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The Columbus Ledger Enquirer   March 7,1982


107- Year-Old son of Slaves is Buried

Alfe Luttrell, 107- year old son of slaves, never
quite finished the gunstock he was whittling shortly
before his death Feb. 27, 1982 at the Columbus
Medical Center. He had lived in Catuala, Ga.

The funeral and burial were Saturday at Long Street
Baptist Church, Cataula GA.

He was born Dec. 22, 1874, son of Mr. and Mrs. Judge
Luttrell. He came to the Valley area from Nashville
Tenn., an undetermined number of years ago, brought
by a family named Luttrell, whose name he took, said
his son, John Luttrell of Columbus, Ga.

The family settled in Ellerslie, but Luttrell had
also lived in Waverly Hall, his son said.  He said
his father probably was a handyman for the
Luttrells, but from that time to his death he held a
variety of jobs.

First, he was a sharecropper in Harris County, said
John Luttrell. Then, he once "hiked lumber" for
sawmills in the Americus and Omaha, Ga., areas,
commuting to the Waverly Hall area on weekends.

Then came about 15 years with the Central of Georgia
Railroad, fixing boilers on the old steam engines.
That was probably in the 1920's, according to his
son.

Franklin Roosevelt's WPA gave him a jog scattering
dirt on sidewalks. He'd walk 8 miles a day to get to
that job in Hamilton, and 8 miles back home to
Catuala.

The elder Luttrell also tended a lake for a Columbus
law officer, and helped raise and repair houses for
a Harris County Physicisn, his son said.

But Luttrell was probably most widely known for his
woodwork, especially the gunstocks he'd whittle in
the front yard. " And he never used any electric
tools, did it all by hand," his son said.

Luttrell was a member of Lewis Hayden Masonic Lodge
No. 6. He outlived two wives, Addie Griffin Luttrell
and Jennie Johnson Lutrell.

Survivors other than his son, John, include two
other sons, Sylvester Luttrell Griffin of
Birmingham, Ala., and James Luttrell Griffin of
Columbus; a daughter Liz Beach Brown of Milwaukee,
Wis; 12 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren, 25
great-great grandchildren.