Re: ALL GINN Researchers - INDIANA/PA/OH/CANADA
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In reply to:
ALL GINN Researchers - INDIANA/PA/OH/CANADA
Jon Clark 2/01/05
Our family records are as follows:
John Ginn (b. Abt. 1784 in County of Dongal, Ireland d. 10/29/1841) m. Isabella Gurthery (b. Abt.1789 in Ireland, d. 4/29/1863 in Union Twp., Delaware County, Indiana.
Sarah Ginn (b. Ireland 1818, died 1896) m. James Hinton
They had 6 children:
Joseph Hinton (b. 1838 d. 1917)
Serepta Hinton (b. 1840 d. 1873)
Mary Jane Hinton
Infant
Infant
Amanda Isabelle Hinton (11/22/1849-1/26/1929)
In June 1837, James Hinton bought the Hinton farm of 160 acres. He joined the gold rush in 1849. He went to New Orleans and then by boat to the Isthmus of Panama where he died. (We have a transcript of the letter he wrote to friends and family from Panama dated November 15, 1849). His widow, Sarah Ginn Hinton married William Long on April 26, 1865.
Sarah Ginn had two brothers Liberty and Joseph Ginn. Amanda Hinton Mansfield told her daughter (Ruth Mansfield Coe) the following, “Liberty Ginn was captured by the Indians. He had to run the ‘gauntlet’; he turned cartwheels, making his tormentors howl with laughter. They stopped hitting him with axes and knives. Later they made him a member of their tribe.”