Hinton, Mary Hilliard

Member of patriotic and historical organizations and editor, 1901-1926, of the "North Carolina Booklet," a quarterly of historical articles; resident of Raleigh, N.C.

From the description of Mary Hilliard Hinton papers, 1883-1929 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24990410

Mary Hilliard Hinton was the daughter of David and Mary Boddie Carr Hinton and the niece of Elias Carr, governor of North Carolina, 1893-1897.

Hinton attended St. Mary's School in Raleigh. She later published A Type of the Old South, an article describing the southern slave, in the Skyland Magazine and various other articles in the Raleigh News and Observer . She studied heraldic art. From 1901 to 1926, Hinton edited the North Carolina Booklet, a quarterly of historical articles originally begun as a project of the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the Revolution. In this, she was assisted by Mrs. E. E. Moffitt.

Hinton also served on the Jamestown Historical Commission with Mrs. Lindsay Patterson and Rebecca Schenck. She belonged to the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the North Carolina State Literary and Historical Association, the Daughters of the Revolution, the National Society of Colonial Dames, and other organizations.

From the guide to the Mary Hilliard Hinton Papers, 1883-1929, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)