Monroe County, AL 

The Family of Charles Luther Hutto & Ida Mae Riley (daughter of Capt. Thomas Riley Monroe Infantry, 5th Infantry, C.S.A) Top row: Robert Lee Hutto, Sallie H. Hutto, Riley C. Hutto.  Middle row: Thomas Hutto, Charles Luther Hutto, Ida Mae Riley Hutto, (baby) Bessie Grace Hutto, Lillian A. Hutto.  Seated  are Alama P. Hutto & Nina M. Hutto. 

Robert Lee Hutto, son of Charles Luther Hutto & Ida Mae Riley, married Frony Ophelia Rachels. They had seven children.

Taken 1915 Bells Landing Robert Lee Hutto & Wife Frony Ophelia Rachel Hutto (baby) Robert Percy Hutto . 

The Children of Robert Lee Hutto & Frony Ophelia Rachels Hutto. Standing Frances Hutto sitting Robert Percy Hutto, Standing Alma Laura Hutto Smith, 1915 in Bell's Landing, Hybart, Monroe Co., ALabama.

John E. Hutto, son of Robert Lee Hutto and Ophelia Frony Rachel Hutto, was born July 20 1915, Hybart, Monroe Co., Alabama, died Sept. 2 1978.  He was in the Submarine Division of the Navy during WWII.

Robert Percy Hutto, last son of Robert Lee Hutto & Ophelia Frony Rachel Hutto.  He was born Aug, 23 1912, Hybart, Monroe Co., Alabama and is still alive and lives in Monroe Co.,  Alabama.  He was in the Navy during WWII.

SSgt. Charles Luther Hutto, son of Robert Lee Hutto and Ophelia Frony Rachel Hutto, was born in Hybart, Monroe Co., Alabama on Feb 12 1920.   He was a  member of Co. L,  121 Infantry, 8th Infantry Division, 3rd Battalion.  

The 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, 3rd Battalion, was called the "Gray Bonnets" and can be trace back before the Civil War.  During the Civil War, it was a southern regiment.   Sgt. C. L. Hutto was part of this regiment when it landed and fought a major battle on the beach at Normandy, France on July 8, 1944 with two other battalions.  The 121st became known as the Lost Battalion because they were split from the other organizations from August 7 - 18, 1944.  Again reunited with their battalion, they fought in a major battle in Brest, France, the headquarters for the Nazi U-boat (submarine) Division.  Located three hundred and twenty miles south west from Paris, fifty thousand Germans protected the U-boats stationed there .  The German general in charge had been ordered by Hitler to defend the city no matter how many lives were lost.  It was here, on September 7, 1944 that SSgt Charles Luther Hutto was killed in action, for which he received a Purple Heart. 

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