Hinely, Elliot Bascom

1880 - 1941  (61 years)

• Name	Hinely, Elliot Bascom
  Born	30 Jan 1880	RIncon, Effingham County, Georgia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	28 Mar 1941	RIncon, Effingham County, Georgia, USA
  Buried	Goshen Methodist Church Cemetery - Rincon, Effingham County, Georgia, USA
  	Findagrave.com Memorial #39035267
  Person ID	I7259	Coursey-Sansing Tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Hinely, Thomas Harmon,   b. 25 Sep 1842, Effingham County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 1 Dec 1912, Effingham County, Georgia, USA  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Gnaan, Laura Olivia,   b. 11 Jan 1849,   d. 2 Nov 1889, At Home - Effingham County, Georgia, USA  (Age 40 years)
  Family ID	F2987	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Smith, Nellie Pender,   b. 8 Sep 1875, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina ,   d. 9 Jul 1959, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Children	1. Hinely, Thomas Elliot,   b. 30 Dec 1905, Georgia, USA ,   d. 29 Jun 1910, Georgia, USA  (Age 4 years)   2. Hinely, Pearl,   b. 1 Oct 1906, Rincon, Effingham County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 12 Oct 1997, Allendale County, South Carolina, USA  (Age 91 years)   3. Hinely, Selma,   b. 24 Dec 1908,   d. 3 May 1983  (Age 74 years)   4. Hinely, Lacy Walton,   b. 28 Oct 1911, Effingham County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 16 Jan 1999, Effingham County, Georgia, USA  (Age 87 years)   5. Hinely, Claude Jennings,   b. 8 Feb 1913, Georgia, USA ,   d. 17 Jul 1913, Georgia, USA  (Age 0 years)   6. Hinely, Vernon Charlton,   b. 5 Nov 1916, Rincon, Effingham County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 6 Jun 1994, Effingham Extended Care - Springfield, Effingham County, Georgia, USA  (Age 77 years)
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020
  Family ID	F3017	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Elliot Bascom Hinely
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• Notes

  Biography   Elliott Bascom Hinely was born at home in Rincon, GA. He had wavy black hair. He worked on a farm. He also ran a sawmill, first working for others and later for himself. He owned and operated small sawmills around Effingham and Chatham (GA) Counties. Then he got into logging in Bloomington (50-100 miles from Rincon, GA). He built a railroad to get the logs out of the swamp. He had several companies; one was the Bloomingdale Lumber Company. He was owner of the E.B. Hinely Lumber Company of Pineland, SC, which advertised "long and short leaf pine, rough and dressed, southern hardwoods." He would saw the lumber and sell it to retailers. He later quit the sawmills and did pre-fab framing for housing project roofs. He was owner and president of Industrial Lumber Company, a retail company in what is now Garden City, GA. Industrial Lumber Company advertised "long and short leaf pine, rough and dressed, mill work of all kinds, modern dry kiln and playing mill facilities. The main plant was in Savannah, GA, and sawmills in Ridgeland, SC, and Switzerland, SC. After his death in 1941, his wife Nellie sold his interest in the company for approximately $23,000. His son, Lacy, worked after school and during vacations in his father's fields and at his sawmills, which would be set up out in the woods where the timber was to be harvested. By his college years, Lacy had become an accomplished sawyer, second only in ability to his father, who was renowned for his skill in sawing up timber quickly and accurately. After WWI, the new home completed by Elliott B. Hinely was one of the first 3 homes in Rincon, GA, to have electric lights and running water (they had Delco-plants lights and electric pump or outside water tanks, before the town had such services. This house, sometimes called the "Windmill House" is located at 101 Georgia Avenue, Rincon, GA. He owned a yellow Ford roadster with a rumble seat. Elliott B. Hinely was Lutheran, a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rincon, GA (organized October 13, 1895). He is listed as one of the organizers, following his confirmation in April 14, 1895. Songs Selections for his funeral were "Abide With Me," "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere ," and "Safe in the Arms of Jesus." Elliott B. Hinely and and Nellie Pender Smith Hinely had one more daughter not currently listed on Find A Grave, Pearl Hinely Priester (1906 - 1997). Her obituary says she was buried at Hillcrest Abbey Memorial Park in Savannah, GA.