Hinds / Hines Family
Photo Album
Porter Woods Store, about 1912
This old photo, made about 1912 and furnished by Mrs. Wilma Reagan Pinckley, shows a group at the Porter Woods Store in Boatland. Those pictured include Jim Franklin, Tommy Madewell, George Smith, Johnny Hinds, Johnson Wood, Perry Hinds, John Allen Beaty and Porter Woods. // Source: https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bp2000/fentress/boatland.htm
The Hinds / Hines Family of Overton County
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These excerpts from the History of Fentress County, Tennessee, published by the Fentress County Historical Society in 1987, were transcribed by Michael Allen in 2000. See notes at the end.
Porter and Elva Hinds
by Jewelene Rains Hinds
Porter Thomas Hinds a a native of Fentress County, TN, born July 17, 1902 in the Little Crab community. He is the son of Eli Millard Hinds (July 6, 1865-March 7, 1952) and Mary Reynolds Hinds (Feb. 26, 1869Nov. 26, 1954) who were married May 22, 1886. Porter’s brothers and sisters are; Susie Ellen, Dock Jerome, William Cordell, James Emmett, Ida Parsetta Beaty, Pansy Mae Chism, Alta Delavine Ledbetter and others who died as infants. He married Elva Avo Beaty, born March 22, 1903 at Riverton, TN. the daughter of Andrew Johnson Beaty and Malissa Emaline Choate Beaty. Andrew (Jan. 4, 1863-Feb. 3, 1909) and Emaline (Oct. 2, 1874-Aug. 14, 1948) were married Dec. 9, 1891. Their other children were; May Eveline Reagan (by his first wife Mary Jane), Samuel Hollins, McMillian, Mary Euferzine Reagan, Lewis Willard, Nina Allie Conatser, and Carlie Ethel Hinds.
Porter and Elva were married August 31,1924 at Jamestown, Tn. They are the parents of seven sons: Donal Glenn (9/9/1925- 12/22/1925), Porter Clyde (1/1/1927-10/21/1929); Lyman Houston, born October 15, 1928, Tyson Dee born February 23, 1931; Onie Truman born September 12, 1933, Zenith Norman born September 13, 1937 and Nylas Delmo (6/5/1939 – 7/30/1940).
Lyman married Bernice Huff, daughter of Dennis and Ins Huff, and had three children; Kendall Houston married Penny Craigo and have a son Mark, and daughter Sera; Marilyn Sue married Danny Marks and has a son Dustin; Randall Ray married Heidi Reynolds and has sons Joshua and Benjamin. Lyman later married Shirley Doers. They are divorced with no children.
Tyson married Pauline Mullinix, daughter of Jim and Ruby Mullinix. They have four children; Roger Dee married Beth Landes and has a daughter Amanda; Ramona Key married Waymon Morgen and has sons Rickie and Daniel; Nancy Call married Jerry Stone and has a daughter Kristina and son Jason, and Michael now 16 years old.
Truman married Jewelene Rains, daughter of Jim and Lucy York Rains, and they have one daughter Melissa Dawn, age 14.
Zenith married Bulah Cooper, daughter of Cledis and Ruth Cooper, and they have twins Joe and Karen, age 15.
Porter ran Hinds Grocery Store and the first motel in the Pine Haven community known as Greenwood Camp. In 1953 he built and operated the county’s only drive-in theater, the Twi-Light Drive In Theater, near his home. After several years he sold the theater to Charles and Thelma Key. He later ran a grocery store-service station 6rith his son Zenith at the same family location in Pine Haven. He also built and sold houses as a sideline to his other interest.
Elva enjoys piecing quilts, flower and vegetable gardening and going to church at the Pine Haven Nazarene Church.
They have lived at the same location for over 50 years, now in a new house built after the original one burned in 1983.
Source: https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bp2000/fentress/hinds.htm
Truman and Jewelene Hinds
by Jewelene Rains Hinds
Onie Truman Hinds was born at the family home near Jamestown, TN. on September 12, 1933. He is the fifth son of Porter Thomas Hinds, born July 17, 1902 at Little Crab, TN. and Elva Avo Beaty Hinds, born March 22, 1903 at Riverton, TN. They were married at Jamestown on August 31, 1924 and were the parents of seven sons; Lyman married Bernice Huff then Shirley Doers, Tyson married Pauline Mullinix, Truman married Jewelene Rains, Zenith married Bulah Cooper, and three who died in infancy — Clyde, Donal, and Delmo. Truman’s grandparents were: Eli Millard Hinds, born July 6, 1865 at Little Crab, TN. and died March 7, 1952 at Little Crab, and Mary Reynolds, born February 26, 1869 in Virginia and died November 26, 1954 at Little Crab; Andrew Johnson Beaty, born January 4, 1863 at Little Crab, TN. died February 3, 1909 and Malissa Emaline Choate, born October 2, 1874 in Pickett County, TN. and died August 14, 1948 at Helena, TN.
Truman married Martha Jewelene Rains, born December 3, 1934 at the family home in Pall Mall, TN. She is the fifth of twelve children born to James Gordon Rains, born July 19, 1906 at Byrdstown, in Pickett County, TN. and died at Jamestown, TN. on January 21, 1977. He is buried in Wolf River Cemetery at Pall Mall, TN. — and Lucy Erma York Rains, born March 1, 1910 at Pall Mall, TN, the youngest sister of Sgt. Alvin C. York of World War I fame, who were married August 10, 1925 at Jamestown, TN. Jewelene’s brothers and sisters are: Marine, who is not married; Christine, married to Henry Williams; John Jackson “Jack”, married to Joan Whitlow; Arlene, married to H.L. Kelly III; Colene, married to Gene Holt; Lorene, married Wayne Cargile; William, married from Faye Wright; Perry, married to Betty Flowers; and three who died in infancy Jerry, Danny and an unnamed infant. Her grandparents were John Marion Rains, born November 2, 1864 in Pickett County and died June 23, 1946 at Pall Mall, TN. and Martha Adeline Crouch Rains, born March 2, 1873 in Fentress County and died April 20, 1933 at Pall Mall, TN. Both are buried in Davidson Cemetery, Forbus, Tn.; William York, born at Jamestown, TN. on May 15, 1863 and died at Pall Mall, Tn. on November 17, 1911, and Mary Elizabeth Brooks York, born August 8, 1866 in Pall Mall and died May 21, 1943 at the home of her son Sgt. Alvin York in Pall Mall, TN. Both are buried in the Wolf River Cemetery, Pall Mall, TN.
Jewelene attended school in a two room schoolhouse in Pall Mall through the fifth grade before the family moved to Jamestown, TN. Truman and Jewelene both attended York Elementary school and Alvin C. York Institute, where Jewelene graduated on May 27, 1953.
Truman and Jewelene were married December 26, 1952 at 7:00 P.M. in a private ceremony at the United Methodist Church in Jamestown, TN, by Rev. Robert Lewis. They moved to Dayton, Ohio in 1954 where Truman worked for General Motors Corp. They have one daughter Melissa Dawn, born {redacted on this site} at Good Samaritan Hospital, Dayton, Ohio. Melissa attended school at Milton-Union Village School in West Milton, Ohio and York Elementary School in Jamestown, TN. She is now entering her second year of high school at Alvin C. York Institute at Jamestown, TN.
Truman served with the U.S. Army from December 1954 until December 1956, first at Fort Knox, KY. in the Armored Division as a tank driver and commander then as ambulance driver and dispatcher in the Medical Corp at Fort Lewis, Washington. They lived in nearby Olympia, Washington during his military service at Fort Lewis where Truman worked part time for the Olympia Cab Co. as dispatcher and driver. After his discharge from service, Truman returned to his job at Delco Moraine Div. of General Motors Corp. in Dayton, Ohio where he remained until he retired on September 30, 1983, at age 50, with 30 years service. The last seven of these years they Lived in a small farming community north of Dayton known as West Milton, Ohio. After retirement they returned to Jamestown, TN. to live.
Truman’s hobbies are woodworking, hunting and fishing. Jewelene is a member of the Fentress County Historical Society and her hobbies include oil painting, needlework and crafts, and genealogy.
Source: https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bp2000/fentress/truhinds.htm
Transcriber’s note: Most, but not all, [transcribed] excerpts relate to Beaty families. Don’t forget the first rule of genealogy — everything should be backed by primary documentation — This book was written by the Fentress Co. Historical Society. It’s mainly a collection of personal histories told from memory and family tradition with little documentation, and should be taken as such.
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