Compiled and written by David R. Schleper, 2023

Alice Hinds was born June 2, 1854, in Salem, New York. Her parents were Henry Hinds (1826-1903) and Mary Fassett Woodworth Hinds (1825-1906). According to Progressive Men of Minnesota by Marion Daniel Shutter in 1853, and in The Minneapolis Journal in 1897, “The ancestors of the subject of this sketch, on both the paternal and maternal sides, were of good old Colonial stock, having come to this country about the year 1650.”

“Several members of the family were soldiers in the War of the Revolution. Henry Hinds…was an early pioneer in the state of Minnesota, coming here in 1854 and settling at Shakopee, where he has ever since resided and practiced law.”

Alice’s grandparents were Charles Hinds (1787-1859) and Jane Agnes Oua Hinds (1793-1881); and Ira Woodworth (1793-1881) and Wealthy Ann Gilbert Woodworth (1797-1846). Great-grandparents were John Bradford Hinds (1753-1799) and Susanna Tenney Hinds (1750-1860); Robert Oua (1747-1830) and Margaret Peggy Armstrong Oua (1752-1814); Major Lott Woodworth (1766-1840) and Asenath Elizabeth Heath Woodworth (1768-1850); and Joseph Gilbert (1777-1829) and Charlotte Day Gilbert (1779-1852).

According to Alice, her father “was born at Hebron, New York, in 1826; graduated from the Albany Normal College in 1850; took up the study of law in the Cincinnati Law School and graduated from that institution in 1852.”

Henry married Mary Fassett Woodworth in 1853. Alice was the first of seventh children, born June 2, 1854.

In 1854, the family moved to Shakopee, Minnesota Territory. The next six children were born in Shakopee: Mary Hinds Lord (1856-1923); Henry, Jr. (1858-1883); George (1860-1888); William (1862-1932); Dolly (1863–1863); and Charles Gilbert (1866-1920).

Henry opened a law office at Shakopee. “He held many offices of public trust. He was one of the leading lawyers of the Eighth Judicial District up to the time of his retiring from active practice in 1884. In the early day he acted as the county attorney of Scott County and judge of probate. He was a member of the lower house of the legislature from Scott County in 1878 and was made a member of the board of managers in the impeachment of Judge Page, making the closing argument for the board before the senate. In 1879 and 1881 he served in the state senate,” according to Progressive Men of Minnesota.

Alice married John W. Sencerbox, who was born Sept. 1, 1849, in New York, and died Oct. 27, 1922. They married in Shakopee on April 2, 1874.

In 1879, Alice and John had a daughter, Katherine Katie. But a year later, in January 1880, Katie became sick with brain fever and died at age one.

Alice Hinds Sencerbox died July 17, 1900, in Spring Lake, Scott, Minnesota. According to the Minnesota U.S. Obituary Index, 1891-2003, it noted:

Alice Hinds Senserbox. (spelled wrong)

On the website, Minnesota, U.S., Obituary Index, 1891-2003, it noted:

Valley Cemetery
Shakopee, Scott County, Minnesota, USA
GPS-Latitude: 44.7970428, Longitude: -93.4972229
PLOT Front left of cemetery.
MEMORIAL ID 82315096

Spouse: Henry Hinds (Actually, this is the name of her father, not her husband. Her husband was John W. Sencerbox.)
Married: Sept. 1, 1853, Salem, New York (This is the marriage of Alice’s father and mother.).
Father: Ira Woodworth
Mother: Wealthy Ann Gilbert. (Again, the memorial is wrong. Ira Woodworth and Wealthy Ann Gilbert are not Alice’s parents, but her mother, Mary Fassett Woodworth’s parents, Ira Woodworth (1793-1861) and Wealthy Ann Gilbert Woodworth (1797-1846).

Alice was buried at Valley Cemetery, according to Find a Grave.

John died Oct.27, 1922, in Minneapolis. He was buried in Valley Cemetery in Shakopee.