Living

Notes:

Birth:
Parents: William Herve Perry & Hettie M Pedigo

Buried:
There are double markers for Morris and his mother Hettie in both Fort Hill Cemetery and Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. The Fort Hill Cemetery gravestone states his birthdate as March 7, 1926

Died:
At least that was his last address according to the Social Security Death Index

Morris married Mary "Nancy" Richmond on 26 Nov 1946 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. Mary (daughter of Clarence Lester Richmond, Sr and Edith Kuykendall Hutcheson) was born on 22 Jun 1926 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; died on 28 Apr 2008 in Irvine, Orange County, California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Cause of Death: Congestive Heart Failure
• Military: Feb 1918, Parris Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA; Marines basic training
• Military: Between 17 Feb 1918 and 16 Feb 1922, France & Germany; U.S. Marines active and reserve dury. Most notably the Battle of Somme-Py (Blanc Mont), where he won the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Croix de Guerre
• Military: Between Dec 1918 and Jun 1919, Segendorf, Neuwied, Palatinate; "The Watch On The Rhine", after the armistice
• Occupation: Between 1924 and 1962, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Insurance Broker

Notes:

My grandfather, Clarence Richmond, kept a diary during his time in the U.S. Marines during World War 1 - including his time on the battlefront. He then expanded it into a memoir that tells quite a remarkable story, and has several poignant passages. In 1997, I published it online at http://www.robinrichmond.com/wardiary/

He arrived at the front toward the end of the epic Battle of Belleau Wood, earned the Distinguished Service Cross and other medals at the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge, and participated in the decisive Meuse-Argonne offensive, which culminated a brutal crossing of the Meuse River on the last night of the war.

His diary and other artifacts of his time in the war are on display at the Museum of Five Points in Cleveland, Tennessee.

The memoir is quoted (among other places) in a description of the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge at http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/bm1.htm

The passage from my grandfather's memoir that is, to me, the most poignant and memorable is about a battle on November10, 1918 - the last night of World War 1 - when the 5th Marines were asked to take the East bank of the Meuse River under very heavy fire from the Germans stationed on the hills above the river. (See www.robinrichmond.com/wardiary/diary20.htm ) He reveals the desperation and carnage of the night without hyperbole, and waxes eloquently on the controversy of requiring soldiers to engage in a difficult battle even after the cease-fire was negotiated, but before it went into effect. He also noted dryly that, as he prepared for that battle, "for the millionth time, I agreed with Gen. Sherman about war".

That passage is especially memorable because, in 2012, I went on a remarkable World War 1 - themed tour of Belgium and France that featured the exploits of the U.S. Marines. When I signed up for the tour, I learned that the guide was Mike Hanlon, a WW1 historian who had contacted me at least ten years previously when he first found my grandfather's memoir online. It turned out that he was using the memoir as a primary source for his detailed itinerary. Visiting the Nov 10 crossing site was a key stop on the tour - though none of us (Mike included) knew exactly how to reach the site by road. When we arrived in the vicinity of the crossing, our 16-passenger bus bounced through farm fields and a forest as we search for the crossing site. When we finally saw the river, we got out of the bus for a better look, and I read aloud the words that my grandfather had written about that battle. As we got back on the bus, Mike told me "When I planned this trip, I intended for someone to read that passage to the group, but I had no idea whatsoever that it might be read by Clarence Richmond's grandson."

- Robin Richmond


Buried:
GRid=39692853; portrait in military dress uniform; Very simple in-ground marker in family plot, plus an in-ground military marker with the inscription "Cpl US Marine Corps, World War I"

Clarence married Edith Kuykendall Hutcheson on 18 Jul 1923 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, USA. Edith (daughter of Leander Travis (L.T.) Hutcheson, Sr and Olive Irene Kuykendall) was born on 10 Mar 1898 in Pikeville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA; died on 9 Jul 1996 in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Education: Abt 1918, Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA; Burritt College (Private K-12 school)
• Occupation: Between 1950 and 1963, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; Teacher; Taught grade school after the children were grown

Notes:

My grandmother was very dear to me. I spent several weeks in several summers with my Richmond grandparents in Cleveland, Tennessee. They knew of my love for baseball, and enrolled me in little league at least a couple of times. We'd run up into the Smoky Mountains occasionally, or go down to Rock City or up to Aunt Mattie's home. They took me to a family reunion in Spencer at least once. Granddad also would take me fishing on Tennessee River lakes.

I remember Grandmother as nurturing, and I remember her smile - and I long for the taste of her dill seed bread. She taught grade school, and I learned about the Trail of Tears and other stories of American history from her. In later years, she was an avid bird-watcher and was able to attract many birds to her garden window.

I suppose that her nurturing attitude toward me is sadly ironic, considering that, as a mother, she was so dedicated to the overwhelming care of her physically and mentally disabled son Joe Robin (my namesake, who died at 17) that she was not particularly nurturing to my father and his sisters when they were young.

She carried pain from her younger years throughout her life. She was not able to talk about Joe Robin; I never learned where his name came from. She never got over her anger toward the girl who tripped her 14-year-old sister Clemma, causing a fall from which she died with a ruptured spleen. Nor could she let go of her bitterness toward her step-mother, who was disliked (to put it mildly) by all of her siblings, and who repeatedly threatened to send Edith to an orphan home.

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From James Murphy (her sister Mattie's son-in-law):
Edith Kuykendall Hutcheson married Clarence L. Richmond on July 23, 1923. They had four children. They lived in Cleveland, Tennessee where Clarence had a successful insurance agency. Since Edith was the youngest daughter, she had the youngest husband. Her sisters were all widows. In their retirement years Clarence and Edith would take Mattie, Fannie and Mary on long trips through the west and other parts of the country. They were all big talkers and all would try to tell you about the trips at the same time.
- Transcribed from Jame's journals by Alice Holloman Murphy, James' daughter in law

Buried:
GRid=39692855; In-ground grave marker

Other Events:

• Occupation: Farmer, Carpenter

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=39692857; Very simple in-ground marker

Jacob married Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bacon on 30 Apr 1882 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. Sarah (daughter of Benjamin Franklin Bacon and Mary Ann Trewhitt) was born on 30 Apr 1861 in Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; died on 25 May 1946 in Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery, Cleveland, Bradley County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=39692856; as Elizabeth Bacon Richmond; very simple in-ground marker

Died:
Family records say May 24, but her death certificate clearly says the 25th, at least twice, as does her newspaper obituary

Other Events:

• Probate: 11 Jan 1934, White County, Tennessee, USA; Died intestate; estate administered by W.L. Swallows, his son-in-law

Notes:

Leander Travis Hutcheson Sr. married Alma Freiley in 1910. None of his children approved, or got along well with her - to say the least. My (Robin's) Grandmother, Edith, was 11 at the time, and she told us that her stepmother regularly threatened to send her away to an orphanage. At age 98, Edith still resented her step mother bitterly.

James Murphy (husband of L.T.'s granddaughter Elizabeth Swallows) reports:
None of Leander Travis Sr.'s children should have married "Miss" Alma and as soon as they could they went on their own. After Grandpa died Jan. 16, 1934 she never shared anything from the home with any child. There was one exception: "Miss Alma" after some time married a Mr. Howard and lived on the Sparta-Cookeville highway and then one day in the 1950's Mattie Hutcheson Swallows stopped and asked her to give the family Bible with all the family records to her. She agreed to do so. It was rebound and the broken sheets were laminated.

See also the attached letters written by and about him


Birth:
Some records identify him as "Lee" Hutheson

Buried:
GRid=61645406; Short obit. Small upright stone. Inscription: Married to Olive Kuykendall Sept. 23 1880

Leander married Olive Irene Kuykendall on 23 Sep 1880 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, USA. Olive (daughter of James Edward Kuykendall and Mary Ann (Polly) Matheny) was born on 28 Feb 1860 in Putnam County, Tennessee, USA; died on 13 Sep 1908 in Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA; was buried in Town Cemetery, Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
GRid=80945818; Inscription: "Wife of L.T. Hutcheson" and "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on... they will rest from their labor" (Revelation 14:13)

Died:
"Slow fever"; remembered by her daughter Edith as Typhoid fever