From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: John W. Hinton of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

I was recently asked if I had information about John W. Hinton and Mary Angelina Pittman. Their son, also John W. and the subject of this obituary, had always interested me as his name came up a few times when researching my great-grandfather, Terrell Bryan. 

In a letter written in 1910, Terrell referred to John as kin when he wrote, "I was glad to hear from Ben M. and John H. and others of our kin." However, John wrote in an affidavit for Terrell's Confederate pension record that he and Terrell were "no blood kin whatever." John was probably correct as the closest relationship appears to be that John's stepfather, William Wimberly, was the father of two of Terrell's sisters-in-law. 

In 1913, John reported on his Confederate pension record that he had lived in Bienville Parish his entire life and that he had four sons and eight daughters. This obituary listed the names and gave the locations of eleven of his twelve children. 

There was no date on this obituary, but it was easily found. According to his pension record, John W. Hinton died on January 29, 1924. His wife, Jennie Knighton Hinton, died the following year.  Both are buried in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 

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Sources 

Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002.

Cook, S.A., "Gibsland," The Bienville Democrat. Arcadia, Louisiana. 30 April 1925, p.3, digital images, Digital Archives of the Bienville Parish Public Library. http://bienville.advantage-preservation.com/GetViewer?url=/viewer/?k=hinton&t=30818&i=t&d=01011850-12312015&m=between&ord=k1&fn=bienville_democrat_usa_louisiana_bienville_19250430_english_3&df=21&dt=30&PubdateId=39704090&file=%2Fviewer%2FGetPdfFile%3F39704090%23zoom%3Dpage-width: accessed 28 Oct 2020. 

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn.

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

"Louisiana Confederate Pensions, 1898-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-VNWR-F?cc=1838535&wc=M61M-TM9%3A165044801 : 20 May 2014), Higgingbotham, Nelson - Hoffham, Isaac L > image 990 of 1445; Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge. Accessed 27 Oct 2020.

Wimberly, Vera. Wimberly Family History: Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana, 1837. Houston, Tex.: D. Armstrong, 1979. Print.