My friends - I have just returned home from my two day visit to the Dallas/Ft.Worth area. Today, as promised, we are having another in the JP Vignettes Series. Our subject in this segment is George Neville Cutchin of Calloway County. As is now customary, there will be no data posts per se tomorrow or on the weekend. I may be able to get another 25 page segment from Graves County Order G prepared and if so, I will announce it on the JP and Graves lists. -B One small, additional personal note - I've spent a lot of years tracing down great-uncles and aunts, but the tables were turned at 6 PM today when my niece gave birth to her first child - a girl(and named for my wife) - my first *great* anything. A nice feeling - life replenishes itself and what we do in genealogy gives the new generations, we hope, a better understanding and appreciation of from whence they came. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Jackson Purchase Vignettes # 31 - Calloway County - George Neville Cutchin "Hon. George N[eville] Cutchin, present member of the State Legislature from Calloway County, of which he is a native, was born in 1851. His father, William H[uddleston] Cutchin, was born in North Carolina, removing to Calloway County in early life, where he engaged in general farming, with which he combined the honored and laborious work of pioneer school teacher. He died in this County in 1869. Catherine L[indsey] Martin Cutchin, who is still a resident of Calloway County, Ky., is the mother of our subject. She was born in Kentucky, and is a granddaughter of General William Green of Revolutionary fame. George N. Cutchin is the fifth of a family of nine children born to these parents, and reared on the farm, to which industry he still devotes his attention. He received the benefits of his father's teaching, supplemented by a course of study at the Murray Institute, obtaining thereby a good English education. In August 1883, he was elected by the people of Calloway County to represent them in the lower house of the State legislature, a position he now occupies with acceptance. In 1879[March 5], he married Miss Sallie B[uchanan], daughter of Joel H[awes] and Mary [Sarene Bailey] Curd, and to them have been born three children:Tommie[Lillian Thomas], Ethel G[reene] and Carlisle Cutchin." [Note by BU: George and Sallie Cutchin also had this child: Mary Catherine, born 1895, married Lindsey Holcomb Barclay of Carlisle County] -History of Kentucky Illustrated - Edition 1 Todd/Perrin/Kniffen Louisville: F.A.Battey Publishing Co., 1885 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++