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Collection Title: Hinton (Margaret Thatch) Collection Collection Number: M419 Dates: 1922 - 1930 Volume: .70 cu. ft. Provenance: This collection was donated by Margaret Thatch Hinton in 1996 and 1998. Restrictions: Available for research use by the serious student and scholar. Copyright: This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code). Biographical/Historical Sketch: Margaret Alice Thatch and her twin brother Thomas Marion Thatch were born May 11, 1907, to Cicero Cherry Thatch and Nancy Rebecca “Nan” Black in Jones County three miles Northeast of Eastabuchie. Her father was born October 17, 1859, and died November 3, 1945, and her mother was born December 30, 1870, and died on March 12, 1947. Her parents were married on November 14, 1894 and celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1944. They moved their family from Jones County to the 2nd Judicial District in Perry County, Mississippi, shortly after Margaret’s birth. Forrest County was formed from that western part of Perry County, so as an infant, she literally went to sleep in one county and woke up in another, without moving. Margaret and her three siblings attended Grades 1-6 at Eastabuchie School. She was a 1929 graduate of The University of Southern Mississippi (then State Teachers College), where she played French horn in the marching band. She married John Durwood Hinton, and they had two sons: John Durwood Hinton, Jr. and Thomas Monroe Hinton. In 1956 she received a master's degree from USM (then Mississippi Southern College), and for thirty years, she taught Home Economics in the Petal (Mississippi) Public School District. She was a member of Eastabuchie Baptist Church. During the years of 1927 and 1928, Margaret Thatch toured with the State Teachers College Band on the “Know Mississippi Better” train. The train was the product of a mass meeting of Mississippi citizens called by Gov. Henry L. Whitfield in 1925. At the meeting, a committee was formed to conceptualize a plan for promoting the resources of the State of Mississippi, and Lt. Gov. Dennis Murphree was elected chairman. The result was a special train assembled to travel throughout the United States and into parts of Canada and Mexico, carrying Mississippi products, entertainers, dignitaries, and other spokespersons. The train ran every summer from 1925 until 1948, except during World War II. It traveled from ten days to two weeks, stopping at most depots and meeting the citizens of the towns. One of the train cars was filled with Mississippi produce and manufactured goods to display for the other states. The mayor of each town in which the train stopped, as well as the governor of each state, was given a Mississippi-grown watermelon. Margaret T. Hinton died October 24, 2005, at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She is interred in Highland Cemetery. She was preceded in death by her husband, Durwood Hinton, Sr., and one son, John Hinton, Jr. Sources:
Bond, Willard F. I Had a Friend. Kansas City: E. L. Mendenhall. 1958. Scope and Content: This collection consists almost exclusively of materials that document the college career of Margaret Thatch Hinton, a majority of which relate to the "Know Mississippi Better" tour train. Exceptions are a 1922 Colorado Agricultural College Bulletin and some picture story cards found in boxes of cereal. The collection is divided into four brief series: Series I – Brochures: This series is comprised of travel brochures from some of the states visited by the “Know Mississippi Better” tour train. Also included are brochures from British Columbia, Canada. Series II – Know Mississippi Better Train: This series consists of materials pertaining to the Know Mississippi Better Train, including correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and items of memorabilia. Of particular interest is a set of photographs taken during the train's 1927 and 1928 tours. Series III - State Teachers College:
This series contains band programs, news clippings, photographs, and a yearbook relating to State Teachers College. The photographs in this series were taken during a camping trip on Black Creek, near Hattiesburg, Mississippi in Spring 1929. Participants were members of the Home Management Group at State Teachers College.
Series III – Miscellany: In this series are a bulletin from Colorado Agricultural College and several picture story cards for children from packages of shredded wheat cereal. This collection should be of interest to researchers of the Know Mississippi Better Train, or the history of The University of Southern Mississippi.
Other Finding Aids:
Box and Folder List
Box and Folder List
Series I: Brochures Box 1
Folder 1 Arizona Brochures
Series II: Know Mississippi Better Train
Box 1
Box 2
Folder 1 Know Mississippi Better Train: Postcards (ca. 1927-1928) Folder 3 Know Mississippi Better Train: Stickers from Various Hotels (ca. 1927-1928) Folder 4 Know Mississippi Better Train: Tour of Chicago (Aug. 8, 1928)
Series III: State Teachers College
Series IV: Miscellany
Folder 10 Miscellany: Colorado Agricultural College Bulletin (1922)
Photograph Log
M419-1 Train in Texas
3 x 4; 4 x 5 B&W 1927
M419-2 Group Posing by a Train Car
M419-3 Pike's Peak
M419-4 Pike's Peak Train
M419-5 Pike's Peak View
M419-6 Building with Pillars
M419-7 Bears
M419-8 Valentine Depot M419-9 Texas Landscape
2 x 3 B&W 1927
M419-10 Ottis Waites, Bill Dodson, and Mildred East
M419-11 Touring Bus
M419-12 Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah
M419-13 Harlan Hilburn and Gladys Turrittin
M419-14 Cabin on Pike's Peak Trail
M419-15 Country Estate
M419-16 Cannon on a Beach
M419-17 Mississippi Train Cars
M419-18 Landscape
M419-19 Bill Dodson
M419-20 Monument
M419-21 Mrs. A. F. Fugitt and Margaret Thatch
M419-22 Pavilion
M419-23 Hills
M419-24 Unidentified Building
M419-25 Members on Train
M419-26 Tropical Setting
M419-27 Entrance to Zane Grey's Estate M419-28 Gabrielle Anderson
2 x 3 B&W ca. 1927
M419-29 Gabrielle Anderson and Mildred East
M419-30 Park in Arizona
M419-31 Mildred East, Margaret Thatch, and Gabrielle Anderson
M419-32 Mildred East, Gabrielle Anderson, and Margaret Thatch
M419-33 Gabrielle Anderson, Mildred East, and Margaret Thatch
M419-34 Aviary
M419-35 Dog and Building
M419-36 Texas Scenery M419-37 Utility Pole
2 x 3 B&W ca. 1927
M419-38 Margaret, Mildred, & Gabrielle
M419- 40 Sitting Pretty
M419-41 Valentine Depot
M419-42 Mountain
M419-43 Windmills
M419-44 W. T. Mobley and Donald Hall
M419-45 Know Mississippi Better Tour Group M419-46 Group Resting
Negative B&W ca. 1927-1928
M419-47 Margaret Thatch, Mildred East, and Gabrielle Anderson
M419-49 Railroad Track
M419-50 Girls and Cactus
M419-51 Margaret Thatch, Fishing
M419-52 Olive Cline
M419-53 Margaret Thatch, Driver
M419-54 Group Outside
M419-55 Girls Swimming in black Creek
M419-57 Women Relaxing
M419-58 Girl on Creek Bank
M419-59 On the Creek Bank
M419-60 Girls on a Bench |
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