Hugh Hinton
Hugh Hinton was born on 20 January 1810 in Johnston County, North Carolina. His memorial gives his parents as Jesse and Sarah Hinton.
About 1830 he married Effie Minerva McLeod, a North Carolina woman, in Mississippi. About 1842 they settled in the Woodville area of north Louisiana, southwest of where Ruston now stands. Effie died in 1844, aged about 29, and he buried her at home. On 25 January 1848 he married Winiford Huey, called Winnie, the daughter of a Ouachita Parish family. Their sons James Huey and Benjamin Franklin were born in 1846 and 1847, before that date. In September 1850 the census found Hugh, 40, farming land worth 1,400 dollars, with Winney, 30, and ten children, the youngest a month old.
The family burial at home made him think about a proper place. His stone says it in his own family's words: "Realizing the need for a cemetery and church Hugh and Winnie gave this land in 1850." That land became Wesley Chapel, the church and cemetery where many of his children and grandchildren were buried.
The back of his stone lists sixteen children with their birth dates: Mary, 1836; Minerva, 1839; Budd, 1841; Roderick Tobe, 1843; Alexander, 1844; James Huey, 1846; Benjamin Franklin, 26 July 1847; Robert J., 1848; Sarah E., 1850; Jessee J., 1851; Priscilla, 1854; Winney, 1855; Laura Gray, 1857; Virgil Irene, 1860; Maude, 1862; and Hugh Jr., 1864. Minerva married John Franklin Lyles. Benjamin Franklin married Sarah Elizabeth Wright and stayed in the Wesley Chapel community all his life.
Hugh died on 18 January 1882, two days short of 72, and was buried at Wesley Chapel. His granite stone carries his name in the center, with Effie McLeod on one side and Winiford Huey on the other.
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Cite: Heirology, "Hugh Hinton (1810-1882)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/hugh-hinton-1810-1882-77241d.