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- BIOGRAPHY: Interview with Amy Schroder, Alberta Schwatken, and Wilber Schwatken, Jr.
Aunt Alberta: "I think he was the most wonderful person in the world."
Aunt Amy: "Paul could have sold anything to anybody, and I can't give anything away."
Cousin Wilbur: "He would take you with you even knowing you got took, and then you'd be happy you got took."
Indeed, Grandpa Paul was a dealer and a successful farmer.
He was sharp, and he wanted to go to school before he could. He ran away as a very small boy to the school across the fields. The teacher sent him home with a note that he had to be six before he could start school. He was very good in schoo l and could memorize long poems with no trouble.
As a teenager, he would sneak out of the house on Saturdays to ride a horse to Altamont and box. His mother only learned of it when he came home with a black eye.
Paul enjoyed trapping. He once trapped a skunk under the school building and took it home. He then returned to school, but his teacher sent him home with a note not to return until he stopped stinking like a skunk.
He had a horse that was so old and run down, that he decided to sell it. He built it up enough to the prospective buyer that he most bought back himself.
He was a generous man. He often would bring food to those in town who were having hard times.
Grandpa Paul died of a heart attack. Agnes had upset him and she left him after he fell on the ground. She stopped at Cheryl's house and said, "You might want to go to go check on Paul. He's either dead or passed out". Aunt Alberta just happ ened to be there, so she called an ambulence and raced to his house and found him on the ground, drenched in sweat. He refused to get on the ambulence and said he needed to get back to the fields. Ben, David, Amy, Hazel, and she brought him t o the hospital. He stayed there two weeks and then was two weeks in St. John's Hospital in Joplin, MO. Steve and Mom (Evelyn) flew in to see their Dad on that Sunday, and he died on Monday. He had enought money in his wallet to pay for fune ral, just short $2. His funeral costed over $5000. The funeral was packed. Paul had friends everywhere, and he never met a stranger.
Source: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/5501745/person/-1443170951 - 9 Aug 2013
DEATH: U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current
Name: Paul W. Hinkle
Last Residence: 67330 Altamont, Labette, Kansas, USA
Born: 4 Oct 1922
Died: 24 May 1994
State (Year) SSN issued: Kansas (Before 1951)
Source: Ancestry.com - 9 Aug 2013.
BURIAL: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Altamont, Labette County, Kansas, USA
"Paul W Hinkle Sr: Born - 4 Oct 1922: Died - 24 May 1994."
Source: Margaret@findagrave - 9 Aug 2013
Memorial# 89747311
CENSUS: 1930 US Federal Census - Kansas, Labette, Labette, ED 9, Page 1B. *[3 Apr 1930]*
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Living with parents
Paul Hinkle (son) age 7 born Kansas.
CENSUS: 1940 US Federal Census - Kansas, Labette, Fairview, ED 50-5, Page 2B. *[10 Apr 1940]*
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Living with parents
Paul Hinkle (son) age 17 born Kansas. Farmer
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1922 - 1994 (71 years)