Henry Hutchinson

Under The Flag At Home....Henry Hutchinson has last resting place in the home land. Last Sunday Henry Hutchinson was buried with appropriate services and military honors. The services were held in the school park and were attended by a very large concourse of relatives and friends.

Henry Hutchinson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Hutchinson, and was born July 26, 1894, near Jolley, Iowa. In 1913 he began farming on his own account three miles northeast of Lytton and he and his sister Pearl were frequent attendents at the church and S. S. services in Lytton. He entered the military service of his country July 25, 1918 and was sent from Rockwell City to Camp Gordon, Georgia, and assigned to a Replacement Regiment. On August 28th he was transferred to Camp Merrit and a few days later left for overseas service and in a few weeks arrived in England and from there to St. Charles, France where he was in training for the front line. On October 26th with 16 other Iowa boys, he was transferred to Co. I, 316th Infantry of the 79th Division just as the lines were advancing to the front.

On November 11, the day the armistice was signed, his company was advancing to attack Hill No. 378, in the battle of Grand Mountain in the Argonne-Mense offensive. A dense fog was upon them, and when it lifted, they were within fifty yards of the German trenches. There Henry Hutchinson fell, making the supreme sacrifice to preserve civilization from destruction by the Huns. He was buried on Nov. 12th, 1918.

Henry Hutchinson was brought home for burial, arriving in this country August 25th and at Jolley Sept. 24th, 1921. The remains were accompanied by Private O'Connor of Chicago. The funeral was in charge of the Legion Post named in his honor, Hutchinson-Liechty Post, and men in uniform who had served overseas acted as pall bearers. The service was conducted by Rev. A.T. Aller, assisted by Rev. Plummer, pastor of the Methodist Church at Jolley, and the remains were laid to rest in Cedar Cemetery.

Henry Hutchinson was a splendid young man, numbering his friends by his acquaintances. Just before he left for camp he united with the Presbyterian Church of Lytton. It was a deliberate step, taken as an expression of his faith in God and his high regard for the high duties and obligations of life.

He leaves to mourn a dear one, his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Hutchinson, two sisters, Pearl and Fannie, two brothers, Loyd and Frank, besides a number of uncles and cousins residing in this community. Relatives from a distance, who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Knox, Winterset, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Klegg, Earlham, Iowa and Clarence Taylor and Geo., Wood, Kingsley, Iowa.

Contributed by Joyce Brown