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2--Hinton News,Thurs. June 7, 1979
INTON NEWS
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays
By the
Hinton Publishing Corporation
210 Second Ave.
Hinton, W,Va. 25951
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By Bill
gressler
It is interesting to study and
learn the history of our United
States Presidents. The follow-
ing history of some of the parts
of our Constitution, explaining
the "Qualifications of the Pres-
ident", was written in " Com-
pton's Pictured Encyclpoedia
'and Fact-Index."
"The Constitution provides
that the president must be a
papular vote.
In addition to these three
presidents, several others have
gained the office without re-
ceiving a majority of the total
popular vote. Polk, Taylor,
Buchanan, Lincoln, Garfield,
Cleveland, and Wilson were also
"minority presidents," because
they had a minority of the
popular vote though they had a
would attend every political
meeting in Summers County
during a presidential election.
He was a solid Democrat, and
wouldn't vote any other way.
During an election year, when
Franklin D. Roosevelt was run-
ning against Wendel Wilkie, my
grandfather had a large picture
of Franklin D. Roosevelt which
covered the glass in his front
Second clas postage mid at Hintom W. Va.
:' ' , - :, -- native-born citizen, 35 years majority in the Electoral COIl- door. While he was out to one of
• . - • .,
!i ' old, who has lived in the United ege. the political meetings in the
i ple'00 i states f°r 14 years" u not The date of the presidential county, one of his grandsous
eo limit the number of terms he inauguration is now January 20, slipped Wendel Wilkie's picture
may be re-elected, but in 1947 instead of March 4, as it was over Franklin D. Roosovelt's
](/a igs,. ;-.... \\; TI ? ffi=fmaffin the states began votingon a until/the20thamendmentwent picture. Grandfather Briers
',, proposed amendement that into effect in October 1933. In came home happy from the
would limit the president's set- taking the oath of office before grand meeting of the Democ-
vice to two elected terms or a the chief justice of the Sup- ratic Party, and when he st-
total of ten years. No pre- reme Court the president pied- arted walking through his front
'" sident has served more than two ges himself to "preserce, pro- gate, there was Wendel Wilkie
By Frederick I terms except Franklin D. Roos- tect, and defend the Constitut-'s picture staring straight at
evelL He was elected for four ion of the United States." He is him and to the public view. He
| \\;\ \\;V ![ D. Long ] terms. " . specifically empowered to turned and ran crying over to
The Constitution further pro-. commander in chief of the army our house. My mother asked
l " v idesthatthepresidentshall be and navy, to commission "all him what was the trouble, and
' elected, not by the legislature, the officers of the United St- why he was crying? He rep-
In my last column I told how- Indian Creek containing 300' nor by the people, but by a ates", to fill all vacancies that lied. "Someone has put Wendel
John Hinton became the owner acres was sold at public sale to special group of presidential may happen during a recess of Wilkie , the Republican pres-
of the land where most of the the highest bidder for $2,701.50. electors. "Each state shall app-| the Senate, to call extra sess- idential candidate's picture
city ofHinton is today: How he After pa.y!ng the cost, $2,564.95 oint, in such manner as thel ions ofCongress, to maketreat- over Franklin D. Roosevelt's
and his brother David came to was credited towarus nis oebt to legislature thereof may direct, i ies ( provided two- thirds of the picture for all the public to see,
own land together on Indian Mr. Beirme. a number of electors, equal to' Senate concur), to reprieve and and now I am ruined for life in
Creek. I mentioned four child-
ren bY his first wife, Eleanor.
As fa r as I know John Hinton
had ohly one daughter. I said
that it Was Adeline, however she
was his daughter-in-law, the
wife of his son John Hinton Jr.
John Hinton's daughter was
Sarah brn Dec. 1823 and died
Sept. 25, 1904.
On Feb. 27, 1840 John Hinton
and David made a division of
the land hey held jointly on
Indian Crek. On that date John
borrowed ;3,500.00 from And-
rew P. Beir/ne. He made a deed
in trust to Augustus A. ,CI .ap
man and Wlliam Ellis for'the
land on Indian Creek Stating
that if he :lid not pay Mr.
Beirme by :eptembeP 4, 1841
the land wotdd be soldto the
highest bidd W at the court
house door ot Monroe County.
John Hinto must have had
plans of impr@ving his land on
Greenbrier anl New River, but
he soon needec to borrow more
money. On Oct. 3, 1840 he
borrowed $960.0 from Robert
Campbell and n Dec. 10, 1840
: he borrowed a otal of $1,300.00
/from John Maddy his father- in-
::law, Charles Maddy hisbrother
.':- in- law, and David Hinton. By
<'; the end of the year John Hmton
?',: owed over $5,760.00 a very large
:u of, money in those days.
:F Tr6t,V came the following
d.year nen George and Isaac
:E, Ballenee, brothers of Henry
:'=Ballengee, took John Hinton
into court over the boundary of
the David Graham land that he
bought in 1836. They maintain-
ed that part of this land was
theirs as heirs of Isaac Ball-
engee, their father; and that
John Hinton had to pay them for
his use and profit of the land for
the past five years. John Hinton
was in and out of court all year.
Still he managed to pay Rob-
ert Campbell back, but he lost
the suit and was forced to sell
"all his rights and interest in his
crops of Corn which are now
growing on the lands of John
:Hinton adjoining the lands of
:"David Hinton and land adjoin-
:: ing George and Isaac Ballengee
i to the highest bidder at public
:': sale for cash to pay Isaac and
i*, George Ballengec."
:=. John Hinton had asked Mr.
-,Beirme for a one year ext-
." ention on his loan and this was
"grauted to him, however with
the loss of his crops of corn,
which was sold Aug. 1842, he
didn't have the money to pay his
other debts. He paid John and
Charles Maddy and David Hin-
ton a hundred dollars each and
sold two- thirds interest in his
land where Hinton is today and
on Dec. 29, 1842 the land on
John Hinton continued to fall,
deeper in debt. On August 3¢
1843 he had to borrow $400.00
from his son Evan. As near as I
can figure, it was in order to pay
his property taxes. At that time
the land where Hinton is today
was divided between Monroe
and. Greenbrier Counties. His
Madams Creek land was in
Greenbrier and Fayette Count-
ies. For this reason John Hin-
ton tried for several years,
without success, to secure a new
county. In order to pay this debt
to his son, Evan, a deed of t.nmt
was made out to ilUam Ellis,a
justiceiof, the peace,' April 12,
1843. Among some miscellan-
eous items was "all my grain
for four years, fifteen head of
hogs, four head of cattle, one
gold watch commonly called the
cart wheel."
This was the year John Hin-
ton married Avis Gwinn the
widow of Rheuben Nickols. On.
June 26, 1843 a marriage con-
tract was signed by Avis Nick-
ols and John Hinton, it was
witnessed by John Gwinn, Will-
iam Gwinn and Lewis M. Gwinn
brothers of Avis and reads in
part. "whereas a marriage is
shortly intended to be had and
solomised by the permission of
God by and between the said
John Hinton and the said Avis
Nickels and whereas the said
Avis Nickels is possessed of a
considerable real and personal
estate .... it has agreed that the
said John Hinton should after
the said intended marriage en-
joy during the joint lives of
them the said estate and after
the deceased of them, as should
first happen to die, should be at
the sole and only disposal of the
said Avis Nickols not withstand-
ing it has been also agreed that
in ease the said Avis Nickols
should after said intended
marriage happen to survive the
said John Hinton that she should
not have or claim any part of
the real or personal estate
whereof the said John Hinton
should possess .... but if she dies
before him then unto such per-
son or persons that she may
direct by her last will and test-
ament" (the estate due her as
widow of Rheuben Nickels). In
other words if John Hinton died
first, Avis would not inherit, by
common law, any part of John
's estate, and the same was true
if Avis died first.
On July 4, 1943, in Fayette
County John Hinton and Avis
Gwinn Nickel were married.
Next how Avis Hinton gets com-
plete control of the real and
personal estate of John Hinton
nine years before his death.
the whole number of senators
and representatives to which
the state may be entitled in
Congress." The makers of the
Constitution thus clearly intend-
ed that this Election College
should be independent of the
people in. choosing a president.
For a few years the elect-
ors did choose the president.
But the rise of party politics
soon made the electoral vote
only an echo of the popular vote.
Today the electors still nom-
inally have the right to choose
whomever they think best qual-
ifil , Iut precedent and pub:
lie opinion usually bind them to
vote for the candidate sponsor-.
ed by the party which elects:
them. Only twice has an elec-
tor voted against his state par-
ty's candidate, once in 1820,
once in 1948.
In the spring or early sum-
mer of a presidential election
year, each of the political part-
ies holds a national convention
to choose its candidate for the
presidency. On the Tuesday
after the first Monday in Nov-
ember of that year, each party
submits to the voters a list of
electors, who will vote in the
Elector College for their own
party candidate. That is why we
usually know, as soon as the
electors have been chosen, who
the new president will be, even
though he is not formally el-
ected until Congress counts the
ballots of the Electoral College
in January. Should no presid-
ential candidate receives a maj-
• ority in the Electoral College,
the House of Representatives
chooses the president by ballot
from the three who have the
highest number of votes. In this
balloting each state has one
vote. The vice- president would
be similarly chosen by the
Senate.
From time to time there has
been agitation to abolish the
Electoral College on the ground
that it does not represent the
full will of the people. Under the
Electoral College system three
men gained the presidency even
though other candidates had a
larger popular vote. These were
John Quincy Adams, Ruther-
ford B. Hayes, and Benjamin'.
Harrison. Adams was elected'
by the House of Representatives
when the Electoral College gave
no candidate a majority. A
special electoral commission,
decided the disputed election of
Hayes and Tilden in favor of
Hayes. The states that Harrison
carried had enough electoral
votes to give him a majority in
the Electoral College, though
Cleveland had beaten him in the
pardon offenders against the
United States, and - with the
advice and consent of the Sen-
ate - to appoint ambassadors,
Supreme Court justices, and
other federal officials whose
.appointments are not otherwise
wovided for by the Constitut-
io,m"
The presidential candidates
today are still being nominated
and elected by papular vote and
the electoral college. In the
early days, politicians met in
large groups in eery c o,uoty:o
speak and work for their favor-
ite candidate. I remembewhen
my maternal grandfather, Mr.
George T. "Pappy" Briers
Dean's List ,
• Announced ',
Craig D. Willis, Vice Pres-
ident and Academic Dean of
Concord College, has released
the Dean's List for the 1979
Spring Semester.
Two hundred and thirty- eight
students are listed, and of these,
50 obtained a perfect 4.0 aver-
age.
Students with a perfect 4.0'
average from the Hinton area
were: Lisa Jo Humphreys of
Bailard, Sue Ann Spangler of
Bailard; Medeta Faye Miller of
Forest Hill, Kathy Marie But-
ler of Peterstown, Glenna K.
Chandler of Peterstown, Debra
Lynn Dalton of Peterstown,
Natty W. MeKenzie of Peters-
town.
The remaining students on
this Spring's Dean List from the
surrounding I-Iinton area were:
Sandra K. Lilly of Ballard,
Jayme Beth Hutchison of For-
est Hill, Mary Patricia Ames,
Lisa Y. Cambell, Robin S. Ford,
Thelma Jean Garten, Larry
Darrell Gwinn, Loue Ann HaIl-
oran, Richard Kent Lilly, Ron-
aid Keith Lilly, Virginia May
Lowry and Mary F. Shrader, all
of Hinton; Jimmy Dale Fitz-
patrick of Jumping Branch,
Theresa M. Beasley, Drema
Kay Harvey, Cynthia K. Hazel-
wood, Rebecca F. Kaluk and
Lucinda J. Spangler, all of
Peterstow, Cora M. Harris of
Pipestem, and Diane Kay
Ward, Sandstone.
About 63 percent of all
American families own their
own homes.
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