LENOIR COUNTY, NC - Obit. - Waitman Thompson Hines, 1932 ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Martha Mewborn Marble May 1999 ========================================================================= WAITMAN THOMPSON HINES - 1932 Copy at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical File # [no number] We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. The Mission Herald - February 1932 IN MEMORIAM - WAITMAN THOMPSON HINES On December, 1931, shortly after his sixty-ninth birthday, Mr. Waitman T. Hines, faithful and devout communicant of the Church, loyal and devote member of St. Mary's Church, Kinston, NC, passed into "Life Eternal." The passing of Mr. Hines, for many years a vestryman of St. Mary's Parish, and more recently Senior Warden, until forced by ill health to resign, brings a great loss to the Church and community of Kinston; and removed from the ranks of the Diocese of East Carolina a godly layman, whose life was the source of constant inspiration to all his associates and friends. The late Mr. Hines was a native of Lenoir County. Before beginning his business career he was a student at Wake Forest College. In 1892 he, with his brother the late Mr. Lovitt Hines went into the lumber business, in which they achieved marked success. In 1896, their business was moved to Kinston. Since that time, Mr. Hines and his family have resided in Kinston and have been very closely identified with the life and work of St. Mary's Church, and with the Diocese of East Carolina. In 1887 Mr. Hines was married to Miss Leone Hardy. In addition to his widow, Mr. Hines is survived by three daughters, Mrs. A. H. Parrott, Mrs. D. L. Dixon, and Mrs. J. L. Skinner; and by one son, Mr. W. R. Hines. For a period of several months prior to his death, Mr. Hines, had been in failing health. Two days before last Christmas, the end came very quietly due to heart failure. Mr. Hines, in his sleep had passed into the ranks of the Church Triumphant. In death, as in life, with simple unwavering faith, Mr. Hines had followed where His Master had led the way. By his uprightness, his sincerety (sic), his kindness to others, and his generosity, in truth, by his genuine Christian life and conduct, and his steadfast and humble Christian faith, the late Waitman Thompson Hines has bequeathed to his family, relatives, and hosts of friends and comrades a blessed Memory and an inspiring example, which deserves to be cherished and followed by succeeding generations. Through the death of Mr. W. T. Hines, the State of North Carolina has lost an honored and noble citizen; and the church, a loyal and devoted son. "Blessed are the Dead, who died in the Lord." B. F. Huske