Edward Payson Hinman

  General Notes:

Per Warren Forsythe on Rootsweb.

1860 No. Reading, MA
Ingols Damon age 62 MA
Jane Damon age 29 MA - blind
[Edward P, Hinman age 15 born ME is living next door with Samuel and Phebe Wescott b. 1804 MA and listed as a cordwainer (shoemaker) also in that household are 4 members of the Simpson family and a 71 yr old Esra Damon who is the probable brother of Ingalls]

NEHGS - 6 Dec 1863 - North Reading marriage records [1st marriage for both]
Edward P. Hinman age 19; cordwainer; born Waterford, ME; s/o Wm B and Mary Hinman
Jane Damon age 33; born Reading; d/o Ingalls and Hannah Damon

Special Dispatch to the BOSTON JOURNAL -18 Feb 1867
The inquest in the case of Ingalls Damon, the old man whose remains were found in the ruins of his barn, which was burned Wednesday evening, was concluded on Saturday (Feb 16) and resulted in the arrest of Edward P. Hinman, the husband of Damon's daughter.......The testimony on Thursday, the first day of the inquest, was not conclusive except as to the facts that the remains were those of Damon and that the deceased and Hinman had quarreled in November.
Hinman testified that he was at Damon's house with his wife on the afternoon of the fire , but did not see Mr. Damon, though there a half an hour and that he had not seen him since December. Said he knew nothing of the fire until told the next morning. Went there to get his wife's clothes. He gave an account - but not a very full one- of his whereabouts on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The inquest was adjourned to Saturday at which time it was developed that Hinman admitted to a wirness that he had stolen five ten dollar notes from the old man when he called there Wednesday afternoon, and that it laid loose in a drawer. Other witnesses testified to Hinman's paying out sums of money in Wednesday morning.
There was testimony in regard to tracks which corresponded with those of Hinman.
The jury returned a verdict that deceased came to his death by the hand of Hinman between 3pm on Tuesday and the last time the deceased was seen on Wednesday at 9 pm.
An examination was held today at Town Hall, North Reading..... C. P. Dadd appeared for the accused. But a small amount of evidence was offered and the examination was adjourned to Monday Feb 25 at East Cambridge, and the prisoner was remanded to the jail at that place.
Hinman is a fine looking man, about twenty-two years of age, and over six feet in height. He asserts his innocence and appears willing that full investigation should be held. His wife is blind and thirty-six years of age. They have been married three years and have one child."


BOSTON HERALD - 27 Feb 1867
"THE NORTH READING TRAGEDY - Edward P. Hinman who was arrested for the murder of Ingalls Damon in North Reading, and afterwards burning the barn in which the body had been placed for the purpose of destroyuing evidence of the crime was brought before Trial Justice Hartshorn yesterday and was fully committed to await the action of the Supreme court in June next. The prisoner was then remanded to the East Cambridge jail."
and
6 July 1867
DISCHARGED-
"the Grand Jury of Middlesex county returned no bill of indictment on Tuesday last against Edward P. Hinman charged with the murder of his father in law Ingalls Damon at North Reading in February inst , and he was discharged."

1870 North Reading, Middlesex county, MA
Edward P. Hinman b. 1845 ME
Jane Hinman 1832 MA
Mary J. Hinman b. 1867 MA
Frederick D. Hinman born 1869 MA

divorced 21 May 1872 per research of Warren Forsythe on www.rootsweb.com

1880 Lawrence, Essex, MA
He is listed as Edward Inman age 36 and divorced and a boarder living with his sister Ellen A. Thompson and her husband Wm and children and working as a farm laborer. He has listed as a disability: "Crushed between cars" [hard to read this entry]

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Edward P Hinman Titles & Terms: Event: Marriage Event Date: 03 Jul 1889 Event Place: Salem, Massachusetts Gender: Male Age: 45 Marital Status: Unknown Race: Birth Date: Birthplace: Waterford, Me Marriage Registration Year: Marriage Registration Place: Estimated Birth Year: 1844 Father: William Father's Titles & Terms: Mother: Mary Mother's Titles & Terms: Spouse: Emma E Miller Spouse's Titles & Terms: Spouse's Race: Spouse's Marital Status: Single Spouse's Father: Francis Spouse's Father's Titles & Terms: Spouse's Mother: Celia
or
NH Marriage records:
Edward P Hinman Marriage Date: 3 Jul 1889 Event Type: Marriage Marriage Place: Salem, New Hampshire Birth Date: abt 1844 Age: 45 Gender: Male Father's Name: William Hinman Spouse Name: Emma E Millen Spouse Age: 22 Spouse Gender: Female Spouse Father's Name: Francis Millen FHL Film Number: 1001266

1900 North Andover, Essex, MA
Edward is now married to second wife Emma and also in HH is their son Everett age 10

1910-1920 North Andover, Ma
Edward, Emma
son Everett [in 1910 only]

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U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 Record for Edward P Hinman
adm 22 Dec 1913; discharged 117 Feb 1914
occ: shoemaker; wife Emma E. Hinman of North Andover, MA
Military History: G 11 Mass Inf; discharged 10 Sept 1861 Bladensburg, MD; cause of discharge: constitutional want of muscular and nervous power; disabilities when adm to Home: Mitral Insufficiency; Left Varicocele; History of Rheumatism and chronic diarrhea
Edward P Hinman Birth Year: abt 1844 Keyed Birth Location: Waterford Me Birth State: ME Birth City: Waterford Admitted Year: 1913 Age at Admission: 69 State: Maine County: Kennebec City: Togus Branch: Eastern Branch

DOD per US Applications for Headstones For Military Veterans 1925-1941
[requested by wife Emma in Feb 1939 and shipped in May of 1939 to Lawrence, MA]

Edward married Jane Damon, daughter of Ingalls Damon and Hannah Holt, on 6 Dec 1863 in North Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The marriage ended in divorce on 21 May 1872. (Jane Damon was born on 29 Jan 1831 in Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, died on 28 Sep 1910 and was buried in Harmony Vale Cemetery in North Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.)

Edward next married Emma E. Miller, daughter of Francis Miller and Celia, on 3 Jul 1889 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. (Emma E. Miller was born in 1867 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.)

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