My Genealogy Hound

Prof. John H. Hinemon, superintendent of the Union City Public Schools, is a Fayette County Tennessean, born November 1, 1862, son of D. G. and Mary A. (Stockinger) Hinemon, and is of English descent. His father was born in Middle Tennessee and died in Memphis in 1865. His mother was born in Fayette County in 1840, and now resides in Union City. Our subject is the younger of their two children, and in 1868 removed with his mother to Panola County, Miss., and first attended school at Batesville, of that State. In 1874 they came to Union City, and for five years John H. attended private schools. He then entered what was then known as Union City College, and afterward attended Bingham’s School at Bingham, N. C. In 1882 he was chosen a teacher in the grammar department of the Union City schools, and in 1885 was elected superintendent, and re-elected in 1886. Too much praise cannot be said of him as an educator, and to him chiefly may be attributed the great success of the schools, owing to his energy and perfect system, and the ability of the teachers under him, who have executed in perfect harmony the system inaugurated by him. He was married in 1885 to Eugenia Reynolds, who was born in 1864, daughter of George and Martha Reynolds. Prof. and Mrs. Hinemon have one child—Annelie. The Professor is a Democrat, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his wife belongs to the Christian Church.