Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of SAMUEL WINDFIELD HINKLE. This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 163-165 SAMUEL WINDFIELD HINKLE. The first settlement made in this county by the Hinkles was near Frankford. They were from Germany. Samuel Hinkle, the grandfather of S. W. Hinkle, president of the county court, was first to come. He married Mary M. Knight and by her had three children: Andrew A., James K., and Maggie, who married 'Squire John C. Patterson, now living near Frankford. at the age of eighty-two years. He was a member of the county court for eighteen years. They have one child, Mrs. Rose Shirkey. Samuel Hinkle's son, James Hinkle, born February 3, 1832, near Frankford, died at his home at Unus, April 18, 1883, aged fifty-one years. He was reared on a farm, was a member of the Methodist Church South and a citizen of the county of recognized ability and worth. He served as a Confederate soldier four years in General Lee's army, being a member of Lieut. S. W. N. Feamster's command. During that time he had several very narrow escapes. The exposure of the war caused lung trouble, from which he suffered greatly and for several long years before he died. On the thirteenth of October, 1853, James Hinkle married Susan M. Anderson, born November 17, 1834, near Lewisburg. She died, December 7, 1915, aged eighty-one years, in this county. Their children were Mrs. David Rader, of Kansas City, Mo.; S. W., W. E., H. W., J. C., and R. E., farmers and stock raisers of Greenbrier county. Peter C., Andrew A., and Rebecca Greene died several years ago. Miss Susan M. Hinkle was a member of the M. E. Church South. She was a devout Christian and a very useful woman. Samuel Windfield was born December 29, 1856. He owns and cultivates a large farm near Unus, which, by incessant labor, was reclaimed from the wilderness and made a beautiful one years ago. He has been a successful agriculturist. He spent four years in Missouri and other parts of the West farming and cattle buying, and with a common school education to commence with, has become a prominent and well-to-do citizen of the county. He was elected a member of the county court in 1912 and made presiding judge by that elected body in 1914. Mr. Hinkle has been married twice. His first wife was Miss Mattie W. Marshall, of Charlottesville, Va. She lived but a short while. In 1892 he then married Bertha M. Shirkey, of Botetourt county, Virginia. One daughter, Mattie Greene Hinkle, born April 16, 1893, was the fruit of this union. The Shirkey family are of Irish descent. They were Protestants, being Presbyterians. Because of persecution, the ancestors of the Greenbrier family emigrated to America in early times and settled on the Samuel McClung farm near Sunlight, now one of the most productive farms in the county.