Hi: I found this while browsing and thought it should go into our archives - lots of names. This is from the site of Oliver Hinds, his son, who gave permission to send it to the list. Regards Nan 71532.734@compuserve.com ============================ Found at: http://users.bscn.com/ohinds/joehinds.htm George Joseph Wesley Hinds 1901-1990 Joe Hinds, son of the late George V. and Sarah E. Green Hinds, was born in Helena, AR. He had lived in the NE Arkansas area since 1902. He was a landowner and a retired sawmill operator. For many years he served as a Church of Christ minister. He and his wife, Eula, donated the land for the Walnut Grove Church of Christ and School. He was a member of the Walnut Grove School Board. Joe Hinds, as he was known throughout northeast Arkansas, was a friend to many who had less than he. He never forgot the period of 1906-1916 which was so rough on his family. His brother Sam and he fished many times with their stepdad, Doc Brown all night long in those years. Subsequently Dad never fished after those years. I can hear him remark, "If I want any fish, I will catch them with a silver hook!" He meant that he would rather buy them than fish for them. He and his wife, Eula, owned more than thirty rental properties during the thiry-odd years preceding his death. He was a man that often paid the water, light, or gas deposits for those that "just didn't have the money" for a "new start." His humane advice to more than one of his children was, 'If all you want to do in this life, is to make a million dollars, well, just hit the cash register a few licks and get out of Trumann! We have too many money-grabbers here already and we don't need any more! Be a help to someone! Don't try to make all the profit and "gut" things so nobody else can make a living!" Joe was raised up in a time when a man's word was his bond! He was saddened to see the values of the nation brought down to the level of the "belly-achers" and complainers. His sage advice of, "Don't you owe society a little better than that?" sometimes went unheeded by at least one of his children. Joe's relatives include (at the time of his death) three daughters: Mrs. Vivian Presley and Mrs. Maxine Haun, both of Jonesboro and Mrs. Lorene Gardner of Trumann; eight sons; George Hinds of Jonesboro, John Hinds of Harrisburg, Terrell Hinds and Ferrell Hinds, both of Memphis, Tenn., Ira Hinds, Wayne Hinds and Oliver Hinds, all of Trumann, and Raymond Hinds of Charleston, Mo.; one half-sister, Mrs. Gladys Slatton of South Bend, Ind., 30 grand children; and 41 great-grand children. He was preceded in death: by his wife, Eula Hinds, who died in 1964, and by one daughter, Helen Hinds, who died in 1944, by a son who died in 1930, a half-brother, Paul Brown of Michigan. Joe Hinds is missed in this community, not only by his family, but a host of friends.