Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....A.J. Hinton  1841 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Page 511

A. J. Hinton


A.J. Hinton, one of the well-known and esteemed citizens of Meriwether county, 
of which he is a native, was born in August, 1841. His grandfather, John 
Hinton, a soldier of the revolution, shortly after that war came with his 
wife, Huldah, from North Carolina, their native state, to Georgia. Here in 
Wilkes county, where they had settled, their son Jesse was born in 1802, and 
spent his early years, marrying Miss Clara Wells, a daughter of William and 
Sallie Wells, natives of the same county. Mr. Hinton was an industrious and 
energetic man, and a prosperous farmer, and his son A.J. has inherited those 
valuable qualities. His early years were passed upon the farm, his first steps 
in the pathway to knowledge being made by the way of the old log school house 
of his district, after which he attended Griffin college. Before he had 
attained his majority the war broke out, and in 1862 he enlisted in Company K, 
Fifty-fifth Georgia regiment, under Capt. Milton P. Tucker. During the time 
that he was connected with this regiment he was not in any battle, but, his 
term of enlistment having expired, he returned home, and then re-enlisted, 
going out as captain of Company B, Ninth Georgia regiment. In this company he 
was in many battles, among them Atlanta and the fall of Savannah. Capt. Hinton 
shared in the poverty of his men, and the southern forces in general, and 
returned penniless from the war, and for several years engaged in farming. In 
1873 he was elected clerk of the court, and, therefore, moved to Greeneville; 
he served two terms as clerk, and in 1877 was elected ordinary, to which 
office he has been re-elected every term since, which fact has well attested 
his faithfulness and efficiency in the duties of his office. Capt. Hinton 
married in 1859 to Miss Sudie Findley, the daughter of Emanuel and Elizabeth 
(McLaughlin) Findley, the former a native of Jasper county, who came to this 
county in 1833. Mrs. Hinton was born in this county in 1843 and died in 1875, 
leaving to her husband two children, Laurena and Jesse L. In 1887 he married 
Miss Palma Walker, born in Upson county in 1855. Her parents Hudson and 
Frances (Dardin) Walker, some years ago moved from Georgia to Texas, and later 
Mr. Walker returning to make a visit to his daughter, was taken with the 
yellow fever in New Orleans and died. Mr. and Mrs. Hinton are faithful and 
consistent Christians, the former a member of the Missionary Baptist church, 
the latter belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Hinton is also an 
honored member of the masonic order.




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