Headstones of The Henkle/Hinkle Family
Ephraim & Mary Susan (Carr) Henkle
Ephraim Henkle, farmer and stock-raiser, Washington. His parents(William & Barbara (Henkle) Henkle) were natives of Virginia. They came to Ohio in a early day, and located on the waters of main Paint Creek, one mile and a half above Washington. Here the subject of this asketch was born, April 23 1818. At the age of ten his mother died, his aunt (mother's siter) raised Ephraim and from that time up to the present, Mr. Henkle has had to care for himself ( the father abandoning the family).
Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel/Hinkle is 3rd Great Grandfather to Ephraim and Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel/Hinkle Great Great Granddaughter to Barbara (Henkle) Henkle Ephraim's mother). Barbara's parents Isaac & Susannah (?) Henkle, Isaac's parents, Jacob Sr. & Barbara Marie (Dieter/Teter) Henkle, Jacob's parents, John Justus Sr. & Mary Margaret ( Eschmann) Henckel/Hinkle, John's parents, Anthony Jacob & Maria Elizabeth (Dentzer) Henckel/Hinkle.
He married Miss Mary S. Carr, daughter of Joshua Carr, March 12, 1840. In 1848 he bought seventy-eight acres of land in this township, some three miles west from the town of Washington, ( now Washington Court House, Ohio) paying eight dollars per acre for the same. He at once removed to this farm, and has remained there until the present time.
Mrs. Henkle died March 4 1871. They were the parents of ten children, five sones and five daughters: Ellen, died when a young woman, in the twenty-second year of her age; Mary Jane, married James A. Bush, and lives on her father's farm; William L. ,married and lives on his farm in the neighborhood; Jason F., is thirty-four years of age, married to his second wife, and living in the town of Jasper. He is an ordained minister of the gospel in the Methodist Protestant Church, has been in the regular pastoral work for nearly sixty years, and is now serving his church in that relation at home, where he was born and ised. Noah S., is single, remaining at home with his father, and cultivating a portion of the home farm. Joel E., is married, and lives on his own farm in the neighborhood. Jesse C., is married, and lives in Madison County. Catherine J., is married, and lives in Jasper Township. Amanda S., is married, and lives in Bainbridge, Ross County. Almenda Lorena is single, and keeps house for her father.
Probably no man in the county has been more successful in the raising of a good family of children than Mr. Henkle. He has been them all grown up to manhood and womanhooh, kind, honest, industrious, religious ( all being members of the Methodist Protestant Church). He has always been a public spirited man, a ma of enterprise and activity. For many years he served the county as infirmary director, giving the most perfect satisfaction, and for years acted as assessor of the township. Although over age, yet at the earnest request of his mant friends, he served as captain in the hundred day's service, and was taken prisoner at Cynthiana, Kentucky. He owns a most excellent farm of one hundred and sixty acres, where he resides, paying as high as one hundred dollars per acre, without any buildings, for a portion of it. This is one of the best farms of its size in the country.
The above Is From The Book: History of Fayette County, together with Historic Notes on the Northwest and the State of Ohio, by R. S. Dills
Ordell & Mayer Publishers, Dayton, Ohio 1881
Ephriam and Mary's family lay behind the Ephraim and Mary's headstone, next several pages have the other family members headstones posted and information.
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