PRIVATE Company I 16th Louisiana Infantry
PRIVATE 2nd Louisiana Cavalry
Confederate States Army

Son of John Woodard Hinton, Sr (I)
Birth 1822
Death 1844 in Gibsland, Bienville Parish, Louisiana,

Mother - Mary Angelina Pitman
Birth 1820 in Randolph, Georgia, Died 1885 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana

INFO:
John Woodard Hinton Jr. / Sr was raised in the home of William Wimberly as his father died the same year he was born.
In May 1861 John W. Hinton enlisted in the Confederate Army at Camp Moore in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. He was in Company I, 16th Louisiana Infantry under the command of Alfred Sidney Johnston. John was wounded in the right forearm while taking aim in the battle of Shiloh. His commanding officer, Alfred Sidney Johnston, was wounded and bled to death at Shiloh.
John was honorably discharged from the 16th Louisiana Infantry in 1863 and joined Captain A.O.P. Pickens Company of the 2nd Louisiana Cavalry. He was captured at Natchitoches, Louisiana on March 21, 1864, then exchanged in a prisoner exchange on the Red River Landing on July 22, 1864.
After his discharge, when the war was over, he came back to Bienville Parish and on July 30, 1865 he married Angelina Jane "Jennie" Knighton.

[Information taken from "The History of Bienville Parish Vol I & II"]

John was the loving father of the following children:

Mary Josephine Hinton Jolley - #100593953
1867 – 1951 Epps Cemetery, Epps, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana
(Married Jefferson Americus Jolley)

John Woodard Hinton Jr - # 39386311
1869 – 1951 Springhill Cemetery, Ringgold, Beinville Parish, Louisiana
(Married Annie Mae Beckham)

Frances Elizabeth Hinton Jolly - #52343122
1870 – 1959 Springhill Cemetery, Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
(Married Robert Gibson Jolley)

Hugh Thomas Hinton - # 22100437
1871 – 1959 Pine Ridge Cemetery, Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas
(Married Mary Elizabeth Rogers)

Andrew Frank Hinton - #70690107
1873 – 1939 Wimberly Cemetery, Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
(Married Carrie Lee Davis)

Virginia T Hinton Beckham - #70393381
1874 – 1956 Wimberly Cemetery, Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
(Married William B Beckham)

Sarah Alice Hinton Lee - #63556484
1876 – 1961 Springhill Cemetery, Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
(Married Joel Abraham Lee - brother of brother William's wife Eva Lee)

William Jesse Hinton - #22100527
1877- 1923 Pine Ridge Cemetery, Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas
(Married Martha Eva Lee)

Rhoda Mae Hinton Prothro - #75232859
1881 - 1931 Mt Lebanon Cemetery, Mt Lebanon, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
(Married Edward Lawson Prothro)

Ruth L. Hinton - Yeats - #59777911
1879 – 1949 Friendship Cemetery, Roganville, Jasper County, Texas
(Married Jesse Marvin Yeats)

Blanche L Hinton King Wiggins - #41083887
1883 – 1939 Springhill Cemetery, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
(Married Edward L King & Robert Anderson Wiggins)

Annie Lucy Hinton Harvey - #110833654
1885 - 1973 Rocky Mount Cemetery, Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana
(Married James Benjamin Harvey)