Harrison County KyArchives Biographies.....Hinton, G.W. August 29, 1829 - unknown
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Author: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin,

G. W. HINTON, farmer, P. O. Hinton, was born in Scott County, Aug. 29, 1829; 
his grandfather, Wm. Hinton, came from Culpepper [sic] Court House, Va., in 
1794, and settled at Turkey Foot, in Scott County, taking up one thousand acres 
of land; his family and effects were transported from Virginia in wagons; he 
was one of the first settlers of Turkey Foot, which takes its name from the 
fact that three streams unite at that point, forming a figure which bears some 
resemblance to the shape of the foot of that remarkable Western bird. During 
those early days they were much troubled with Indians and wild beasts, and had 
to keep their sheep and cattle in pens to protect them from the ravages of 
wolves and panthers. The father of our subject was born in Virginia in 1784, 
and was ten years old when the family moved to Kentucky. G. W. Hinton lived 
with his father till [sic] twenty-two years of age, when he removed to Harrison 
County and run a sawmill, in partnership with his brother-in-law, T. F. Butler; 
Sept. 6, 1857, he married Millie, daughter of Capt. John and Catharine (Lemon)
Rennaker, of Harrison County; he is the father of three children, namely:
Jno. T., born Oct. 6, 1858, married to Miss Jeffers, of Grant County; Mary
E., born Feb. 7, 1860, married to J. T. Stone, of Scott County; and Wm. A.,
born Feb. 2, 1872; was elected Magistrate of Rutland precinct in 1865 and
served four years; was re-elected in 1869, receiving at this time the
largest vote that has ever been given to any man in Rutland Precinct. Mr.
Hinton has devoted his life to farming and trading; he is the owner of 375
acres of land lying in Harrison and Scott Counties, and is a prudent and
successful business man; himself and wife are members of the Christian
Church at Mt. Olivet, in Scott County, where he has been an Elder since the
organization of the church, in 1868; he votes with the Democratic party. 


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