William Hutchin
William Hutchin was born in Ohio in 1812 -- his grandfather, another William, fought in Revolutionary War, Essex County, NJ Militia. At the age of 24 our William married Sarah Todd and two years later moved to Illinois. After residing there for 16 years, the family moved to Kansas, where he served as a member of the first legislature of that state. The family moved from Kansas to Colorado in 1882 and three years later came to Wyoming. His wife Sarah died several years before he arrived in Wyoming.
When he died in Hulett in 1897 at the age of 84 his obituary said he was “probably the oldest man in northeastern Wyoming and beyond a doubt the oldest in Crook County.”
Children –
James Lawrence
Thomas (Civil War Co H 30th Iowa Infantry, died 1863 in Illinois at age of 24 buried in national cemetery in Mound City, Illinois)
William Wallace (Civil War, Co E 6th Kansas Cavalry, stayed in Kansas)
Joel Gibbs (died 1864 aged 21, buried national cemetery Fort Smith, Arkansas)
Elizabeth (married C.C. Columbus Storm in Kansas, buried Hulett Cemetery),
Mariah (Hobbs)
Isaac (stayed in Kansas rest of life).
William’s son, James Lawrence “Uncle Jim” Hutchins was an oldtimer in the country having brought his wife Louisa Ann (Lewis) and family overland from Colorado to Wyoming in 1884. They traveled by covered wagon with oxen and had several good horses, as he raised horses. It was the Fourth of July when they arrived and all the flags were flying. He took up a homestead on Houston Creek, then homesteaded on Lytle Creek where he died at the age of 82 (also buried in Hulett Cemetery). “His dwelling was located close by the traveled road and his memory will always live especially for his sincere hospitality which was of the typical western type. His door was always open to the tired traveler friend or stranger and Uncle Jim as he was widely known was always ready to do his best to entertain and once met you always carried a warm place in your heart for him.”
Herbert Edmund “Bert” Hutchins was born to James Lawrence Hutchins and Louisa Ann Lewis. He and his wife Anna homesteaded in the area north of Warren Peak, along with members of her extended famliy. Deckelman Ridge, Winchester Hill, Hutchins Spring and Ledogar Flats all owe their names to those famliies. Anna’s maiden name was Deckelman. Her mother came west with her four children and homesteaded near Mrs. Deckelman’s brother, Jacob Ledogar. Another of Mrs. Deckelman’s daughters, Francis, married Frank Winchester, who took up a homestead patent next to his mother-in-law. Herb & Anna are buried in Mt Moriah Cemetery in Sundance.
William Hutchin was born in Ohio in 1812 -- his grandfather, another William, fought in Revolutionary War, Essex County, NJ Militia. At the age of 24 our William married Sarah Todd and two years later moved to Illinois. After residing there for 16 years, the family moved to Kansas, where he served as a member of the first legislature of that state. The family moved from Kansas to Colorado in 1882 and three years later came to Wyoming. His wife Sarah died several years before he arrived in Wyoming.
When he died in Hulett in 1897 at the age of 84 his obituary said he was “probably the oldest man in northeastern Wyoming and beyond a doubt the oldest in Crook County.”
Children –
James Lawrence
Thomas (Civil War Co H 30th Iowa Infantry, died 1863 in Illinois at age of 24 buried in national cemetery in Mound City, Illinois)
William Wallace (Civil War, Co E 6th Kansas Cavalry, stayed in Kansas)
Joel Gibbs (died 1864 aged 21, buried national cemetery Fort Smith, Arkansas)
Elizabeth (married C.C. Columbus Storm in Kansas, buried Hulett Cemetery),
Mariah (Hobbs)
Isaac (stayed in Kansas rest of life).
William’s son, James Lawrence “Uncle Jim” Hutchins was an oldtimer in the country having brought his wife Louisa Ann (Lewis) and family overland from Colorado to Wyoming in 1884. They traveled by covered wagon with oxen and had several good horses, as he raised horses. It was the Fourth of July when they arrived and all the flags were flying. He took up a homestead on Houston Creek, then homesteaded on Lytle Creek where he died at the age of 82 (also buried in Hulett Cemetery). “His dwelling was located close by the traveled road and his memory will always live especially for his sincere hospitality which was of the typical western type. His door was always open to the tired traveler friend or stranger and Uncle Jim as he was widely known was always ready to do his best to entertain and once met you always carried a warm place in your heart for him.”
Herbert Edmund “Bert” Hutchins was born to James Lawrence Hutchins and Louisa Ann Lewis. He and his wife Anna homesteaded in the area north of Warren Peak, along with members of her extended famliy. Deckelman Ridge, Winchester Hill, Hutchins Spring and Ledogar Flats all owe their names to those famliies. Anna’s maiden name was Deckelman. Her mother came west with her four children and homesteaded near Mrs. Deckelman’s brother, Jacob Ledogar. Another of Mrs. Deckelman’s daughters, Francis, married Frank Winchester, who took up a homestead patent next to his mother-in-law. Herb & Anna are buried in Mt Moriah Cemetery in Sundance.