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Lewis W. Hutson, merchant and planter, Totten Township, is a native of Dallas County, Ala., where he was born in 1832. His parents, Robert C. and Elizabeth (Hill) Hutson, were of North Carolina and Alabama nativity, respectively. The former went to Tennessee when a boy, and later moved to Alabama, where he was married, subsequently going to Mississippi, when Lewis was about two years old, where they lived some fifteen years. Mrs. Hutson died in 1843. In 1849 Mr. Hutson came with his five children to Arkansas, and settled in this county, where he died in 1864, at the age of fifty-seven. He was married the second time after coming to Arkansas, to Margaret Cummings, becoming the father of six children by his first wife: Susan (deceased), Casander (wife of William Johnson), Parolee, Miller, Leonidas (deceased) and Lewis (the second child), the subject of this sketch. Mr. Hutson’s widow died in 1885, leaving one child, who died when young. Lewis Hutson was seventeen years of age when he located in Arkansas. He was married in 1852, and settled on the place which he now occupies, though he had nothing to start with but plenty of perseverance and industry. These have contributed to his accumulation of about 1,200 acres of land, 150 being under cultivation. Mr. Hutson engaged in the mercantile business in 1886, in which he is still occupied, keeping a general supply store, and enjoying a liberal patronage. His wife was formerly Miss Jane Cummins, a native of Tennessee, who was born in 1832, and who is the mother of four sons: Robert A., Lewis W., James W. and Edley. Mr. and Mrs. Hutson are members of the Missionary Baptist Church. The former belongs to the A. F. & A. M., and holds membership in the E. H. English Lodge No. 237, at Walter Chapel. Mr. Hutson enlisted in the Confederate army, in 1862, and started with Price on his raid through Missouri, but was taken sick and returned home. He took part in the battle of Helena, and held the position of corporal.