John Williams Hutcheson
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John Williams Hutcheson is the maternal grandfather to Minnie May McKey. He was born 8 March 1835 in Hardeman County, Tennessee, the son of Dr. Charles A. and Elizabeth Williams Hutcheson. He was a stocky build and had feet like the Staffords. He had almost finished his internship to be a doctor when the Civil War broke out. He joined the Confederate army and reached the rank of lieutenant, serving in Company F, 3rd Louisiana Calvary. He held the Yankees off all night on the Comite River in Louisiana and killed a Yankee soldier with his bare hands. He was paroled from the army at Gainsville, Alabama, 12 May 1865.
When he came home from the war, he began practicing medicine in the Centreville, Mississippi area without ever finishing his internship because they needed doctors so badly at the close of the Civil War. He first married Elizabeth Jane Stafford on 25 March 1858 in Wilkinson County Mississippi. Four children were born to this marriage. In 1867 (December 5) he married Charlotte Virginia (Jenny) Scudder. To this marriage, seven children were born. He died 10 March 1927 in Centreville. He is buried there near a landfill area, not too far from the Scudder farm (located on Cane Creek Road about two miles outside of Centreville) where he and Jenny resided. Note: According to Dell, the name Hutcheson, Hutchinson, Hutchison are all spellings of the same surname that was originally spelled Hutchinson. Someone did wrong, so the rest of the family changed and began spelling the name Hutcheson to separate them from those who had done wrong. The information below comes from an interview with Hutch and Dell Hutcheson at their home in Baton Rouge, June 1982.
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