D.W. Hynson, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

D. W. HYNSON is one of the residents of Rapides Parish, La., and he is now
industriously and intelligently engaged in looking after his plantation.
This parish has always been his home, for he was born here in August, 1845,
to Robert C. and Mary (Hunter) Hynson, the former of whom was born in
Maryland, in 1795, and the latter in this parish about 1811.  In the State
of his birth the father grew to manhood and received a good business
education, and for several years thereafter was engaged in a counting house
in Baltimore.  Becoming tired of the East, he determined to seek a home for
himself elsewhere, and in 1817 came to Alexandria, La., where, very soon
after his arrival, he began merchandising, as a member of the firm of
Wright & Hynson, but his partner was killed in 1827, in the famous Sand Bar
duels, in which Mr. Hynson's father-in-law, Dr. Thomas H. Maddox, was also
a principal.  Subsequently Mr. Hynson became cashier and manager in a
branch of the Bank of Louisiana, located at Alexandria, and after severing
his connection with this bank he purchased a valuable plantation, on a
portion of which the subject of this sketch is residing.  Mr. Hynson held
many positions of trust in this parish, and in 1845 was elected a delegate
to the State Constitutional Convention.  In 1875 he made a tour north
visiting relatives, but in October of that year he died very suddenly in
St. Louis, his widow passing from life on March 24, of the following year,
both having been devoted members of the Methodist Church.  In 1863 D. W.
Hynson left school to respond to the call, and for some time was a member
of the Second Louisiana Calvary, after which he was in Squires' Battalion
of Artillery, and served for two years.  In 1869 he first began to follow
the occupation of planting for himself on the place where he now lives.
Miss Dellia Maddox became his wife November 21, 1877, and to them two
children have been born:  Mary Elise and Robert C.  Mr. Hynson belongs to
Oliver Lodge No. 84, of the A. F. & A. M., of Alexandria, and also of the
A. O. U. W. of that place.  His wife is a member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and is a daughter of Dr. Thomas H. and Delia (Miller)
Maddox, the former of whom was  a distinguished physician of this parish,
having received his medical education in a college of Edinburg, Scotland.
He was born in Maryland in 1792, and died in this parish January 18, 1888.