CHAPTER FIVE

Rosa Maxwell, daughter of Robert and Mary Maxwell, left Maury County at age of 16 and enrolled in Cedar Bluff College in Simpson County, Kentucky.  Here she met young Isaac W. Hinton, one of the progressive and influential young farmers of Simpson County.  He was born on December 14, 1852.  He was the 3rd of 5 boys and 1 girl born to Joseph and Mary Valeria Cansasda Billingsby.  His grandfather, John Billingsby was a soldier of that War of 1812.  Isaac Hinton and Rosa Maxwell were married on December 14,, 1875.  They had five children. 

Clarence Hinton went West as a young man.  He married Lillie Seymore.  They had three children.  James Edward,  Evelyn,  and Loraine.

Roy Hinton married Forlenier Herrington.  Their son was Earl Hinton.  Earl's mother died when he was two years old.  She had typhoid fever.  Earl Hinton married Mary Lillian Alexander on July 8, 1928.  Earl Hinton was born May 21, 1911.  Mary Lillian (Alexander) Hinton was born September 12, 1909.  Their children are:
       
          1.  Hollis Hinton born July 23, 1929.  He married Sally Reed. 
          2.  Harold Hinton was born February 25, 1931.  He married Patricia Lansing.
          3.  Kathleen Hinton was born August 24, 1936.  She married Granville Russell.

Earl Hinton's father, Roy Hinton, was born November 13, 1882 - died February 7, 1962.
Clarence Hinton, Roy's brother, was born August 7, 1878. He died February 14, 1942.
     
Mayme Hinton born August 30, 1885 - d.November 13, 1966.  She married Willie Williams.  Their children were:  Virginia who married Earl Mayfield.  Their daughter is Gayle Mayfield.   Howard Williams married Rose Mayfield. 
Their sons are:  Warner,  Alan,  Joe,  Tom,  and Bob Williams.  Mary Sue Williams married Lloyd C. Kemp.  Their children are Amy,  deceased Nancy and Lloyd Kemp.  Billy Williams married  "Chick" Russell.  Their children are Elaine and Mark Williams.

Bessie Hinton born September 4, 1890,  d- December 20, 1966.  She married Sam Copas.  Their children were:  Harry and Rebecca Copas.  Harry's son is Richard Copas.  Rebecca's children and Buddy and Linda Austin.

Judy Hinton was born September 18, 1898.  She married Roy Ellis who was born September 24, 1894, on June 7, 1916.  Roy Ellis died October 11, 1964.  Their children are Jack and Margaret Ellis.  Jack married Dianne Jones.  Margaret married Phillip Holloway. 

Thomas Goldsmith Goodrum and wife Martha (Freeman) Goodrum are buried in a cemetery near McCains Church just off the Pulaski Pike (Highway 31), in Tennessee.  Their gravestone bears the Freeman Coat of Arms.  Some of their descendants own  "Cedar Lawn",  the old Goodrum plantation (1000 acres), west of Emporia, Virginia.

(6)  James G. Goodrum was born in Virginia in 1796.  He married Elizabeth Harmon and settled in Warren County.  Their children were:  John Goodrum,  Eliza J. Goodrum,  Eli Goodrum,  Ben W. Goodrum,  Thomas G. Goodrum,  James Willis Goodrum,  Robert Goodrum,  Martha Goodrum,  Marion Goodrum,  Sarah Goodrum,  Joel R. (Joe) Goodrum,  and possibly one other daughter whose name is not known.

Many of the above named persons are buried on the Sam Duncan Farm near Drake - once the homestead of James G. Goodrum.  (This is in her handwriting.  She wrote- - - This graveyard is all grown up - - -on the Perkins farm.  Have been there often.).