CPL 23rd Alabama Infantry
Son of Ivy Nicholas and Nancy Austin Hutto.
aka Alonzo
husband of Emma Lyle
father to David and Herman
Lon and his wife Emma, owned a few acres of land in Patton Chapel, a rural community near Lincoln AL. One of the main sources of cash income for the family came from making charcoal. Lon would harvest trees off his land with the help of his 2 sons, David and Herman. They would pile sections of wood in a large house-like stack, set it on fire, cover it with dirt to make it burn slowly and this process produced charcoal. They broke it up into smaller pieces, loaded it onto a horse drawn wagon and sold it to housewives in Talladega. Heavy metal irons were heated on top of buckets of charcoal and used to iron clothes, sheets and other laundry. Lon netted 10 cents a bucket.
(info taken from the book Our Sumatonga by David Hutto Jr, grandson of Lon and Emma)
I still can't read his year of birth, next time I visit the cemetery I will inspect better.
Son of Ivy Nicholas and Nancy Austin Hutto.
aka Alonzo
husband of Emma Lyle
father to David and Herman
Lon and his wife Emma, owned a few acres of land in Patton Chapel, a rural community near Lincoln AL. One of the main sources of cash income for the family came from making charcoal. Lon would harvest trees off his land with the help of his 2 sons, David and Herman. They would pile sections of wood in a large house-like stack, set it on fire, cover it with dirt to make it burn slowly and this process produced charcoal. They broke it up into smaller pieces, loaded it onto a horse drawn wagon and sold it to housewives in Talladega. Heavy metal irons were heated on top of buckets of charcoal and used to iron clothes, sheets and other laundry. Lon netted 10 cents a bucket.
(info taken from the book Our Sumatonga by David Hutto Jr, grandson of Lon and Emma)
I still can't read his year of birth, next time I visit the cemetery I will inspect better.
CPL 23rd Alabama Infantry
Son of Ivy Nicholas and Nancy Austin Hutto.
aka Alonzo
husband of Emma Lyle
father to David and Herman
Lon and his wife Emma, owned a few acres of land in Patton Chapel, a rural community near Lincoln AL. One of the main sources of cash income for the family came from making charcoal. Lon would harvest trees off his land with the help of his 2 sons, David and Herman. They would pile sections of wood in a large house-like stack, set it on fire, cover it with dirt to make it burn slowly and this process produced charcoal. They broke it up into smaller pieces, loaded it onto a horse drawn wagon and sold it to housewives in Talladega. Heavy metal irons were heated on top of buckets of charcoal and used to iron clothes, sheets and other laundry. Lon netted 10 cents a bucket.
(info taken from the book Our Sumatonga by David Hutto Jr, grandson of Lon and Emma)
I still can't read his year of birth, next time I visit the cemetery I will inspect better.
Son of Ivy Nicholas and Nancy Austin Hutto.
aka Alonzo
husband of Emma Lyle
father to David and Herman
Lon and his wife Emma, owned a few acres of land in Patton Chapel, a rural community near Lincoln AL. One of the main sources of cash income for the family came from making charcoal. Lon would harvest trees off his land with the help of his 2 sons, David and Herman. They would pile sections of wood in a large house-like stack, set it on fire, cover it with dirt to make it burn slowly and this process produced charcoal. They broke it up into smaller pieces, loaded it onto a horse drawn wagon and sold it to housewives in Talladega. Heavy metal irons were heated on top of buckets of charcoal and used to iron clothes, sheets and other laundry. Lon netted 10 cents a bucket.
(info taken from the book Our Sumatonga by David Hutto Jr, grandson of Lon and Emma)
I still can't read his year of birth, next time I visit the cemetery I will inspect better.
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Alabama CPT 23 Inf
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