In searching records of the White River Valley Historical Quarterly Society, a publication with interests in counties in Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, including Stone, Taney, Green and Ozark Counties, I ran across this note:
If you notice in the first paragraph the writer out lines the names listed in the old notebook. Frank Hinkle and Dan Hinkle are included - followed a few names later by Mack Adair.
Pure speculation on my part at this time, but Minnie (Mack's wife) has brothers named Frank & Daniel J. Hinkle. Could that be the same Frank and Dan Hinkle listed and maybe even working with Mack Adair? Is that maybe how Mack and Minnie met or Minnie's brothers helped Mack find work? From records found previously in the "Jungles" Mack seems to be fond of religion and the United Brethren in Christ church is an evangelical Christian denomination with roots in Mennonite and German communities in Pennsylvania. The Hinkles are originally from Pennsylvania and of German ancestry, so it would make sense they were associated with this type of church.
Mack and Minnie were married by the 1880 census and living in that area. It's the right county and right time frame. Again, I may just be desperately looking for a connection, but I'm going to hold on to this just in case.
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