An avid baseball player, Hinton passed up a chance to join the Cleveland Indians because he did not want to spend time away from his wife and young son.

Ted Hinton was also once acquainted with young Bonnie Parker while she was working in Marco's Cafe in Dallas.

Hinton admitted in a later biography that he had a crush on Bonnie, which made it difficult for him as one of the men on the team sent to kill her and her lover, Clyde.

An accomplished pilot, he gave flying instructions to new recruits in the Army Air Corps just prior to World War II.

[4] The couple had at least one child, former Dallas County Deputy Linton Jay "Boots" Hinton (January 1, 1934 – December 5, 2016), who had since 2004 operated the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum in Gibsland, Louisiana, and also served as a Specialist 3 for the United States Army during the Korean War.