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VARS I,TlTmEATBS of Y*lt;E worlHutcherson decided that was enough and that she should not be expected to give up her youijgest who was needed at home.When appeals to draft officials failed to bring results, Mrs., Hutcherson's friends said, “you' can't do anything grandma. You might as well prepare to* give him up,tOO;’*.But Mrs. Hutcherson was not so easily defeated in what she thought was the right an just thing. She wrote to President Woodrow Wilson, stating her case and ! ap* pealing for the exemption of her last son for military service. And it was granted. The Wilson letter is still a prized possession of Burrell Hutcherson.Until three years ago. Mrs. Hutcherson lived alone, tending her house and yard. But she became ill and was hospitalized for a time, and this weakened her so that site was obliged to go to live with her daughter, Airs. Spearman, where she is happy and content, except for “one thing.1'She said, “I can't do what 1 want to do because I'm ndt strong enough.Asked what it is she wants' to do, she replied, “Why go out and raise flowers and . make garden.' But. don't think for a moment that Mrs. Hutcherson is idle. .Before her mother died at 93, she says, her mother- gave her a charge—to make a quilt for each of’the grandchildren to use in their homes. ; When you have 37 -grandchildren : and 11 great grandchildren, that ekn be quite a large lask. She was almost caught up, when some more came along, but she ■ has only three or four more quilts to make now, and she works diligently every day at piecing the print, materials into bright quilt tops.laws cchildn= Dr.-of'sexficialmotheirifertlhas biAn Ex-Slave Well Remembers The Southland in Civil Warthought fun was to ride the sheep on the farm.But that sport left her with a tragic memory of a little- lad to whom it proved fatal.# As he was riding a sheep, it ran under something, causing the boy to strike his head on a wooden bar, • He was unconscious a long time, and when he cable to, had to be fed about by another child. Then he began wasting away, Lucy said, and finally one of the children reported that he had “called and called to the sick child in his bed,, but got-no answer, and the lad was found dead. He had been given no medical attention as far as Lucy can remember.Among her other dark memories is the one that concerns the selling of her mother’s sister to people who “carried her off to Texas, The two women never saw each other again, and the only word Lucy's mo.ther ever had of her relative was that brought by returning slaves or other travelers, who would ’ stop at the farm and say, “Your sister say ‘Howdy.' ”Altho Mrs. Hutcherson didn’t see Gen. U.S. Grant, the northern commander, when he came to the vicinity., a woman in the neighborhood told her how he looked when he arrived with his soldiers from the north, and everyone expected him to be beaten. But, instead, he was victorious.. “Later T travelled the road he went, Mrs. Hutcherson mused, and I saw the names of the Northern soldiers which they had cut in the beechnut trees on'their way to Fort Donaldson.Lucy was about to be turned over to a sister of the master as a slave, when the Yankee soldiers arrived. One of them told her mother, “She belongs to you and she doesn’t have to go.The Northern victory prevented a showdown on the issue, and her parents left the farm where they had been slaves and moved to town. There her father had no difficulty getting employment as a freeman, because Lucy said, “everyone knew that he knew how to work,Should Protect Children Born By Artificial MeansLos Angeles, Feb. 12. (B—-The rights of children born thru; artificial insemination must be -protected by law, Chicago gynecologist Dr. J. P. Greenhill says.He told the seventh annual Obstetrical Assembly of. Southern California yesterday it is regrettable but true that there are noMr.ofhisoledEath-orm-ImmedialclyLucy and her brothers and sisters were placed in a school to which teachers from fhe north were sent to. instructthem. But when her parents moved back. to a farm, Lucy became ill, and was unable to attend school regularly.The lack of formal schooling seems only to have deepend Mrs. Hutcherson's retermination to learn and to give her children an education; Iler children were sent to high school and college and many of her grandchildren hold techincal and professional positions, having followed their grandmother’s motto, “You have to have an education to cope with the coming generation and times.She told one son, who wanted j to quit school, you might as well j have both feet and borh hands j cut off. as not to get schooling.; And tho the lad left home at 18 j and she has not seen him since, ; he wrole her .later, admitting she was right abotit the education, and one of his sons recently visited his grandmother' and revealed to her that he is a physician.Mrs. Hutcherson’s husband, Quintus Hutchcrspn, was a doctor, also. She married him in Tennessee and came to Kansas in 1883,settling in Topeka. She didn't like the crowded “city life, and they soon moved to Lynden, whereDr. Hlucherson became the cor-oner*r and they Jived seven years. Then her husband abandoned ihe medical profession for farming and cattle raising and they moved to western Kansas,Her husband died in 1906. Three of their six children are still living. They are: Mrs. J. L. Spearman, 439 Ark. St.. with whom Mrs. Hutcherson makes her home Thornton Hutcherson, Tulsa. Okla., and Burrell Hutcherson, Larned.The latter’s son, Burrell Hutcherson, 'was tlTe subject of a grim adventure of. his mother’s during the first World War. Already two sons overseas, Mrs.Cary Grant Betsy Drake“ROOM-FOR ONE MORE“The Harlem Globe Trotters1EndsTonightSilver CanyonWED. * TUCKSMOTOR INChrysler—Plymouth Complete One-Stop Service, on All CarePlus: “Candid MikeUpper-Cylinder Lubrication Plus Higher Anti-KnockThe new D-X and D-X Ethyl are itow catalytic cracked for higher a mi-knock! 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Tue, Feb 12, 1952
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