TITLE:  Ernest Hinnant, Sr

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier, July 8, 2001

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, July 2001

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HINNANT, SR., Ernest
FLORENCE - Ernest Bryant "Monk" Hinnant, Sr., died Saturday, July 7, 
2001, in a Charleston hospital after an illness. Funeral services will 
be 5 p.m., Tuesday, July 10, 2001, in St. John's Episcopal Church. 
Burial will follow in Mt. Hope Cemetery, directed by WATERS-POWELL 
FUNERAL HOME. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m., Monday,
at the funeral home. He was born in Gastonia, N.C., a son of the late 
Thad Bryant and Kathleen Hook Hinnant. He served in the 101st Airborne 
Corp Headquarters during the Korean Conflict. He graduated from the 
Porter Military Academy, attended Furman University, and graduated 
from the University of South Carolina Law School. He was an attorney 
at law, and the Florence County Public Defender for 28 years. Mr. 
Hinnant was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church and the Episcopal 
Clergy Society of South Carolina. He was a former member of the Vestry
of All Saints Episcopal Church. He was a member of the American Bar 
Association, the South Carolina Bar Association, the Florence County 
Bar Association, and the Public Defenders' Corp. He was also a member 
of the Gamecock Club. Surviving are his wife, Kathryn Jho Wheeler 
Hinnant of the home; four sons, Ernest Bryant Hinnant, Jr., of 
Charlotte, N.C., Dewey Wheeler Hinnant of Martinsville, Va., Coley 
Culpeper (Shelley) Hinnant and Cody McGill Hinnant, of Florence; two 
grandsons, E.B. Hinnant, III, and Thomas Culpeper Hinnant; a 
granddaughter, Caroline Reynolds Hinnant; and a nephew, Thad Bryant 
Hinnant, Jr., of Columbia. The family will receive friends from 7 to 
9 p.m., Monday, at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may 
be made to the Episcopal Church Home for Children (York Place), 234 
Kings Mountain Street, S.C. 29745. (The Post and Courier July 8, 2001)
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