Mona Hinton
American educator, music contractor, and bookkeeper
Edmonia "Mona" Caesar Clayton Hinton (1919–2008) was an educator, music contractor, and bookkeeper, as well as a business partner and advisor for her husband, the bassist and photographer Milt Hinton.
Early life
Born in Centralia, Illinois, in 1919, Mona was the seventh of nine children of Nebuchadnezzar "Neb" Clayton and Rhoda (Bell) Clayton. She was born as her family was on the road moving from Okolona, Mississippi, to the north, relocating for better job opportunities as a part of the Great Migration of the time.
Mona grew up in Sandusky, Ohio, where the value of hard work was instilled in her from a young age. According to Mona, she had her first paying job by the age of 10, babysitting a family's children and handling their washing and ironing for $3 per week. After her father lost his job repairing train boilers during the Great Depression, everyone in the family was expected to contribute financially. Even so, money was extremely tight, and Mona recalls times when an apple or an orange would be divided nine ways for the children or when one pound of hot dogs would be stretched to feed a family of eleven.
Mona remembers her father as a very proud man who, even in the depths of the Great Depression, refused to accept any charity. He would regularly cut up old car tires and use the material to resole the children's shoes. Once after Mona's mother took the children to a relief center for food and used clothing, Neb insisted that they return the goods, telling the family, "We'll have to do without anything we can’t get on our own." These experiences helped instill in Mona the industriousness, determination, and discipline that would characterize the remainder of her life.
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