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individual record

id
first
middle
last
dob
dod
cod
93AlbertHinman5/26/18335/16/1834

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
FALSEAdams Street

lot
plot
R12 G1 east face, oldest recorded burial in cemetery
relations
David Hinman (father) Malinda Hinman (mother)

comments
Albert Hinman is the infant son of David and Malinda Hinman. Rev. David Hinman was born 9 Apr 1797 in Oxford, New Haven, CT. He married Malinda (Bassett?) on 5 August 1819 in CT (Hinman family folder, Berea Historical Society). David was a pioneer of Middleburg Twp., with evidence of their residence here from the 1830s: Albert's burial in 1834 is the cemetery's oldest marked burial. David's first wife, Malinda Bassett, died in 1836 and is also buried in the family lot, as is his second wife, Mary Squire, whom he married in Huron County, OH, on 20 July 1837. Albert was not enumerated in any census, but there is more information on the Hinman family in the entry for David Hinman. There are no records of burials before 1856, but Albert's inscription was recorded in 1904: "Albert Hinman, son of D. and Malinda Hinman, d. May 16, 1854 [sic], ae. 11 mo" and in 1934 as "Albert, son of David & Malinda, died May 16, 1834, age 11 mo." In 2007, the inscription was found to be worn but legible. An inscription for "infant daughter" is also on the east face of the stone. Albert, infant daughter of David and Mary, Rev. David, Mary, and Malinda Hinman have a sandstone family monument and personal headstones. The lot number is 107. A magnifier was used to examine the grain. The marker is grey and all sides of the marker have an inscription. This monument commemorates the five aforementioned people. It was also not decorative. The marker is discolored and the words are starting to fade. The inscription is mostly legible, but some parts were extremely difficult to read. The carving was incised. The stone reads, “ALBERT [son] of [David and Malinda] HINMAN DIED M[ay] 16, 1834 {A…..M….] [Infant] DAUGHT[ER] of David [and] May HINMAN DIED Sept. 4, 1849 A[ge]d 22 Day REV. DAVID HINMAN DIED Nov. 14, 1862 AGED 65 YEARS MALINDA WIFE OF DAVID HINMAN DIED April 26, 1836 Aged 41 Years MARY WIFE OF DAVID HINMAN DIED Jan 28, 1871 AGED 82 YEARS.”

sources
E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 "Number of burial lots and price," Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society Albert Hinman tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, 2006. Don Labaj, Berea Families CD, 2006. Hinman family genealogy, Hinman family folder, Berea Historical Society Baldwin Wallace College History Dept. Cemetery Documentation Project, Albert Hinman, Jasmine Horn, 12 November 2007.