Responding to messages from a while back, an extensive article on Col. Jesse Hinkle, his marriage, and his liason with Catharine Harper, was published by Mary Harter in Volume 17 the "Henckel Genealogical Bulletin" (1986) and is available from me. Their children appear as both Harpers and Hinkles in the records and information on each of these 11 children is included in the article. Jesse's only child by his only wife Charlotte Hively was Israel. Mary's article discusses the controversies among the early Hinkle historians to make Jesse's children all legitimate. She also furnishes a full transcript of the information which was edited in The Henckel Genealogy in order that the family appear "socially correct." Except for Israel, his other children appear variously in records as both Harper and Hinkle and were born before and after his marriage to Charlotte Hively. We have just too many Jesse Hinkles and Jesse Harpers in Pendleton County. Marsha Fuller the Harper Historian and I have spent several years trying to sort these out and not been terribly successful. Mary Harter does not include a son with ? Ingle and we have nothing beyond the mention in The Henckel Genealogy that such a liason occured. Considering the inaccuracies in this book for his other children, it would not seem to be a very reliable source on any of this family. Mary Harter identified a son Jesse Hinkle as the man named Jesse Hinkle who married Elizabeth Pierce in Pendleton County on 14 Jan. 1831 (Pend Co Reg. of Marriages 1800, page 24.) This couple as Jesse and Elizabeth Harper deeded her interests in the Pierce land. They moved to Iowa prior to 1850. The name flip-flop and their association with his Harper/Hinkle siblings in Iowa indicate that this placement is probably correct. This younger Jesse was born prior to Col. Jesse's marriage to Charlotte Hively 27 Aug. 1818 (Pend. Co. Reg. of Marriages 1800, page 10). Now, the Jesse who married (1) Mary Eve Bible. The Pend. Co. death record of this Jesse does not give his parents. His marriage record on 7 June 1870 (Pend Co Reg of Marriages 1853, page 18) to the widow Emma J. Pennington, gives his age as 48 and his parents as Col. Jesse Hinkle, mother not named. By the time the 1870 census is taken a couple of months later he as added 4 years to his age and become 52! Either way, he was born ca. 1818-1822, and several years after the Jesse above who married in 1831. The earlier of this age range is probably correct since he married Mary Eve Bible 3 Jan 1837 (Reg. of Marriages 1800, page 44). In 1850 he was 31 and in 1860 aged 41 (born ca. 1819) and was 9 years younger than his wife! Who was the mother of this Jesse? We may never know. Noting the dates here is interesting. Jesse married Charlotte Hively 27 August 1818 and their only known child Israel was born 28 June 1819 according to his tombstone. (Pend Co. Grave Register 1977, page 11--Henckel Gen. has the wrong date.) Then we have another son Jesse born about this same time, or at least soon enough that he married in 1837. And Rachel Harper/Hinkle, probably another daugher, married in 1937 Wellington Holland and appears as aged 32 in the 1850 census, thus born ca. 1818. Perhaps there were 3 different females involved! What a tangled web we weave . . . . . . Nedra Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist brillnd@pacifier.com Historian, Henckel Family National Association Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, wvpendle-l@rootsweb.com