Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Research notes for Mary Catharine Lentz
Yet another AWT ttaces the ancestry of Katharine Lentz, wife of Jonathan Hinkle. Her parents were John Lentz and wife Elizabeth Lentz daughter of Dewalt. Katharine was born, it says, in Rowan County, NC in 1817. John Lentz was the son of Peter Lentz of Rockland Township, Berks County (where Mertz Church is located) and Mary Magdalena Hartline. John’s ancestry is traced to his German ancestors.
Census History notes for Jonathan Jefferson (Spouse 1)
1850. Jonathan Hinkle farmer age 48 lies in Bloomington, Monroe Co, IL with Catharine 31 and 7 children including Margaret 11.
1860. J J Hinkle farmer age 55 born NC lives in Bloomington with Catharine 46, Margaret A 21, Catharine 16, William J 13 and four younger sons.
1860. J J Hinkle farmer age 55 born NC lives in Bloomington with Catharine 46, Margaret A 21, Catharine 16, William J 13 and four younger sons.
Research notes for Jonathan Jefferson (Spouse 1)
http://www.in.gov/dnr/files/hinkle_garton.pdf
The link is to an application to have the John Henry Hinkle farm in Bloomington, IN designated a National Historic Strucutre. It provides some biography of this family.
“John Henry’s father, Jonathan Jefferson (JJ) Hinkle arrived with his widowed mother, Barbara Seitz Hinkle, several siblings and, very possibly, others from their region around 1816 from 550 miles away in Lincoln County, western North Carolina.
JJ’s father, Anthony Hinkle had been an innkeeper in the Revolutionary War in Chester County, Pennsylvania, a slave owner in 1800 in eastern Lincoln County, North Carolina, then lived in western Lincoln County, NC with no slaves in 1810, fought in the War of 1812 and died, perhaps from a war injury, in 1814.
After settling his father’s estate and migrating to Monroe County with his family, JJ Hinkle apprenticed with blacksmith Austin Seward for a time, then moved to the woods and established a farm—most likely along the top of the ridge above Griffy Creek—as was common in this early period of development in the county.
JJ Hinkle bought a lot of property in his lifetime, supported a family of 11, 10 who survived at the time of his death in 1882, and was said to be a prosperous farmer in his obituary.
John Henry Hinkle’s mother, Mary Catharine Lentz Hinkle, was also born in North Carolina (1814) and migrated from Lincoln County. There is some indication that his parents’ families were acquainted in North Carolina. They were married in 1830 and had eleven children, the second born as early as 1832 in Monroe County.
John Henry was born in 1854 in the Griffy Creek area. The Hinkle-Stancomb Farm at 2710 Bethel Lane, identified in the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory: Monroe County, is quite possibly the JJ Hinkle Farmstead. Monroe County plat records show that Jonathan Hinkle and his brother George owned much of the land in this vicinity around Griffy Creek.
In 1877, JJ and Mary Catharine’s tenth child, John Henry Hinkle, married Hattie E Rogers, a descendant of the Rogers family who were also early settlers of Bloomington, and moved to Illinois near other family members to farm, but returned to Bloomington after her death. In 1884, he married Laura Ann Rawlins in Orleans; she was born in 1859 near Paragon in Morgan County. The couple lived first in the Griffy Creek area then purchased the first forty acres and moved to the Hinkle Garton Farmstead in 1886. John Henry Hinkle died in 1935.”
The link is to an application to have the John Henry Hinkle farm in Bloomington, IN designated a National Historic Strucutre. It provides some biography of this family.
“John Henry’s father, Jonathan Jefferson (JJ) Hinkle arrived with his widowed mother, Barbara Seitz Hinkle, several siblings and, very possibly, others from their region around 1816 from 550 miles away in Lincoln County, western North Carolina.
JJ’s father, Anthony Hinkle had been an innkeeper in the Revolutionary War in Chester County, Pennsylvania, a slave owner in 1800 in eastern Lincoln County, North Carolina, then lived in western Lincoln County, NC with no slaves in 1810, fought in the War of 1812 and died, perhaps from a war injury, in 1814.
After settling his father’s estate and migrating to Monroe County with his family, JJ Hinkle apprenticed with blacksmith Austin Seward for a time, then moved to the woods and established a farm—most likely along the top of the ridge above Griffy Creek—as was common in this early period of development in the county.
JJ Hinkle bought a lot of property in his lifetime, supported a family of 11, 10 who survived at the time of his death in 1882, and was said to be a prosperous farmer in his obituary.
John Henry Hinkle’s mother, Mary Catharine Lentz Hinkle, was also born in North Carolina (1814) and migrated from Lincoln County. There is some indication that his parents’ families were acquainted in North Carolina. They were married in 1830 and had eleven children, the second born as early as 1832 in Monroe County.
John Henry was born in 1854 in the Griffy Creek area. The Hinkle-Stancomb Farm at 2710 Bethel Lane, identified in the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory: Monroe County, is quite possibly the JJ Hinkle Farmstead. Monroe County plat records show that Jonathan Hinkle and his brother George owned much of the land in this vicinity around Griffy Creek.
In 1877, JJ and Mary Catharine’s tenth child, John Henry Hinkle, married Hattie E Rogers, a descendant of the Rogers family who were also early settlers of Bloomington, and moved to Illinois near other family members to farm, but returned to Bloomington after her death. In 1884, he married Laura Ann Rawlins in Orleans; she was born in 1859 near Paragon in Morgan County. The couple lived first in the Griffy Creek area then purchased the first forty acres and moved to the Hinkle Garton Farmstead in 1886. John Henry Hinkle died in 1935.”