Bert & Anna Hutchins
Deckelman Ridge, Winchester Hill, Hutchins Spring and Ledogar Flats all north of Warren Peak were named after family members of Bert and Anna Hutchins. Their extended family all homesteaded in the area. Anna’s maiden name was Deckelman. Her mother came west with her four children and homesteaded near Mrs. Deckelman’s brother, Jacob Ledogar. One of Mrs. Deckelman’s daughters, Francis, married Frank Winchester, who took up a homestead patent next to his mother-in-law. Another daughter, Anna, married Bert Hutchins who also homesteaded nearby.
Herbert Edmund “Bert” Hutchins was born to James Lawrence Hutchins and Louisa Ann Lewis. His father, James Lawrence “Uncle Jim” Hutchins was an oldtimer in the country having brought his 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 (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 oen 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.”
Jim’s father was William Hutchin, 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.” He was born in Ohio in 1812 – at the age of 24 he 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.
Bert and Anna’s families left more than names in the Bear Lodge -- Ila Anna was the first born child of Herbert and Anna Hutchins. Ila Anna was still-born on her Father's homestead in the Bear Lodge Mountains of Crook County. James Walton was born on his Father's homestead in the Bear Lodge Mountains of Crook County. Died at the age of 4. He and still-born Ila Anna are buried on the homestead.
Deckelman Ridge, Winchester Hill, Hutchins Spring and Ledogar Flats all north of Warren Peak were named after family members of Bert and Anna Hutchins. Their extended family all homesteaded in the area. Anna’s maiden name was Deckelman. Her mother came west with her four children and homesteaded near Mrs. Deckelman’s brother, Jacob Ledogar. One of Mrs. Deckelman’s daughters, Francis, married Frank Winchester, who took up a homestead patent next to his mother-in-law. Another daughter, Anna, married Bert Hutchins who also homesteaded nearby.
Herbert Edmund “Bert” Hutchins was born to James Lawrence Hutchins and Louisa Ann Lewis. His father, James Lawrence “Uncle Jim” Hutchins was an oldtimer in the country having brought his 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 (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 oen 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.”
Jim’s father was William Hutchin, 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.” He was born in Ohio in 1812 – at the age of 24 he 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.
Bert and Anna’s families left more than names in the Bear Lodge -- Ila Anna was the first born child of Herbert and Anna Hutchins. Ila Anna was still-born on her Father's homestead in the Bear Lodge Mountains of Crook County. James Walton was born on his Father's homestead in the Bear Lodge Mountains of Crook County. Died at the age of 4. He and still-born Ila Anna are buried on the homestead.