Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas: Containing Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families - 1889; Page: 38 

HINTON H. ATKINSON was born in Johnston county, North Carolina, July 12, 1831, 
and his father, Carey, was born in the same county in 1791. The father was a 
farmer, served in the War of 1812, and died in his native county in 1844. His 
wife, Willey O'Neal, was born in Johnston county, North Carolina, in 1799 and 
died in 1864. She bore her husband eight children, of whom the subject of this 
sketch is the fifth. 
  H. H. Atkinson was reared and educated in Johnston county, North Carolina, and 
lived there until 1857, when he moved to White county, Arkansas, in 1869 to 
Freestone county, Texas, in 1872 located at Kentucky Town, in Grayson county, 
Texas, and in 1885 moved to Ida in the same county, where he now resides and has 
105 acres of land. In North Carolina Mr. Atkinson was in the turpentine distilling
business but has since followed farming. In 1862 he joined the Confederate army 
as second lieutenant and served until the close of the war-all the time west of 
the Mississippi river.
  March 9, 1852, Mr. Atkinson was married to Miss Caroline Bailey, a daughter of 
Hudson and Piety Bailey, of North Corolina. To this union have been born eleven 
children-Joseph H., Alonzo D., Edgar H., Savannah, Dora, Clara, Evaline, William, 
Charley, Eldorado and Etta. Mr. Atkinson is a Free Mason and a member of the 
Christian church.