Charles HUTCHINSON

  General Notes:

The following list was compiled by Judge Winton A. White and presented to the Beckley Post-Herald newspaper in 1950. The list was published in the 1850 Centennial Edition of the Beckley Post-Herald on 26 Aug. 1950. It is now available in either the "Smith-Riffe" microfilm collection at the Raleigh County Public Library in Beckley, or from the Beckley Register-Herald Archives also located in Beckley, WV.

Judge Riffe was an excellent historian, however, there are known errors in this work, so please check all information against primary sources.

1820 - 1830

HUTCHINSON, Charles - A native of Monroe County, he married Elizabeth Ellison, daughter of the Rev. James Ellison, settling on the headwaters of Sand Lick on Route 3, just above the Shumate place, in 1829. About 1847 he moved to Crab Orchard and a few years before the Civil War moved to the Lester community, where he lived until his death some years after the war. Upon the organization of the Coal Marsh Baptist Church in 1854, he became it's clerk, in which capacity he served for many years. His son, A. J. Hutchinson, was a Confederate soldier and sergeant of Adams' company, and for a long time was a prominent county school teacher, serving as county
superintendent from 1893 to 1895. John Q. Hutchinson is his son. A. J. was an unusually fine singer and was a song leader in camp singing, as well as in the regular religious services and camp revivals.

Charles married Mary Elizabeth ELLISON, daughter of Rev. James ELLISON III and Mary "Polly" CALLAWAY, on 25 Jan 1821 in Monroe Co., VA.⁸¹³ (Mary Elizabeth ELLISON was born on 19 Nov 1802 in VA ¹⁹⁰ and died on 22 Oct 1870 ¹⁹⁰.)