Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Hutchison, Noah O. 1841 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    CAPTAIN NOAH O. HUTCHISON, a prominent planter of Beat No. 12, Coffee
county, Ala., was born here in 1841. He is a son of Hon. Lewis and Caroline
(Cole) Hutchison, the former of whom was probably born in North Carolina; and
went with his parents to Georgia at an early day, and subsequently came to
Coffee county, Ala. Before his marriage he settled on the place where the
captain now lives, which he improved and made a good farm, and upon which he
spent the rest of his days, dying in September, 1865. He was a successful farmer
and accumulated a valuable property. He was a man of more than average
enterprise and ability, and represented Dale and Coffee counties in the state
senate with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. His father,
Lewis Hutchison, was probably a North Carolinian by birth, whence he removed to
south Georgia at an early day, while the Indians were still in the country. He
was thus one of the first settlers in this county and became familiar with the
customs and habits of the Indians. He was a prosperous farmer and died in 1868.
Thomas Cole, the maternal grandfather of the captain, was also one of the first
settlers in this county, spent his life here and died in the winter of 1865-66.
He was a man of good reputation, was perhaps the wealthiest man in the county,
and was married twice, the second time during the war. He was the father of five
children. The mother of the captain was probably born in this county, was the
mother of ten children, nine sons and one daughter, was a member of the
Missionary Baptist church, and died January 2, 1876. Noah O. Hutchison was the
second in the family, the names of the children being as follows: Missouri, wife
of J. T. Knight of Greenville, Ala.; Noah O.; Julian P. was in the eighteenth
Alabama, in the Tennessee army a short time and then on the coast for nearly two
years; Thomas; William C.; Daniel C., died during the war; Lewis P.; Lorenzo R,
and Costello Barto. In the summer of 1861 Noah O. joined company A, eighteenth
Alabama infantry, as a private soldier. At Corinth he first had a taste of real
war, and then went through the Kentucky campaign, fought at Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, through the Atlanta campaign and back with
Hood to Nashville; on the retreat to Mississippi was in the siege of Spanish
Fort, but escaped to Mobile, the night before the surrender, and went to
Demopolis and surrendered at Meridian, Miss. He was neither wounded nor captured
during the war, although he was in many severe battles. He served as third
sergeant, first sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and after the
battle at Chickamauga, in which his captain died of wounds, he was promoted to
the captaincy: Joseph Harper was his captain, and he was one of the bravest
soldiers in the war. During the battle of Shiloh, Captain Harper was shot
through the thigh, and although his regiment was not in the battle the second
day, he fought in a Tennessee regiment. After the war Captain Hutchison engaged
in farming, and in October, 1867, he married Fannie, daughter of William and
Catherine Walker, who removed from Georgia to Coffee county a good many years
before. They are both still living. Mrs. Hutchison was born in Georgia and is
the mother of eight children, six of whom are living. With the exception of
about six years, two of which, were spent at Clintonville, for the purpose of
educating his children, Mr. Hutchison has spent his life on the farm upon which
he was born, four and a half miles north of Clintonville. Here he has a fine
farm of 409 acres. He is one of the foremost citizens of the county, and is
widely and favorably known. He spares no pains nor expense in educating his
children, and in furthering their social progress. He was formerly a Mason, and
both himself and wife are members of the Primitive Baptist church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 670-672


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