LETTER: H. F. Hutcheson to Mrs. Ann Legrand, 1925 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Mary Love Berryman 3 August 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ***************************************************************** Letter found in the Goodman file at the Smith County Historical Society Archives, Carnegie History Center Tyler, TX Copied by Mary Love Berryman, July 31, 2002 Office of County Clerk Mecklenburg County, Boydton, Virginia H. F. HUTCHESON CLERK DEPUTY CLERKS T. W. WALKER JOHN Y. HUTCHESON N. 0. HUTCHESON Feb'y. 10th. 1925 Mrs. Ann Legrand Tyler, Texas My dear cousin Ann:- I have been intending writing you for sometime to get you to give me what information you may know regarding the Hutcheson family. I have been interested some years in getting the genealogy straight and especially the links between us and Robert or William Hutcheson who I have always understood were of our family. I am enclosing herein an extract from records gotten up by Dr. Lyon G. Tyler and myself and I want to get more of the other Hutchesons- John, Richard & Peter their desecn­dants and out common ancestry. Now I have always understood that your father Captain John Hutcheson was a son of the John Hutcheson, brother to Charles &C. i e, one of the original four brothers who came here. That would have made him and my grandfather Joeseph first cousins. I am in­clined to think though that possibly he was a gandson of this John though from this reason. The will of this John dated June 5th. 1781 and probated April 17th. 1782 mentions that he wants his estate kept together until his youngest child is ten years of age. He mentions his wife Betty (Elizabeth Childs of course) speaks of a negro given to his son Chiles by his (Chiles) grandfather) and then mentions all his children naming Chiles first and then John, Samuel, William, Jemina, Mary, Susannah, & Elizabeth and also that his wife is expected to give birth to another child. He names his brothers Charles, Richard, & Peter and Sons Chiles and John as his executors. Two of these brothers qualified but neither son. I would suppose the sons not being old enough. I got the information from aunt Polly Black or some one else that your father was born in the year 1772. This would have made him only nine when his father died. Then too if he gave the names in order of their ages- which is likely there vere six already born presumedly after John and if so within nine years. It may be though some of the girls were older and like a lot of the old people of his day he thought the boys more important and so named them first. Uncle Robert Hutcheson told me once that his grandfather John who practically raised him as cousin William died when uncle Robert was quite young used to tell him that his mother married a second time to a Mr. William Barber- an old Revolutionary soldier who was blind and lived on the Roanoke river below St. Tammny's ferry and they all went down there to live and he used to have to lead his stepfather around about the farm - and that it was such a lonesome place and he was so anxious to get back to the Laytons creek country that he would lead the old man over rough places sometime hoping he would fall down and break his neck- but that the old fellow never lost his temper. Now putting this with the record of Mr. Berbers and the widow Betsy Hutchesn will it looks like good evidence that he is the son of this John. Please write me about this particularly. Chiles married and left one daughter Elizabeth I believe. Three of the (The page was torn off here.) Second Page - Mrs. A. L. No. 2 What became of these other children? I believe one married a Brown I don't mean cousin John Browns mother as she was your half sister. One too I believe married a Johnson. Your father was married first to Nancy Stone. then to the widow Mary Jones Suggett and then to your mother Mary Clay. I believe too you had three half sisters who married Walkers. Two of these going south. I believe Govern Clifton Walker of Georgia is a descendant of one and the other Walkers or most of them got to Florida. I will certainly appreciate it if you will write me all you know of this family. I hope this will find you well and that Jim is wel1 and doing well. I oc­casionally hear from Joe Hutcheson who is now Judge of the Southern Federal District of your state. Of course you know that his father died last Spring. Cousin Willie Wilson, daughter of cousin William Hutcheson died last sum­mer too. Whilst attending the National Democratic Convention last summer I went to see Staella Dabney- who was visiting her daughter who married a Mr. Baker in Mew York. Mildred was up on Long Island and we did not see her. We are all getting on very well here. There have been no recent deaths or marriages in the family. Last year was a very poor crop year for the farmers. Unlce Bob Hutcheson has only one child living. Joe who is still merchandising in Chase City and doing well. All five of Evies children are living. Clifford married a young lawyer in Lunenburg county named Blackwell and is doing well. Cousin Sissy (Mary) daughter Celine lives in California. She married again several years ago. Cousin Alice Youngs children are all doing well. Adelle who married my brother Sterling and lives at our old home place has no children. My wifes health is better. My oldest boy Sterling has been practicing law five years and doing well. John the second son is now Chief deputy in my office. Herbert. Jr. works for the Imperial Tobacco company and has been stationed mostly at Rocky Mount N. C. for five years though had worked some in Georgia. He gets a good salary and has nothing to do about five months in the year. He got home last night to be with us until July. Nat the next boy is a deputy in my office. William is a third year man at the University of Virginia and will be a Doctor. Jos. C. finished the High School last session and is now a student at the Va. Episcopal School at Lynchburg. He will enter the University next session to prepare to be a lawyer. Mildred Alice is now sixteen and we are proud of her. I think she is plenty good looking and sensible. Jimmie, the baby will be thir­teen next May. John Young has four children. Roberts boy is being raised by Alice. Alice and this boy live with my brother Sterling and Adelle. John Youngs wife has been in very poor health and she has just returned from a hospital in Richmond, My sister lives in Raleigh N.C. I fear you will tire of such a long letter. Most truly yours (H. F. Hutcheson)