1900 fed census shows name as John b. Jan1865
1900 fed census shows birth as Feb. 1866
Graduate Westminster College and St. Joseph Law School and Command and Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth. He is Senator form the 34th District and Chairman of Labor. In World War I served as citizen soldier. In World War II he rose to the rank of Colonel. He is in the Reserve with permanent rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Graduate Westminster College and St. Joseph Law School and Command and Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth. He is Senator form the 34th District and Chairman of Labor. In World War I served as citizen soldier. In World War II he rose to the rank of Colonel. He is in the Reserve with permanent rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Degree University of Nebraska.
Degree University of Nebraska.
Vestal and Betty became the parents of 10 children. Zachary and Polly had 5 children. They were double blood - double cousins. The relationship between these two families must have been close. When Polly had her fifth child, a girl, she named her Elizabeth, after her mother-in-law, as well as her sister, but she called her Betty. When yound Betty was 6 months old, Polly Jester Hutchins passed away, leaving her husband who had been ill, and her five little children....the oldest one having just turned ten years old.
Because of his ill health, Zachary was advised by his physician to move to a drier climate, so he packed his belongings to begin a journey to IN, planning to take all of his children with him. Because Betty was just 6 months old, and so tiny, Betty and Vestal pleaded with Zachary to leave her with them until he got settled. Ist was decided that this was the best thing to do. So Zachary and his four older children, Alex, Dozier, Marsh, and Mollie moved on to find a new home.
They apparently went through IN where he met and married a young widow woman, Margaret Quick Mathas, widow of Hezekiah Mathas. She had a little daughter, Winnie Kathryn, who died when she was 3 years old.
Zachary and Margaret settled in Cassville, BArry Co., MO, where he took up farming. They were parents of three more children: Margaret Melvina, John Zachary, and Rhoda Jane.
It had been Zachary's intention to return to NC for his baby, Betty, but he was never able to do so. He died in Cassville Nov. 11, 1883.
Young Betty grew up in NC with her Uncle "Pap" Hutchins, who was a Quaker ministesr, and her Aunt Betty. They were good to her and treated her like their own. She loved them dearly and was always grateful for her double blood cousins and their double kindness to her. When Betty was 19 years old she married Edmund Franklin Hiatt. After they had 4 children born to them at Mt. Airy, NC, they were converted to the Mormon Church and moved their little family to Utah, where they settled in Payson, Utah. To them were born 6 more children.
IN 1919 while Betty was reading a Mormon "Relief Society Magazine", she saw a picture of a woman who was President of the "Relief Society" (women's organization) in Joplin, MO. She felt impressed to write to this woman, Mrs. Clara Woodworth, and ask her assistance in locating the remnants of her family. The last she had heard anything about Zachary and her brothers and sister, they were living in MO.
Mrs. Woodworth searched far and wide in her travels and located Betty's half-sister, Rhoda Russell at Webb City, Mo. These sisters began to correspond. Betty was anxious to be reunited with her family, but it wasn't until Sept., 1931, when she was 72 years old, that her daughter, Celia Hiatt Jex, accompanied her on the 1500 mile trip east where they spent 3 weeks visiting the wives and children of her brothers who had already passed away, and with Mollie 74, and Rhoda, 68.
This was one of the happiest days of Betty's life. It was also the beginning of a dream of both Betty and her daughter, Celia, to gather the records of all of the children of Zachary Hutchins and compile them into a "Hutchins History".
According to NC Pension Records, Isham entered service 5 Sep 1862. He died 13 Oct 1863 of disease at Gordonsville, Va. The pension application was first made 3 Jul 1885 by his widow, Elizabeth, when she was 52. She applied again 27 Jun 1901 when she was 68...
According to NC Pension Records, Isham entered service 5 Sep 1862. He died 13 Oct 1863 of disease at Gordonsville, Va. The pension application was first made 3 Jul 1885 by his widow, Elizabeth, when she was 52. She applied again 27 Jun 1901when she was 68...