Hinkhouse

HINKHOUSE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/22/2010 at 16:13:14

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Hinkhouse Family
By Brad Holder

The Hinkhouse family is traced as far back as 1727 a.d. in Hanover, Germany. The original family name was Smith or Schmidt, because in those days the family took the name of their trade. Smith was one who worked with metal. But my ancestors emigrated from Bavaria because of their Protestant religion about the time of the Reformation and disguised themselves as Nordics. A warrior member of the family, through acts of bravery against an enemy, received a large tract of land that had a dense forest. The family started clearing the land and ‘Hanging’ houses, (a carpenter). Then the family name changed to Hinghaus.

Throughout history the name has changed its form of spelling for different reasons, from Hedink, Hyngs, Hyings, Hyinghaus and Hinghaus.

My great-great grandpa, Wilhelm Hinghaus had eight children; all but two came to the United States. My great-grandpa, Deitrich Wilhelm was born in Hanover, Germany. As a young man he joined some of his family here in rural Correctionville, Iowa, and changed the family name to Hinkhouse to Americanize the name.

Deitrich Wilhelm Hinkhouse married Paulina ‘Lena’ Blanche Hinkhouse on September 29, 1896. They made their homestead at their family-owned farm outside of Correctionville, Iowa.

Together D W and Lena Blanche Hinkhouse had five children and raised them to Woodbury County, Correctionville, Iowa. My grandma, Mabel Leota Hinkhouse went to country school, in Kedron Township No. 3, primary to eighth grade in Correctionville, then went to High School till the tenth grade. Mr & Mrs D W Hinkhouse’s children’s names were Emery Hinkhouse; my grandma Mabel Leota (Hinkhouse) Holder, born July 13, 1897; Roy William, born May 4, 1899, lived with his brother in Correctionville till his recent death; Walter Roosevelt Hinkhouse, born July 6, 1902, married Olga Marie (Lundell) Hinkhouse on December 27, 1924, in Sioux City; and Cecil Grant Hinkhouse, born May 8, 1911, and still living at his residence in Correctionville, Iowa.

My grandma Mabel Leota Holder is 87 years old, and is a loving person. We seven Holder kids are very grateful to have grown up having her on the farm. We have learned a lot from her and love her very much. Because she has witnessed the coming from horse and buggy to cars, from only radio to TV and so on.

Grandma Mabel Holder is a very active person and she keeps house and does all the cooking and is always doing something around the farm. She is the mother of three, the grandmother of twelve, and even a great-grandma of one. There have been two sets of five generation pictures taken in her life time, too.