

Don't know exactly what Paddi is looking for, but this Cassius Kimes appears to be the one she's interested in. Subscribers to this list have shared this info: GEORGE WASHINGTON4 KIMES (DAVID3, VALENTINE2, HEINRICH1 KEIM) born 09 February 1852 in MO, and died 16 June 1943 in Patterson, Wayne Co, MO. He married (1) AVA SINCLAIR Bef. 1878. She was born ca 1859 in MO. He married (2) MARY JANE WARREN ca 1892. She was born July 1867 in VA, and died Aft. 1920. Children of GEORGE KIMES and AVA SINCLAIR are: i. JULIA KIMES, b. August 1877, Patterson, Wayne Co, MO; d. 1940, Wayne Co, MO; m. THOMAS MCCORMICK. ii. JAMES KIMES, b. 1878, Patterson, Wayne Co, MO. iii. ARTHUR DAVID KIMES, b. 05 April 1881, Patterson, Wayne Co, MO; d. 08 June 1974, Des Arc, Iron Co, MO; m. ORA MAY VALLANCE, 16 December 1911, Old Greenville, Wayne Co, MO; b. 05 October 1893, Patterson, Wayne Co, MO; d. 17 January 1990, Piedmont, MO. Children of GEORGE KIMES and MARY WARREN are: iv. // KIMES, b. ???????; d. Bef. 1900. v. GRACE KIMES, b. 28 July 1895; d. 19 February 1987. vi. ESTELLA KIMES, b. February 1898, MO; m. HARRY DONEY. vii. CASSIUS KIMES, b. 06 April 1901; d. 18 January 1992. viii. MARIE KIMES, b. 27 May 1910. Paddi wrote on the Howell County, MO email list: > > I need a obit lookup for Cassius Kimes (6 Apr 1901 - Jan 1992) in West > Plains, Howell County, Missouri. > > Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks > Paddi <[email protected]> > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs