Notes for Charles Frederick HUTCHINSON

The Descendants of Richard Hutchinson of Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England

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Notes for Charles Frederick HUTCHINSON

!Birth, Marriage & Death: Source: _Genealogy of the Hutchinson Family: In
England From 1282 to 1635 And in America from 1635 to 1976_,
compiled by G. H. Hutchinson, 1897, updated by Carl Eugene Hutchinson
and Martha Hutchinson Streeter, Typescript, 1989, pp. 12 & 13.

At the age of 5, Charles Frederick was taken by his family to Clay, Iowa, a small town 5 miles from Brighton. In 1878 he migrated with his family - wife and 2 children to Smith County, Kansas. Here the family went through the hardships and rigors of pioneer homesteading and brought forth a family of 14 children in all, of which 10 grew to maturity - eight brothers and two sisters. Charles Frederick and Maria Elizabeth spent the rest of their lives on the homestead which Charles named THE WELCOME STOCK FARM. This farm was widely known for its pedigreed livestock and the cheese manufactured there. (Streeter & Hutchinson, p. 51)

For stories about the lives of Charles and Maria and their children, please see UP FROM THE SOD by Carl Hutchinson published in 1981. (Streeter & Hutchinson, p. 51)

Charles' son, Dewey, remembers: "Father was a big man, not only in stature but in the affairs of the community. He was 6 ft. 3 in. tall and the mourners at his funeral rivaled in number the attendance at one of his annual auctions of livestock. He had been a lover and breeder of fine horses, and his hearse was drawn by a team that was sired by one of his favorite stallions. Services were held in the church at Cora. The church entrance opened into a hall which ran across the front of the building with a door at each of 2 aisles leading into the church proper. The undertaker succeeded in getting father's coffin into the entrance hall, but the coffin was too large and the hall too narrow to allow the coffin to be turned in the hallway through either of the doors leading into the church. No one knew what to do about it, but when Mother saw that they would either have to tear out the front of the building or else hold the funeral services with father's body left in the hall way, she said, 'I always did think Pa was too big for this place,' and led the way into the church." (Streeter & Hutchinson, p. 51)

Appears on the 1880 US Census for Smith Center, Smith County, Kansas,
LDS Film #1254397, p. 475D, as 'Charles F. HUTCHINSON, Self, M [Marital
Status], Male, W [Race], 27 [Birthplace], Farmer, VT [Father's Birthplace],
VT [Mother's Birthplace].'

Appears on the 1900 US Census for Blaine Township, Smith, Kansas, Film #1240501, ED 163, p. 7A, as 'Charles Hutchinson, Head, White, Male, Apr 1853, 47, Married, 25 [Years of Marriage], Vermont [Birthplace], Vermont [Father's Birthplace], Vermont [Mother's Birthplace], Farmer, Reads, Writes, Speaks English, Owns Mortgage-Free Farm.'

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