West Virginia Pioneers

Cordelia Kiser

Female 1885 - 1953  (67 years)


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  • Name Cordelia Kiser 
    Nickname Corda 
    Born 26 Jun 1885  Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    Died 9 Feb 1953  Nicholas County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Buried Mt View Memorial Park, Nicholas Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 

    • Name: Cordelia Hinkle
      Sex: Female
      Death Date: 9 Feb 1953
      Death Place: Richwood, Nicholas, West Virginia
      Age at Death: 66y 7m 13d
      Cemetery: Mt View Memorial Park
      Birth Date: 6/26/1886
      Birth Place: Jackson Co, WV
      Marital Status: married
      Mother: Julian Skeen
      Father: Jefferson Kiser
      Informant: James Hinkle, Richwood, WV
    Person ID I43323  WVPioneers
    Last Modified 1 Dec 2008 

    Father Thomas Jefferson Lee Kiser,   b. 19 Nov 1862, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jun 1930, Nicholas County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Telitha Skeen,   b. 3 Dec 1866, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Nov 1898, Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 31 years) 
    Married 17 Aug 1883  Jackson County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Notes 

    • Jackson County Marriage Record
      Jefferson D Kiser, 21, Jackson (New Kentuck)
      Telitha Skeen, 17, Jackson 8/17/1883

      Jackson County Birth Records
      Kiser, Alberda 9/18/1886 JL & Tabitha Kiser JC farmer
      Kiser, I G 1/24/1884 Jeff & Tabitha JC farmer (f) Checked 1900 image, both Sarah J and Cordia are born June. This is probably Sarah?
      Kiser, Martha 2/25/1892 John L & Lebitha JC farmer

      1900 Union, Jackson, WV # 160-162
      Kiser, Jefferson 11/1863 m 0y WV WV WV
      Julie P wife 9/1874 m 0y 0-0 child WV WV WV
      Sarah J da 6/1884 15 WV WV WV
      Cordea da 6/1885 14 WV WV WV
      Leer G da 9/1886 13 WV WV WV
      Martha M da 2/1892 8 WV WV WV
      Nancy O da 6/1882 7 WV WV WV
      Alva da 6/1884 age 5

      1910 Falling Spring, Greenbrier, WV # 458
      Kiser, Jefferson 48 wd
      Martha da 19
      Goldie da 6
      Thomas O son 3
    Family ID F8476  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family James Blaine Hinkle,   b. 10 Feb 1884, Nicholas County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Sep 1964, Nicholas County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married Abt 1907 
    Notes 

    • 1910 Falling Spring, Greenbrier, WV # 471
      Hinkle, James B 25 m1 - 3y
      Cordia 23 m1- 3y 1-1 child
      Elbert H son 2

      1920 Beaver, Nicholas, WV # 443-451 all WVWVWV
      Hinkle, James B 36
      Cordie 35
      Elbert H son 11
      Austin B son 7
      Bucher son 3.10
      Clarence son 2.4

      1930 Beaver, Nicholas, WV # 290-313
      Hinkle, James 46 m age 23
      Cordia 43 m age 20
      Elbert son 21 s
      Austin son 18
      Beecher son 14
      Clarence son 12
      Lewis son 6

      From Austin Hinkle:
      They had five sons who were known locally as the house of giants as the five boys averaged 240 pounds. Their names: Albert "Ned", Austin B., Clarence "Chink", Beecher, and Lewis "Lee"

      Austin B. was on the aircraft carrier,"Bunker Hill" during WWII when it got hit by torpedo and suiside bombers. Austin was in the engine room at the time of the attack. the compartment doors were locked and he spent three days in total darkness, in water to his waist. He was the only person to come out of the engine room alive. The air was so smoky from burning aircraft fuel that they could hardly breathe. Air was in such short supply that he would not even answer the commands from above, but just go and do what was needed. Time after time they would swing the ship around to wash the burning fuel overboard. Finally when there was only two of them left, the said that there was only a three inch hole that they could breathe through and the other fellow would not share it with me, but I knew where there was a large wrench. He would never say more than that about it. When they finally brought them out, Austin was laid out with the dead, but regained conciousness. He was offered a purple heart but refused it, said that he just wanted to go home. He never married and lived the rest of his life in the same home with his mother, father, and brother Lewis.

      Albert lived in a little house about a quarter mile up the mountain road. He married, Wilma Short. They had two sons James, born about 1935. I think that he is still living in Richwood, and Austin B. born about 1942, also living in Richwood. Albert's wife died about 1951 at home with Cancer.

      Clarence"Chink" was a school teacher and Coach in Cowen, WV. I don't know much about his family.

      Beecher married a woman that went by Johnie. Don't know her last name. Beecher was a school teacher in the Nicholas County system. I read an article in the newspaper about him that said he had taught for thirty years and never missed a day or never was late. Beecher held the Golden Golves for WV when he was in school, and had, I believe two Master's degrees. He never had any children but loved them. He always had one or two around who usually were children with problems. He would just take them in and teach them until he got them straightened out. He was the family historian. He wrote many articles on the Hinkle family that were published in the Richwood Newspapers "The Hill Billy and News Leader" I believe that My brother has most of those articles and when I get back to the US in May, I will get them. I wrote Beecher just before he died, at 91, and sent him a FEDEX number to ship what he had to me which he was going to do but died before he could get it done.

      Lewis "Lee" was the youngest, was in the Korean War, never married. He was invited to the University of WV to play football which he started to do but because of his drinking problem they soon sent him home. He and Austin lived out their days in the same home that their parents had had. Albert, Austin, and Lewis drank a lot. I don't think that Clarence ever drank and I know that Beecher never even tasted it.
    Children 
     1. Albert H Hinkle,   b. Abt 1907, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Austin B Hinkle,   b. Abt 1912, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Beecher Hinkle,   b. 1916, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jan 2006, Nicholas County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years)
     4. Clarence Hinkle,   b. 25 Aug 1918, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Nov 2003, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
     5. Lewis Hinkle,   b. Abt 1924, West Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F17333  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S1205] Census.

    2. [S479] Death records, West Virginia Division of Culture and History.

    3. [S17] Marriage Records, Jackson Co, WV.