Living

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1910, Warren County, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1920, Warren County, Tennessee, USA; Civil District 4;
• Residence: 1935, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1942, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1953, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA

Notes:

Leander Travis Hutcheson, Jr. (know as L.T. Jr., and later, just as L.T. ) was born in Pikeville, Tennessee in 1904. He was the last of the 10 children of Lee Hutcheson (L.T. Sr.) and Olive Irene Kuykendall. His mother died when L.T. was just 4. Two years later, his father married Alma Freiley, who was not at all motherly, and who was pretty much despised by all of L.T. 's siblings. I can't say exactly how L.T. got along with his mother, but I know that his sister Edith (my grandmother) carried bitterness about her stepmother to her (Edith's) death in 1996, and reported that her stepmother often threatened to send the three children who remained at home to an orphanage.
L.T. was widowed three times. His first marriage was to Inez Ricketts in 1925. They had one daughter, Betty Carolyn, who married Budd Alexander, and who was still alive (as far as I know) at age 91 in 2017. Inez died at age 28 in 1936.
L.T.'s second wife was Rosebud McBroom. During World War II, they had two sons, L.T. III (known as 'Travis'), and Larry. Rosebud died in 1947.
L.T. and his third wife, Betty Koon had four children in the 1950's: Mary Elizabeth, Martha Frances, James Noel (he married Maurene Henry and they had LT IV), and John Lee (who was 30 years younger than his oldest half-sister, Betty).
LT Jr. was a district manager for Hoover Vacuum Company. He lived in Chattanooga, TN and Birmingham, Alabama.
After his third marriage, L.T. didn't maintain much contact with his siblings, who, were, for the most part, very close. Clarence Richmond, Jr. (L.T.'s nephew) is close to Betty Alexander's age, and did know Betty, but he met several of L.T.'s younger children for the first time at L.T.'s funeral in 1999. Clarence shared the family tree with his cousins at that time, and reported that several were quite unaware that they had so many close relatives.
- Robin Richmond (Clarence's son), leaning heavily on notes written by James Murphy (husband of L.T. Jr's niece Elizabeth Swallows), and transcribed and uploaded by James' daughter-in-law Alice Holliman Murphy.


Buried:
GRid=82704921; in ground grave stone. no obit.

Leander married Elizabeth Belle (Betty) Koon on 24 Dec 1948 in Lakeview, Catoosa County, Georgia, USA. Elizabeth was born on 5 Jan 1923 in West Virginia, USA; died on 6 Feb 1998 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA; was buried in Southern Heritage Cemetery, Pelham, Shelby County, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1940, Rockdale, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=82704868; no obit. In ground grave marker and family gravestone

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1860, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA; Age 5; Son of Joseph and Narcissa Hutcheson, along with 2 siblings.
• Residence: 1870, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA; Listed as "G.V", age 15, son of FJ and NA Hutcheson, with 6 younger siblings. Occupation:Farm Hand.
• Residence: 1880, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA; 26; Single (living alone); Farmer
• Residence: 1900, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA; As Lee A Hutcheson. 45, Married 19 years. Wife Ollie(40), plus Pearly(18), Katie(17), Mary(15), Mattie(13),Fannie(10). John(7), Clemma(3), Edith(2); Farmer; Owns own farm free from mortgage.
• Residence: Abt 1902, Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA; Moved to Spencer and worked as a shopkeeper to send children to Burritt College (a Church of Christ elementary/secondary school) in Spencer.
• Residence: 1910, Warren County, Tennessee, USA; As L.T. Hutcheson. Widowed; farmer, age 55. Children Mattie(21), John (16), Edith(12), David(9), LT(5)
• Residence: 12 Sep 1917, Rock Island, Warren County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1920, Warren County, Tennessee, USA; Civil District 4; As L.T. Hutchison, 65, wife Alma, and 4 children: including Pearlie (38), Edith (21),JamesDavid (19), and L.T. Jr (15). Occupation:Farmer.
• Residence: 1930, White County, Tennessee, USA; Age 75; Married; Wife Alma, also Rebecca "Farley", an Aunt (of his wife). Occupation: Farmer (actively working)
• Probate: 11 Jan 1934, White County, Tennessee, USA; Died intestate; estate administered by W.L. Swallows, his son-in-law

Notes:

Leander Travis Hutcheson Sr. married Alma Freiley in 1910. None of his children approved, or got along well with her - to say the least. My (Robin's) Grandmother, Edith, was 11 at the time, and she told us that her stepmother regularly threatened to send her away to an orphanage. At age 98, Edith still resented her step mother bitterly.

James Murphy (husband of L.T.'s granddaughter Elizabeth Swallows) reports:
None of Leander Travis Sr.'s children should have married "Miss" Alma and as soon as they could they went on their own. After Grandpa died Jan. 16, 1934 she never shared anything from the home with any child. There was one exception: "Miss Alma" after some time married a Mr. Howard and lived on the Sparta-Cookeville highway and then one day in the 1950's Mattie Hutcheson Swallows stopped and asked her to give the family Bible with all the family records to her. She agreed to do so. It was rebound and the broken sheets were laminated.

See also the attached letters written by and about him


Birth:
Some records identify him as "Lee" Hutheson

Buried:
GRid=61645406; Short obit. Small upright stone. Inscription: Married to Olive Kuykendall Sept. 23 1880

Leander married Olive Irene Kuykendall on 23 Sep 1880 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA. Olive (daughter of James Edward Kuykendall and Mary Ann (Polly) Matheny) was born on 28 Feb 1860 in Putnam County, Tennessee, USA; died on 13 Sep 1908 in Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Town Cemetery, Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1860, Putnam County, Tennessee, USA; Age 3/12, with parents J.E (21) and Mary Kuykendall (20)
• Residence: 1870, Putnam County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1880, Putnam County, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1900, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA; As Ollie Hutcheson(40). Husband Lee A (45), Children Pearly(18), Katie(17), Mary(15), Mattie(13),Fannie(10). John(7), Clemma(3), Edith(2)

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=80945818; Inscription: "Wife of L.T. Hutcheson" and "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on... they will rest from their labor" (Revelation 14:13)

Died:
"Slow fever"; remembered by her daughter Edith as Typhoid fever