Hinton, Mary Hilliard [1]
Hinton, Mary Hilliard
By Charles Hinton Silver, 1988
7 June 1869–6 Jan. 1961
[2]Mary Hilliard Hinton, author, artist, genealogist, and historian, was born at Midway Plantation, Wake County [3], eight miles east of Raleigh [4]. Her father was Major David Hinton, alumnus of The University of North Carolina [5] and a leading citizen; he was the son of Charles Lewis Hinton, also a graduate of the university and longtime state treasurer. Her mother was Mary Boddie Carr, of Edgecombe County [6], a member of two distinguished families and a sister of Governor Elias Carr [7].
Mary Hilliard Hinton was educated at St. Mary's Episcopal School [8]and Peace Institute [9](now College), Raleigh [4]. Later she studied and practiced portraiture under Mrs. Ruth Huntington Moore of the Peace Institute faculty. Miss Hinton was a heraldic artist of great ability, holding for several years the office of heraldic artist for the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the Revolution [10]. For many years she served as editor of the society's North Carolina Booklet [11] .
Membership in numerous patriotic and allied organizations reflected the wide variety of Miss Hinton's talents and interests. She was a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy [12], Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities [13], North Carolina Literary and Historical Association [14], Daughters of the Revolution (registrar and state regent for many years), National Council of the Colonial Dames [15], Order of the Crown of America, Audubon Society [16], Colonial Dames of America [17], National Geographic Society [18], Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede [19](charter member no. 5), and Raleigh Woman's Club [20] (chairman of the art department).
Miss Hinton was an active member of Christ Episcopal Church, Raleigh [21]; a leading worker in the Anti-Suffrage League; and a world traveler. She died at her ancestral home, Midway Plantation, and was buried in the Hinton graveyard at The Oaks plantation near Raleigh.
References:
Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina , vol. 3 (1906)
Margaret Collier, Biography of Representative Women of the South, 1861–1929 , vol. 2 (1923)
Family records in the author's possession Woman's Who's Who of America (1914–15)
Additional Resources:
Mary Hilliard Hinton Papers, 1883-1929 (collection no. 03625). The Southern Historical Collection. Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hinton,Mary_Hilliard.html [22]
Image Credits:
"Mary Hilliard Hinton." Sky-Land 1, no. 10 (September 1914). 629. https://archive.org/stream/skyland1913smit#page/628/mode/2up [2] (accessed March 22, 2013).
1 January 1988 | Silver, Charles Hinton