John and Lucy Hinkle Homestead

John and Lucy Hinkle Homestead. . , The Hinkle cabin was built in 1873 by John Weaver and Lucy Kenner Hinkle, who homesteaded the surrounding 154 acres. They married in 1859 in Blount County, Alabama, where seven children were born: William, Louisa Ann (“Eliza”), Mary Jane, Frances Lavina, Simeon, Nioma, and Isaac. The eighth child, Daniel, was born in the cabin in 1876. When Lucy died in 1911, John married Ida Bonds and had another son, George. The 14 × 16 ft. cabin, constructed of hand-hewn white oak logs, survived a 1930 tornado and an EF-4 tornado in 2008. The last child was born in the cabin in 1932. The last resident, Roy Hinesley, lived here until his death in 1991., John and Lucy Hinkle’s neighbors, Ephraim O. and Basha Rushing, moved to this community around 1872. John had served the Confederacy in the Civil War and Ephraim, from southern Illinois, had served with the Union Army. In Arkansas the families became friends, and a Hinkle daughter, Nioma, married a Rushing son, Phillip Malanthy. Ephraim O. Rushing, who served as justice of the peace, successfully applied for a post office, which was given the name Rushing. It existed from 1882 to 1971. In 1885, Ephraim Rushing, John Hinkle, and Thomas Ross, acting as trustees for their community, began the Rushing Cemetery, which is located one mile north of this location. ,