#1 Published in Enterprise on 29 January 1942

PIONEER WOMAN PASSES AWAY

CAME TO THIS PLACE IN 1860. ATTENDED FIRST SCHOOL IN DISTRICT

Mrs. William Hinkle passed away Tuesday after being in ill health for several months. Had she lived until April 20, she would have reached 83 years.

With her parents, Ann Carter came to this county in 1860 when this state was a territorial possession. Her father and family made the trip from Cincinnati, Ohio, by boat on the Ohio River and then north on the Missouri to Omaha, then nothing but a boat landing. From Omaha the family and possessions came to this vicinity with a mule team and wagon.

Her father and two of his brothers homesteaded the site now occupied by Blair and later sold the land to the railroad company for the founding of Blair which was started in 1869.

Mrs. Hinkle grew to womanhood here and was in attendance at the first school held in the district, which was held in a log school house located in what is now known as the Rhoades park at the southwest entrance to the present city of Blair. During her long life, Mrs. Hinkle has lived in Blair with the exception of five years spent in homesteading in Grant county.

Of the family only one is left, Mrs. Maude Campbell of Helena, Montana. She came Wednesday to be present at the funeral rites which are to be held Friday at 2:00 p.m.from the Baptist church and interment will be made in the Blair cemetery.

Rev. Hamilton is to give the funeral address and the burial will be under the supervision of C.K. Bendorf, mortician.

Mrs. Hinkle, to the last, kept her faculties and her keen mind and pleasant ways made her a general favorite. She delighted in relating the incidents of her pioneer days which she remembered with a vividness that comes to but few.

The Enterprise extends sympathy to the grief stricken husband and sister in their great bereavement.

#2 Printed in the January 29, 1942 Pilot-Tribune, Blair, Nebraska

Mrs. Ann Carter Hinkel(sic), 82, resident of this vicinity since 1860, and one of the oldest Washington County pioneers, died Tuesday at her home on West Nebraska Street. The body was taken to the Bendorf Funeral Home. Services were held Friday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church; the Rev. C. E. Hamilton officiated. The Rebekah Lodge, to which Mrs. Henkel has belonged half a century, will assist with the services. Burial will be in Blair Cemetery.

Alma Ann Carter was born April 20, 1859, at Rome, Ohio, and came to Blair the following year with her parents, the late Nathan and Martha Stout Carter. She had remained here since. She was married to William Hinkel February 23, 1916, at St. Joseph, Missouri. Besides belonging to the Rebekah Lodge, Mrs. Hinkel had membership to the Eastern Star Lodge of Fort Calhoun.

Surviving are her husband, also sister, Mrs. Will Campbell Sr. of Helena, Montana. Mrs. Campbell will be here for the funeral.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

(The website Find A Grave lists her full name as Alma Ann Carter Hinkle.)

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