here he is with his wife martha findley hutcheson, in their sunday best, in a photograph possibly taken around 1900. wjh was born 4 years after john's death, so did not know his grandfather. john was a cotton and corn farmer. he died about 60 miles west from where he was born and for all we know that might have been the extent of his travels. he and his brothers floated log rafts down the escambia river to the pensacola mills, so john would, at least, have seen the ocean. he was a moonshiner, knew the art and science of distilling corn whiskey and that got him into trouble with martha and with the the pleasant grove baptist church which frowned on liquor and fiddle music. his brothers called him "son." in a letter from 1979, cousin mae hutcheson wrote that she remembered his death and his funeral on the afternoon of dec 27 1915 when the weather was "cloudy cold, almost sleet weather." 
Sunday, September 12, 2010
John Hutcheson (1854 - 1915)
speaking of john hutcheson, grandfather of wjh...
here he is with his wife martha findley hutcheson, in their sunday best, in a photograph possibly taken around 1900. wjh was born 4 years after john's death, so did not know his grandfather. john was a cotton and corn farmer. he died about 60 miles west from where he was born and for all we know that might have been the extent of his travels. he and his brothers floated log rafts down the escambia river to the pensacola mills, so john would, at least, have seen the ocean. he was a moonshiner, knew the art and science of distilling corn whiskey and that got him into trouble with martha and with the the pleasant grove baptist church which frowned on liquor and fiddle music. his brothers called him "son." in a letter from 1979, cousin mae hutcheson wrote that she remembered his death and his funeral on the afternoon of dec 27 1915 when the weather was "cloudy cold, almost sleet weather."
here he is with his wife martha findley hutcheson, in their sunday best, in a photograph possibly taken around 1900. wjh was born 4 years after john's death, so did not know his grandfather. john was a cotton and corn farmer. he died about 60 miles west from where he was born and for all we know that might have been the extent of his travels. he and his brothers floated log rafts down the escambia river to the pensacola mills, so john would, at least, have seen the ocean. he was a moonshiner, knew the art and science of distilling corn whiskey and that got him into trouble with martha and with the the pleasant grove baptist church which frowned on liquor and fiddle music. his brothers called him "son." in a letter from 1979, cousin mae hutcheson wrote that she remembered his death and his funeral on the afternoon of dec 27 1915 when the weather was "cloudy cold, almost sleet weather." 
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