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Matthew Hindman

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Matthew Hindman

Birth
Savannah, Ashland County, Ohio, USA
Death
8 Dec 1909 (aged 74)
Burial
Iberia, Morrow County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
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father: Samuel
mother: Mckernan

From “History of Morrow County and Ohio”: Matthew Hindman, farmer, was born in Savannah, Ashland Co. Ohio, April 23, 1835. His parents were Samuel and Anna (McKeeman) Hindman. Mr. Hindman’s ancestry is Scotch-Irish — the paternal descent being Irish, and the maternal, Scotch. His mother died in 1841, and with his father he came to Iberia the following winter, and here has since resided. He married Miss Lucinda Noble of that place in 1858, and has six children living - Eva, Cynthia, Maggie T., Jennie P., French M. and Iva Grace. Mr. Hindman has a fine farm of upwards of a hundred acres east of Iberia, on the Mansfield and Marion road; this farm he superintends, while he is also engaged in a Life Insurance Agency for the Mutual Endowment and Relief Association of Cardington, of which association he is one of the directors. As a young man Matthew and his brother James were active in moving runaway slaves northward on the Underground Railroad. They worked from a stop in Marion and moved slaves to Iberia. Matthew also served as a trustee of the Ohio Central College in Iberia.
father: Samuel
mother: Mckernan

From “History of Morrow County and Ohio”: Matthew Hindman, farmer, was born in Savannah, Ashland Co. Ohio, April 23, 1835. His parents were Samuel and Anna (McKeeman) Hindman. Mr. Hindman’s ancestry is Scotch-Irish — the paternal descent being Irish, and the maternal, Scotch. His mother died in 1841, and with his father he came to Iberia the following winter, and here has since resided. He married Miss Lucinda Noble of that place in 1858, and has six children living - Eva, Cynthia, Maggie T., Jennie P., French M. and Iva Grace. Mr. Hindman has a fine farm of upwards of a hundred acres east of Iberia, on the Mansfield and Marion road; this farm he superintends, while he is also engaged in a Life Insurance Agency for the Mutual Endowment and Relief Association of Cardington, of which association he is one of the directors. As a young man Matthew and his brother James were active in moving runaway slaves northward on the Underground Railroad. They worked from a stop in Marion and moved slaves to Iberia. Matthew also served as a trustee of the Ohio Central College in Iberia.


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