Coffee County AlArchives Biographies.....Hutchison, William Jason December 27 1848 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    WILLIAM JASON HUTCHISON, planter of Beat No. 6, was born in Clintonville,
Coffee county, December 27, 1848. His mother was Martha Hutchison, now Mrs. J.
H. Walker, of Crenshaw county, and her father was William Hutchison, who was
probably a native of Georgia, born in 1812, but who came with his parents to
what is now Coffee county, where he married Hettie Mills, who came here about
the same time. After his marriage he settled about twelve miles below Elba, in
the woods, where he improved a farm, afterward removing to near Clintonville.
After his children all married and established homes of their own he lived among
them and died in Pike county about 1837, but was buried near Clintonville. He
was a great stock man, and a good farmer, and a man of no little prominence in
the community. He is believed to have been the first sheriff of Coffee county
and was once clerk of the circuit court. He held other positions of honor, and
was a man of a great deal of information. He was a public-spirited man, was well
known and accumulated considerable property. He was one of three sons and one
daughter, all of whom lived and died in Coffee county. Their father, Lewis
Hutchinson, was porbably a Virginian and came to what is now Coffee county in
1827, being one of the first white settlers in the vicinity. Here he lived for
nearly forty years, dying in 1856. He was married three times, his first wife
being the mother of the children, and she also died here. The subject's
grandmother, Mrs. Hettie Hutchison, is still living, aged eighty-three years.
She lived for some years among the Indians, and became quite familiar with their
customs, habits and language. She is the mother of ten children, viz.: Mahala,
who was the wife of A. J. Simmons, and who died in 1892; Rebecca, wife of Josiah
Snyder of Pike county; Martha, wife of J. H. Walker of Bullock, Crenshaw county;
and the mother of our subject; Jefferson, a private soldier of the Eighteenth
Alabama infantry, killed at the battle of Corinth; Dixon who served in the
cavalry in the extreme south during the war, and who lives in Mississippi;
Hettie, wife of Dallas Rudd of Texas; Edith, deceased wife of Henry Lightfoot;
Sarah, wife of John Linsey of Texas; Mollie, wife of John Lewis of Texas, and
Almira, deceased wife of E. W. Rusk. William J. Hutchison was reared on a farm
with but limited education, and at nineteen began life for himself. The first
year he worked on a farm, and then went into business at Clintonville. The next
year, 1871, he married Rebecca, daughter of Greene Rowell, a South Carolinian,
who came to Tallapoosa county, Ala., many years ago, where he and his wife died
when Mrs. Hutchinson was a little girl. Mrs. Hutchison was born in Tallapoosa
county, and has eight children, viz.: Steiner L.; Horace N.; Lucy Hunter; Mollie
Belle; Lena May; Mertie Lou; Willie Lee, and Minnie Pearl. Mr. Hutchison lived
near Clintonville a short time, and in 1875 he moved to his present farm, five
miles north of Elba, where he owns five hundred and eighty acres of land, about
one hundred and sixty acres of which is cleared. Upon this farm he raises cotton
and general supplies. In 1878 he was elected tax collector and served four
years; during which time he lived at Elba. He is a member of White Water
Alliance, No. 1053, of which he is business manager. Both himself and wife are
members of the Methodist church at Elba. Mr. Hutchison belongs to one of the
oldest families of Coffee county, and is one of its most prominent and
substantial citizens. He has never been known to shirk a duty because it was
unpleasant. He is well known and highly esteemed by all.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 672-673


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