David Ernest (7 May 1932-8 Dec 2010) — m. Lily E. Hannan on 8 Apr 1973
John Robert (30 Apr 1936-24 Feb 2018) — m. Louise Bean on 24 Oct 1964
Eleanor Jeanne (1937)
Kenneth Charles
Ken was born in Rangeley, Maine, the second of six children to Ernest Carroll Hinkley and Inza Belle Toothaker.
Alice was born in Au Gres, Michigan, the youngest of four daughters to Charles Condon Hodsdon and Catherine Lucinda Umphrey. The Hodsdons moved from Michigan to Penobscot, Maine, near Charles’s home town of Castine, in 1913.
Ken was a graduate of the University of Maine with a bachelor’s degree in forestry, and of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York with a master’s degree in the same subject. Alice was a nurse, and worked for a time at the Castine hospital. I don’t know where or when they met, but they married on 1 Aug 1931 in Rangeley.
They lived in New Hampshire while Ken was working for the Civilian Conservation Corps. Later, when he was working for the Maine Forest Service, they lived in Castine on the coast of Maine, and then in Upton on the western edge of the state. They were in Upton in 1940, but the census missed them.
In the 1940s, Ken was the state fire warden for the area around Rangeley, extending to the New Hampshire border. He also negotiated logging rights with lumber and paper companies on behalf of the heirs of 19th century land barons Ebenezer Coe and David Pingree, who owned huge tracts of Maine forest.
After Ken’s mother died on 1 July 1945, they moved from Upton to Rangeley, bringing the family cow, Redbird. They initially lived with Ken’s father on Main Street, near the center of town. After Ken’s father died on 2 February 1946, they moved to 2388 Main Street, which backed onto a small golf course used by guests at the large hotel overlooking the lake. By 2016, the hotel had long since been torn down, the golf course had reverted to woods, and the house was a realtor’s office.
In 1957 or 1958, Ken was promoted, and the family moved from Rangeley to 49 Pleasant Hill Road on the outskirts of Augusta. Ken and Alice lived there until about 1981, and then moved to another, smaller house closer to the center of town.
In the 1960s and through the 1970s, Ken and Alice had a summer camp on Route 4 across from Beaver Mountain Lake, also called Long Pond – a few miles south of Rangeley where Ken was born and raised, and a few miles west-northwest of Madrid where generations of his ancestors had lived. I can’t find the camp anymore. It was probably torn down. Well, it did lack running water (it had an outhouse, and a hand-operated water pump out back) and central heating (it had a wood stove).
Ken died in Augusta in 1992. Alice died in 1995. Their ashes are buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Rangeley, Maine, next to the grave of Ken’s parents. The grave is just past the Furbish mausoleum and is flanked by two Leyland cypress trees.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQX-R6N -- 1907 birth of Ken
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCNX-4ZK -- 1931 wedding
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCV5-3SV -- 1992 death of Ken
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42014035 -- 1992 grave, Ken
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179967094/alice-minnie-hinkley -- 1995 grave, Alice
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mefrankl/egrcem.htm -- Evergreen Cemetery, Rangeley
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JBJF-6YZ -- 2010 death of David
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62864777 -- 2010 grave, David
http://www.dailybulldog.com/db/obituaries/john-r-hinkley-1936-2018/ -- 2018 obituary for John
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mainetoday-centralmaine/name/john-hinkley-obituary?id=8746143 -- same
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187639048/john-r_-hinkley -- 2018 grave, John