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Note: Excerpts from John Leonidas Vick's History of His Vick Family Cullman, Alabama, December 1895: On the 28th day of February 1829, their seventh child, a daughter was born and named Mary Euphemia, she wasa beautiful girl, intelligent and kind. February 17, 1848 sister Mary Euphemia Vick married Hugh Alexander Hinton. A son was born in the Spring of 1849 named Arthur. Sister Euphemia Vick died with Typhoid Fever on August 29, 1849 when her baby was only 5 months old. She was a member of the Baptist Church and a precious good woman, her only regret when dying, was leaving her baby. Mother kept the baby till he was 2 years old. Hinton married again and took the child. Hewas a heartless man and never permitted the child to visit us afterwards and he abused the boy. Hinton left his second wife and went to Mo. with the boy and the boy died when about 14 years old. Hinton became an opium eater before he died.
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