Charlie Etta Burney was the daughter of first generation natives of the wiregrass era of Georgia. She was seven years old when her family moved to Moultrie in 1902. They built a Victorian-styled home at the corner of First Avenue and First Street SW. She was educated in Moultrie and later attended Brenau College in Gainesville, where she studied music. After completing her studies, she returned to Moultrie and was active in the social life of the young, growing town. Miss Burney met Jack Hinson of Jacksonville, Florida and on a early April morning in 1916, they slipped out, went to the parsonage of the First Baptist Church, and were married by the pastor. Later that day, after disclosing their marriage to her parents, her relatives and a host of friends, the newlyweds left on a wedding trip to the mountains of north Georgia. Ten months later, on February 27, 1917, Mrs. Hinson died during childbirth. She and her infant were brought from Jacksonville to Moultrie for burial. Her husband commissioned an Italian artist to carve a statue of his beloved wife and baby. Mrs. Hinson.s father, Charles Burney, did not want his daughter resting under .foreign stone.. He persuaded the young husband that the grave itself should be covered with Georgia marble. The likeness of Charlie Etta Burney Hinson and her baby stand aloft in Westview, but their remains rest beneath marble from her native Georgia.
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