In my quest to figure out whether the Howard Hutchinson who drowned in the Missouri River is a son of Albert Hutchinson and thus a brother to my great-grandmother, Winnie Hutchinson Currey, I thought I might try finding him living with Albert’s second wife, Eliza.
Since she was married six times Eliza goes by many names.
- Honor L. Vanvolkenberg married Henry H Nolen in March of 1885 in Doniphan County, Kansas
- Miss Eliza Valkenburg married Albert Hutchinson in 1893 in Buchanan County, Missouri. Albert died in 1896 leaving Eliza a widow with a young son, Elmer. Elmer was born in 1895.
- Honor E Hutchins married Samuel King in November 1898 in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri
- Eliza Nolan married John McColgin in Aug 1900 in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri
- Mrs Eliza McColgin married Oceola Phay in May 1906 in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri
- Osceola Phay sought to break marital ties with Eliza Phay in the fall of 1923 as reported in the St. Joseph newspaper
- According to the Find a Grave site for Honore Eliza Van Volkenburg Schleininger, she married Daniel Schleininger in 1930.
These many names make finding Eliza difficult. I did find one newspaper article that places a Howard Hutchinson in the home of an Eliza King.
More Trouble in Bean Row
Mrs. Eliza King, a White Woman
Injured by a Colored AmazonHostilities were again resumed in Bean Row yesterday afternoon and a small sized rce war progressed for a short time. A black Amazon named Judy Shepherd, aged 19 years, appeared to be the instigator of the trouble and seriously injured Eliza King, a white woman, by hitting her above the right eye with a brick, producing an ugly but not dangerous scalp wound.
The trouble occurred about 5 o’clock. It appears the Shepherd woman entered the home of Mrs. King, who is said to be a hardworking woman, and began to use abusive and obscene language. She was ordered from the house No. 3 Bean Row, by the white woman. As she left the door she picked up a brick and threw it with good aim. She threw several more missiles and aroused the neighborhood. Then a small riot broke loose, in which several colored women took part but no one, except Mrs. King, was seriously hurt.
The injured woman was taken to a house on Buchanan avenue by J. E. Patrick and her wound was dressed by City Physician Graham. Later in the evening she and her two children, Howard and Elmer Hutchinson, were conveyed to the city hospital, where she was resting easily last night. She will be able to leave the institution in a few days.
Officers Hodgins and Duncan placed the Shepherd woman under arrest, and it is said a state warrant will be sworn out for her.
“More Trouble in Bean Row,” The St. Joseph Herald (St. Joseph, Missouri), 13 October 1899, page 5; digital image, Newspapers.com (www.newspapars.com : viewed online 22 February 2021).
The above article is for an Eliza King, which is Eliza’s married name in 1899. It also places both a Howard and an Elmer Hutchinson in the household. There is a Samuel R. King living at 3 Bean Row in the Combe Printing Company’s 1900 directory for St. Joseph. Unfortunately, it appeared that wives were not listed in this particular directory.
An earlier directory listed the inhabitants of Bean Row. I was able to use that list to locate one of those inhabitants in the 1900 census. This allowed me to verify that neither Eliza nor any of her family members were listed as an occupant of any house on Bean Row.
The above article is the only document showing a tie between a Howard Hutchinson and any member of Albert Hutchinson’s family. This supports that there was a Hutchinson son named Howard. Unfortunately, it does not help prove that the Howard Hutchinson who drowned is the same person as the Howard Hutchinson mentioned in this article.
Thus, there is more digging to do.