 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas
 H.G. Stinnett, Jr. 1888 - 1950 The Dallas News August 1934 Horatio Stinnett, Pioneer Sherman Miller, Succumbs Leader in Southwestern Industry Died at Home at Age 72 Sherman, Texas, August 25 - Horatio G. Stinnett, 72, prominent in the milling industry in Sherman and the Southwest for almost half a century, died Friday at his home here. He had been in ill health for several years, retiring from active business five years ago. Stinnett was active in the work of Travis Street Methodist Church for more than 30 years, serving for many years as superintendent of the Sunday School and as chairman of the board of stewards. He also was a director in the Merchants and Planters Bank of Sherman. Burial was in West Hill Cemetery. Stinnett was born in Pilot Grove September 5, 1861. He attended Texas A&M College in 1878 and 1879 and took a special course in business administration at Eastmon College, Poughkeepsie, New York in 1883 just before he began his milling career with his father. In June 1887 he married Miss Annie McLeod of Paris and three children were born to them, H.G. Stinnett, Jr. of Plainview, McLeod Stinnett of Sherman, and Mrs. E.L. Holsten of New York City, all of whom survive him. For more than 40 years Stinnett followed the progress of the milling industry in Sherman. He was familiar with milling in the early days when business was largely a matter of custom and the seller of wheat and corn was also the buyer of flour and meal. In his own experience also he could contrast methods of the old days when steers pulled the heavy millstones, with the grinding process of modern machinery which has made possible Shermans' place as a miller center and producers of 1% of the world's output of flour. He witnessed the evolution of the Old Magnolia mill which his father, the late J.F. Stinnett, founded in 1878 from a mill of 75 barrels per day to one of 1,000 barrells daily capacity at the time of his retirement in 1929. West Hill Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
