Byrum Wilburn Hinds
Byrum Wilburn Hinds was born on April 14, 1837, in Alabama, to Byrum Hinds and Elizabeth Childress. His father was a farmer who owned $2,200 of personal property in 1860. Hinds grew up in Marshall County, Alabama, and he married Margaret Pickett there on December 27, 1860. They had at least eight children: Ernest, born around 1864; Ida, born around 1867; Martha, born around 1869; Margaret, born around 1871; Alfred, born around 1874; Clifton, born around 1878; Harry, born around 1880; and Mary Alberta, born around 1885. Hinds enlisted in the Confederate army on March 13, 1863, and mustered in as a corporal in Holloway’s Company of Alabama Cavalry. He surrendered on April 28, 1865, in Greensboro, North Carolina, as part of General Joseph E. Johnston’s army.
After the war, Hinds attended medical school at the University of Nashville before returning to Marshall County and working as a physician. By 1870, he owned $3,500 of real estate and $3,263 of personal property. The family moved to Madison County, Alabama, sometime between 1880 and 1900. He died in New Hope, Alabama, on August 21, 1906.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (323) | Hinds, Byrum W. | 1837-04-14 | 1906-08-21 |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Corporal
- Rank out: Corporal
- Rank highest: Corporal
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (870) [writer] ~ Byrum W. Hinds to Margaret Hinds, 26 May 1863
People - Records: 1
- (323) Hinds, Byrum W. is the [husband of] (324) Hinds, Margaret
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (7) [enlisted] ~ Holloway's Alabama Cavalry Company
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929, available from Ancestry.com; Military Service Record for Byrum W. Hinds, available from Fold3.com; Veterans’ Gravesites, 1775-2019, available from Ancestry.com.
