Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-13
OBITUARY.

Thomas J. Hinshaw. born December 30.
1872 died June Z, 1896. aged 30 years. months
and days.
The subject of this sketch was a native of
Randolph county. North Carolina. When he
was IL years old his widowed mother moved
with her children to Randolph county. Indi-
ana. where he grew to manhood and lived the
greater part of his life. on his old homestead
including the TOWNSHIP of Lynn. He was
married to Sarah Mills in 1915. To this union
were born fourteen children. nine of whom.
with fOrty-two grandchildren and seven
great-grand children. survive him and re-
main to comfort the aged wife and mother.
his faithful companion for more than half
a century.
Mr. Hinshaw by industry and frugality ac-
cumulated competency and when it was
no longer necessary for him to work in the
field as farmer he turned his attention to
closer study of nature. to which he was
strongly inclined. and was especially inter-
ested in the domestication of wild water
fowl and the rearing of fish. In both efforts
he was successful. his farm being naturally
well adapted to the purpose. This attractive
and comfortable home with considera BILE
other property he lost through a too gener-
Gus endorsement of friends who were inan-
cially unfortunate Although then old
man he retained both his generosity and his
courage and again went west to found
new home With part of his family he
on n tract of school land on the Downer in
1879 Here he lived three years and assisted
in establishing one of the first schools in the
county which was not then organized. In
he filed on "a homestead seven miles south of
Wa-Keeney and at once set about beautify
fruit and forest trees. In this he was more
successful than most pioneers and the day
with ripe fruit and his groves resounding
with the music of a variety of feathered
protection afforded them. His success has
been and will continue to be a source of en-
th.ar.c
loss of his kind advice and his skill in the
cultivation and propagation of new varieties
In politics, Mr.. Hinshaw a WING during
his his early manhood; but since the organiza-
lastly supported its policy and principles.
North Carolina, losing home and property,
was the result of Pro-slayery persecution: 1t
active sympathy with the work of the Under
Ground railway in later years and sought
him for protection. Although he never
wished for position or Office. preferring rath
est in public affairs. even in his declining
years. and was always found supporting
iigence morality and sobriefy: He = was lsei a
lifelong member of the Society of Friends.
lions he was in advance Of his c ON a
Mhiie consistently Supporting the S; fnnda
was open to ministers of other denomina-
days before the adHens of IN and
school houses He sought to know and live
the truth. Liberal in BELIEF and fellowship
he was generous and practical in the mate
rial application of christianity. Many a
freighter and emigrant will long remember
the open hospitality of his modest home
the Ness City road when the nearest railroad
on the south was a hundred miles away.
Nature dealt kindly with him. He was
strong mind in strong body. remarkably
active and well preserved until the last two
years when he began to fail from apoplexy-
His last illness was of three weeks duration
but the iron constitution yielded at last His
death was not unexpected and found him
prepar ed-hiS house in order. Rev. Beatty
I'm aryit. at he fam ly
residence Monday forenoon where large
number of friends and neigh bors gathered to
pay the last sad respects to a kind friend
who had lived long and died without enc
my. The remains were inferred in the wa
Keeney cemetery.
Grandpa Hinshaw is gone. His venerable
face will be missed by old and young and the
entire community extends sincere sympathy
to the bereaved family. His was a long life.
we'll spent; noble example, worthy of emu
lation. May we all be like him. -