Ida Mae Gix was the 1st child, and only daughter, born to Otto and Louisa (Diebel) Gix, on June 8, 1879, in New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. Around 1884, the family left Canada and moved to Harbor Springs, (Emmet County) Michigan. About four years later they moved to Petoskey, (Emmet County) Michigan.
Ida attended the local schools in Petoskey; however, she left school at one point to help raise Ralph Christman, her 10-month-old cousin, when his mother died. Ida received a certificate of promotion from grammar school in June 1894. Later she attended the University of Michigan and studied music and piano. After finishing her studies, she returned to Petoskey and lived with her parents on Howard Street, and taught piano. However, she realized that perhaps teaching wasn't her "cup of tea". She worried too much when her students didn't progress enough to her expectations. She eventually quit teaching and went to work in the family business of tailoring.
While at the University of Michigan, Ida met and fell in love with someone her parents did not approve of. His name is not known, however, his nickname was "Shorty," named because he was so tall. He was moving to California and wanted Ida to marry him. However, she obeyed her parent's wishes and did not marry him. On the train trip west, he contracted typhoid fever and died before reaching California. Possibly, had Ida married him and gone to California, she too may have contracted typhoid.
Ida's parents wintered every year in St Augustine, Florida and Ida would travel with them. When her father died, Ida and her mother continued to travel to Florida and eventually began to stay in the Orlando area. One year Ida met Augustus Daniel Hinkle, originally from Orangeburg, S.C. who had a hot dog stand. Ida fell in love with him but her mother didn't approve of their relationship. Louisa always referred to him as Hinkle. However, just before her 44th birthday, Ida and A.D. were married on May 9, 1923, in Detroit, (Wayne County) Michigan. They moved into a small house on the Ward farm on Square Lake Rd where Ralph and Marie Gix lived, and Ralph worked the farm and apple orchard. They lived there until about 1930.
Ida and A.D. eventually made their home in Petoskey at the family home on Howard Street and operated a laundry and dry cleaning business. They continued to travel to Florida each year and would stop in Pontiac and spend several weeks with Ralph and Marie Gix. Ida was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Petoskey and was a past Worthy Matron in the Eastern Star.
Ida was a kind and gentle person. Though Ida and A.D. never had any children, she enjoyed being around Marie Gix's grandchildren. She enjoyed traveling to Florida, which she continued to do after the death of her husband in 1951. Ida died on December 2, 1959, in Pontiac, Michigan, at the home of Marie Gix. She was 80 years old and the cause of death was recorded as coronary thrombosis due to arteriosclerotic heart disease. Ida is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Block 55 Lot 12, in Petoskey, Michigan, next to her husband, A.D. Hinkle.
Ida attended the local schools in Petoskey; however, she left school at one point to help raise Ralph Christman, her 10-month-old cousin, when his mother died. Ida received a certificate of promotion from grammar school in June 1894. Later she attended the University of Michigan and studied music and piano. After finishing her studies, she returned to Petoskey and lived with her parents on Howard Street, and taught piano. However, she realized that perhaps teaching wasn't her "cup of tea". She worried too much when her students didn't progress enough to her expectations. She eventually quit teaching and went to work in the family business of tailoring.
While at the University of Michigan, Ida met and fell in love with someone her parents did not approve of. His name is not known, however, his nickname was "Shorty," named because he was so tall. He was moving to California and wanted Ida to marry him. However, she obeyed her parent's wishes and did not marry him. On the train trip west, he contracted typhoid fever and died before reaching California. Possibly, had Ida married him and gone to California, she too may have contracted typhoid.
Ida's parents wintered every year in St Augustine, Florida and Ida would travel with them. When her father died, Ida and her mother continued to travel to Florida and eventually began to stay in the Orlando area. One year Ida met Augustus Daniel Hinkle, originally from Orangeburg, S.C. who had a hot dog stand. Ida fell in love with him but her mother didn't approve of their relationship. Louisa always referred to him as Hinkle. However, just before her 44th birthday, Ida and A.D. were married on May 9, 1923, in Detroit, (Wayne County) Michigan. They moved into a small house on the Ward farm on Square Lake Rd where Ralph and Marie Gix lived, and Ralph worked the farm and apple orchard. They lived there until about 1930.
Ida and A.D. eventually made their home in Petoskey at the family home on Howard Street and operated a laundry and dry cleaning business. They continued to travel to Florida each year and would stop in Pontiac and spend several weeks with Ralph and Marie Gix. Ida was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Petoskey and was a past Worthy Matron in the Eastern Star.
Ida was a kind and gentle person. Though Ida and A.D. never had any children, she enjoyed being around Marie Gix's grandchildren. She enjoyed traveling to Florida, which she continued to do after the death of her husband in 1951. Ida died on December 2, 1959, in Pontiac, Michigan, at the home of Marie Gix. She was 80 years old and the cause of death was recorded as coronary thrombosis due to arteriosclerotic heart disease. Ida is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Block 55 Lot 12, in Petoskey, Michigan, next to her husband, A.D. Hinkle.
Ida Mae Gix was the 1st child, and only daughter, born to Otto and Louisa (Diebel) Gix, on June 8, 1879, in New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada. Around 1884, the family left Canada and moved to Harbor Springs, (Emmet County) Michigan. About four years later they moved to Petoskey, (Emmet County) Michigan.
Ida attended the local schools in Petoskey; however, she left school at one point to help raise Ralph Christman, her 10-month-old cousin, when his mother died. Ida received a certificate of promotion from grammar school in June 1894. Later she attended the University of Michigan and studied music and piano. After finishing her studies, she returned to Petoskey and lived with her parents on Howard Street, and taught piano. However, she realized that perhaps teaching wasn't her "cup of tea". She worried too much when her students didn't progress enough to her expectations. She eventually quit teaching and went to work in the family business of tailoring.
While at the University of Michigan, Ida met and fell in love with someone her parents did not approve of. His name is not known, however, his nickname was "Shorty," named because he was so tall. He was moving to California and wanted Ida to marry him. However, she obeyed her parent's wishes and did not marry him. On the train trip west, he contracted typhoid fever and died before reaching California. Possibly, had Ida married him and gone to California, she too may have contracted typhoid.
Ida's parents wintered every year in St Augustine, Florida and Ida would travel with them. When her father died, Ida and her mother continued to travel to Florida and eventually began to stay in the Orlando area. One year Ida met Augustus Daniel Hinkle, originally from Orangeburg, S.C. who had a hot dog stand. Ida fell in love with him but her mother didn't approve of their relationship. Louisa always referred to him as Hinkle. However, just before her 44th birthday, Ida and A.D. were married on May 9, 1923, in Detroit, (Wayne County) Michigan. They moved into a small house on the Ward farm on Square Lake Rd where Ralph and Marie Gix lived, and Ralph worked the farm and apple orchard. They lived there until about 1930.
Ida and A.D. eventually made their home in Petoskey at the family home on Howard Street and operated a laundry and dry cleaning business. They continued to travel to Florida each year and would stop in Pontiac and spend several weeks with Ralph and Marie Gix. Ida was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Petoskey and was a past Worthy Matron in the Eastern Star.
Ida was a kind and gentle person. Though Ida and A.D. never had any children, she enjoyed being around Marie Gix's grandchildren. She enjoyed traveling to Florida, which she continued to do after the death of her husband in 1951. Ida died on December 2, 1959, in Pontiac, Michigan, at the home of Marie Gix. She was 80 years old and the cause of death was recorded as coronary thrombosis due to arteriosclerotic heart disease. Ida is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Block 55 Lot 12, in Petoskey, Michigan, next to her husband, A.D. Hinkle.
Ida attended the local schools in Petoskey; however, she left school at one point to help raise Ralph Christman, her 10-month-old cousin, when his mother died. Ida received a certificate of promotion from grammar school in June 1894. Later she attended the University of Michigan and studied music and piano. After finishing her studies, she returned to Petoskey and lived with her parents on Howard Street, and taught piano. However, she realized that perhaps teaching wasn't her "cup of tea". She worried too much when her students didn't progress enough to her expectations. She eventually quit teaching and went to work in the family business of tailoring.
While at the University of Michigan, Ida met and fell in love with someone her parents did not approve of. His name is not known, however, his nickname was "Shorty," named because he was so tall. He was moving to California and wanted Ida to marry him. However, she obeyed her parent's wishes and did not marry him. On the train trip west, he contracted typhoid fever and died before reaching California. Possibly, had Ida married him and gone to California, she too may have contracted typhoid.
Ida's parents wintered every year in St Augustine, Florida and Ida would travel with them. When her father died, Ida and her mother continued to travel to Florida and eventually began to stay in the Orlando area. One year Ida met Augustus Daniel Hinkle, originally from Orangeburg, S.C. who had a hot dog stand. Ida fell in love with him but her mother didn't approve of their relationship. Louisa always referred to him as Hinkle. However, just before her 44th birthday, Ida and A.D. were married on May 9, 1923, in Detroit, (Wayne County) Michigan. They moved into a small house on the Ward farm on Square Lake Rd where Ralph and Marie Gix lived, and Ralph worked the farm and apple orchard. They lived there until about 1930.
Ida and A.D. eventually made their home in Petoskey at the family home on Howard Street and operated a laundry and dry cleaning business. They continued to travel to Florida each year and would stop in Pontiac and spend several weeks with Ralph and Marie Gix. Ida was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Petoskey and was a past Worthy Matron in the Eastern Star.
Ida was a kind and gentle person. Though Ida and A.D. never had any children, she enjoyed being around Marie Gix's grandchildren. She enjoyed traveling to Florida, which she continued to do after the death of her husband in 1951. Ida died on December 2, 1959, in Pontiac, Michigan, at the home of Marie Gix. She was 80 years old and the cause of death was recorded as coronary thrombosis due to arteriosclerotic heart disease. Ida is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Block 55 Lot 12, in Petoskey, Michigan, next to her husband, A.D. Hinkle.
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