Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - Mrs. Lucinda (Meek) Hutchins

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Mrs. Lucinda (Meek) Hutchins was born in Henry County, Ky., October 6, 
1824, and is a daughter of Jonathan and Catherine (Newhouse) Meek. The 
father was born in 1797 in Henry County, Ky., passed his life engaged 
in farming, and died in 1852. The mother was born in Kentucky in 1801, 
in 1850 moved to Illinois, and died in 1881. Her grandparents were 
Basil and Elizabeth Meek, and the former died in 1829. Our subject 
passed her youth in Henry County, Ky., with but few educational 
advantages, and in 1844 married A. C. Burgess. In 1849 they went to 
Illinois, and there engaged in farming until 1869. January 7. 1870, 
having made the journey by land, they arrived in Crawford County, 
where Mr. Burgess died, in 1882, aged fifty-nine. He was a Democrat, 
and while in Illinois served eight years as justice of the peace and 
four years as constable. He was a member of the Methodist Church, to 
which Mrs. Hutchins still belongs. In 1884 our subject was united in 
marriage to Henry B. Hutchins, who was born in Orange County, N. C., 
June 3, 1799, and died December 18, 1886. After leaving his native 
State he went to Tennessee, and in 1836 went to Texas, finally coming 
to Crawford County, Ark., in 1866. He served his township in the 
capacities of justice of the peace and constable for one term each, 
and by occupation was a farmer and stock raiser. He was a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and to him, by his first wife, 
eleven children were born, of whom three are deceased. John E., of 
Texas; James C., of Texas; Mrs. Samantha E. Felton, of Texas; Mrs. 
Nancy C. Stokes, of Texas; H. M. [see sketch]; W. M., of Washington 
County, Ark.; M. E., of this county, and G. B., also of this county, 
are the children still living. Those deceased are H. L., Samuel and 
Martha. 

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