A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas. Page: 638
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638 HISTORY OF JOHNSON
son followed clerking in a dry-goods store in
Atlanta, Georgia, and in December, 1866, came
to Alvarado, Johnson county. The first five or
six years he followed merchandising under
the firm name of Hutcheson & Bro., and in
1872 he purchased 200 acres of prairie land,
paying $5 per acre for the unimproved land,
and $25 for the remainder.
He was married in 1866, to Miss Mollie
Luttrell, of Hamilton county, Tennessee, and
a daughter of C. 1). and Abbie (Teener)
Luttrell. The father was one of the early
settlers of Hamilton county, and was one of
its leading farmers and slave owners before
the late war. Mr. and Mrs. Luttrell had
seven children, viz.: James D., a resident of
Harris county, Georgia; John, deceased,
whose family reside in Tennessee; William
H., of Harris county, Georgia; J. G.. deceased,
but his family reside in Alvarado,
Texas; Martha, deceased, was the wife of Dr.
Atchley, of this city; and Mary, wife of our
subject. Mr. and Mrs. Hutcheson have had
four children: William L., attending the
Baylor University at Waco; Abbey, Maggie
and Gertrude, at home. Mrs. Hutcheson is
member of the Baptist Church.
STYANAX M. I)OUGLASS, M. D., is
a son of Dr. James S. Douglass, who
was born in Sumner county, Tennessee,
in 1806, but afterward became a resident of
Osceola, Missouri, where he resided until
1848. He then returned to the State of his
birth, and near where the city of Union nowstands he quietly breathed his last, in 1849.
He was educated in the University of Kentucky
at Lexington, from which institution
he was graduated, and he afterward took a
medical course in the same State. He began
practicing the noble profession of medicine
in 1835, and continued the same until his
death. He was a Whig in politics, and socially
was a Royal Arch Mason, and was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In 1836 le came to Texas with a volunteer
company.
He was a son of Alfred H. Douglass, who
was one the pioneers of Tennessee from Virginia,
and for sixteen years held various offices
in Sumner county. It was a common
saying there that " the election went as the
Douglasses went." By occupation he was a
farmer and stock-raiser, devoting much time
to the raising of fine stock, frequently taking
the premiulnson his animals at the county
and State fairs. HIe was also a slave-owner.
In politics he was a Whig. His wife was a
Miss Scurlock, a native of Virginia, and by
her he became the father of four sons and
one daughter: Thomas C., who now resides in
Waco, Texas, was for a number of years
Judge of Sumner county, Tennessee, and is
now a farmer and stock-raiser by occupation;
Young Elmore, deceased, was a farmer and
stockman of Sumner county, Tennessee; David,
who was known as General David Douglass,
was at one time Mayor of San Francisco
and was a lawyer by profession; the next is
Dr. James S., the father of the subject of
this sketch; and Caroline, who became the
wife of Thomas G. Miller, a farmer and stockHIISTOR Y OFr JOHNSON2
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Lewis Publishing Company. A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth46829/m1/678/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Genealogical Society.