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individual record

id
first
middle
last
dob
dod
cod
97Infant GirlHinman9/4/1849

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
FALSEAdams Street

lot
plot
R12 G1, east face
relations
D. Hinman (father) Mary Hinman (mother)

comments
This baby girl was born to David and Mary Hinman, pioneering settlers of Middleburg Twp. Rev. David Hinman was born 9 Apr 1797 in Oxford, New Haven, CT. He married his first wife, Malinda (Bassett?), on 5 August 1819 in CT (Hinman family folder, Berea Historical Society). David and Malinda buried a son, Albert, in 1834: this is the cemetery's oldest marked burial. The inscription for the infant girl is just below Albert's on the family stone. Malinda Hinman died in 1836 and is also buried in the family lot, as is his second wife, the infant girl's mother, Mary Squire, whom he married in Huron County, OH, on 20 July 1837. The baby 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 the infant's inscription was recorded in 1934: "Infant dau of David & Mary, died Sep 4, 1849, ae 22 days." In 2007, the inscription was found to be worn but legible. 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 Infant 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, Infant Girl, Jasmine Horn, 12 November 2007.