Hinkle - William M.
WILLIAM M. HINKLE
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co, Indiana April 19, 1906
LIFELONG FRIENDS - Frank P. Brown and William M. Hinkle, of New Market, are dead. THEY WERE BOYS TOGETHER - After Reaching the Ripe Old Age of Three Score and Ten They Die the Same Day
Frank P. Brown and William Hinkle two lifelong friends and neighbors of New Market are dead. When young these boys attended the same schools and sported over the same hills near Georgetown, Ky. About fifty years ago they came to Indiana and settled near the present town of New Market and have lived ever since as neighbors. When the Vandalia railway was constructed about thirty-five years ago the Whites laid out the town of New Market. Among the first to buy lots and build houses in the town were Mr. Brown and Mr. Hinkle. Both have resided in these dwellings since that time. Both were tall men of the sturdy Kentucky type with black hair and light blue eyes. Both were kind, honest, upright, with a touch of that fine southern hospitality that made friends for them of all who knew them. Both were lifelong Democrats and both were church members. They were the same age, seventy-one years and died within a day. Mr. Brown died Thursday night and his lifelong friend the next night at about the same hour. Both will be buried in the same cemetery by the same funeral director. Mr. Brown leaves a wife, Nancy A., daughter of Jesse Vancleave, and an adopted daughter, Mrs. Grant Clouse, of this city. He owned besides his New Market property an eighty acre farm near there which was tilled until a few years ago by his boyhood friend. Just before Mr. Brown died he thought of his old friend and remarked to the friends at his side, "William will be next. He will soon follow me to the grave". Mr. Brown was a member of the Christian church at New Market. The funeral occurred this afternoon. Burial at the New Market cemetery. Mr. Hinkle leaves a wife, Rebecca, and three grown children. They are James Hinkle and Mrs. Edgar Wray, of New Market and Mrs. Theodore Johnson of three miles south of New Market. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist church. The funeral will probably occur on Friday. Thus, after a journey through life, side by side, using the same path, experiencing almost the same joys and the same woes, these venerable citizens of New Market laid down life's burdens together.
Thanks so very much Sue P for this one :)