William Hemingway (July 19, 1869 - November 5, 1937) was the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, from 1901 to 1905, and a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1920.
[1][2] He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1889, and was admitted to the bar in 1897.
[1] He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives to represent Hinds County in 1920, but he resigned soon after election to be the state's Assistant Attorney General.
[1] Her father, William Fisk Hyer, was a member of the Mississippi Legislature in 1871.
[1] William and Grace had several children, but all of them died in infancy.