Sam Houston Hynds, son of Judge Robert Henry Hynds, was born April 8, 1837 and named for his distinguished relative, General Sam Houston, of Texas, attended Maury Academy as a student. He read medicine, attended the Medical Department of the University of Nashville and had just returned home from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and located near Sevierville to practice with his cousin, Dr. Robert H. Hadsden, when the War broke out. He at once enlisted at Knoxville under Capt. John J. Reese, a son of the late distinguished Judge William B. Reese, under whom Judge Hynds had read Law in early life, this was Company "A" 3rd, Tennessee, and they saw a great deal of hard service from the first Manassas. Dr. Hynds served fully at the front lines all of the time he served. He did not return to Dandridge after the surrender, quoted as saying “Tennesseans were turning to the Union and if that was so he would "never step foot in his homeland again". He located in Arkansas with his brother Dave, married a Miss Hatfield, near Pulsaki, Tennessee. One of his comical quotes was " Oh! Mollie, Mollie, what shall I bring you, Why, I will bring you a wild uncaged damnable yankee to take you off to his cold frozen home in the green mountains of Vermont where the sun never shines, nor flowers bloom. She had better change her principles and come straight out for Jeff Davis and the Southern cause and live in the happy land of sunshine and southern flowers. Give her my regards and tell her I deplore and deeply sympathsize with her and hopes she will repent."

Samuel H Hynds