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Founder of Hutto, Williamson County, Texas Hutto, Just eastofRound Rock on Tx Hwy.79 , Western Australias named forJamesEmery Hutto, an early pioneer of Texas. The man for whomthetown of Hutto, Te xas, Western Australias named was born toJohnCastleberry and Nancy Holliday Hutto in Greenville,SouthCarolina, on May 8, 1824. In 1830, the family movedtoHuntsville, Madison County, Alabama, wher e his mother diedin1836, when James Emery was twelve years old. After a fewyears,he joined a group of twenty five persons immigrating toTexaswhich arrived January 16, 1847 and settled at Webber's Prairienear Austin. James Emery Hutto was a very capableandindustrious person and immediately became involvedindevelopment of the Central Texas area as well as providingforhimself and the family h e and Margaret Hughes or Alabamahadbegan after their marriage in Texas, and this may indicateshecame to Texas at the same time J. E. did. He had helpedGeorgeGlassock in building the first grist mil l in Georgetownand waspresent when the town was staked off and the firstelection washeld in 1848. Upon his arrival in Texas in 1847 heengaged infarming and stock raising in Travis county. About 1855 he movedto Williamson County, settling near were Hutto hassince beenbuilt. This town having been named in honor of him.There, for20 years, between 1855 and 1875, he was one of thewealthycattle men of this section of the country. He wasappointedpostmaster on June 27, 1877. Texas was an OPEN RANGEthroughthe mid 1870s. Which meant that If you owned 100 acresof Land,I guess you could ru n 10,000 head of cattle. You'd justhad tochase em down and brand em. Possibe J. E.'s sucess as awealthycattleman was related to the open range. I often wonderedhow hewas so successful with the fe w acres that the familyowned inHutto, about 700 acres, I think. Then again I don't haveanyfacts validating the statements he was a wealthycarttleman.Possible as time went by, the writers of these article chose tointerpret J. E. 's experences as such. It wouldbe intresting toreserch the cattleman teory in more depth. Thefact that we haveit that J. E, was a wealthy cattleman between1855-75 l eads usto the following. 1875 coincides with theBarbed Wiring ofTexas. There was the Barbed Wire wars in theearly 80s as aresult of men wiring up the open range although Ihave not readmuch o n how that effected the area around Huttoat the time.Cattle prices in Texas were depressed all throughthe civil warand there were a bunch of cattle running around. Iunderstandthat the Chision Trai l crossed Brushy creek, wherethe Old Townof Shiloh ( and the cemetery) is located, based onwhat I haveread. J. E. and his sons probably just rounded emup. and soldem to the trail drivers as the y passed by. But Idon't know thatfor sure. Anyway it must have been a differentworld...traveling across Texas and not having to open gates tocrossdifferent areas. What a concept Mr. Hutto moved hi s familytoWilliamson County in 1854 and whether by foresight or chanceheselected land which provided the town site for the town ofHuttowhen the I. & .G Railroad passed through his property someyea rslater. He was possibly preceded in the immediate vicinitybyAdam Orgain, a freed slave of the Orgain family who ownedlandnot far removed. Also soon after James E. Hutto settled inthearea, other se ttlers acquired land for cattle raisingandfarming cotton and grains, especially in the area tothesoutheast where the small settlement of Shiloh was inexistence.Early settlers in the area near the t own to ___* whohadconsiderable acreage were Hugh Goodwin, W. H. Farley, Sr. ,andhis bachelor brother F. F. Farley. In 1876, when therailroadcame through the area, Mr. Hutto sold fifty acres of land to theTexas Land Co. of New York for a town site, reservingfive acresof the tract as a gift for the International and GreatNorthernRailroad right-of-way through the town. Mr. Hutto was averysucce ssful operator and a respected civic leader inthecommunity where he was active in church and schoolactivities.When a Post Office was established in 1877, he wasappointedPostmaster. Mr. Hutto and hi s wife, Margaret had afamily of sixsons and three daughters, all of whom, except thelast childMary, reached adulthood in the Hutto community. On May27, 1881,his wife, Margaret, mother of all know n descendants,died andwas buried along side the youngest daughter, Mary M., intheShiloh Cemetery some three miles southeast of the town ofHutto,Texas. After about two years, later, Mr. Hutto, the nfifty sevenyears of age, married Mrs. Nancy Jones. In 1885, hesold hisholdings in cattle, land and home and moved to Wacowhere it isunderstood that the former Mrs. Jones had somerelatives andwher e he planned to go into the Implementbusiness. It is notclear what interest Mr. Hutto had for thenext few years as theWaco City directory of 1830 listed him onlyas a resident at thecorner of Nort h 18th and Barron Streets.The next two years, apartnership of sorts, Western Australiaslisted with a Thomas H.Killingsworth. Then from 1832 through1897, James E. Hutto Sr.,Western Australias liste d as operatingan Agricultural Implementbusiness including carriages, WesternAustraliagons and buggiesat 110 South 8th Street. Mr. Hutto'ssecond wife died February7, 1892, at approximately the sam etime that he started hisImplement business. On May 5, 1894, hemarried again. This timeto Mrs. Helen A. Wilder who outlived himby some two monthsafter his death April 29, 1914, only nine daysshor t of hisninetieth birthday. Her death came on June 27,1914. James E.Hutto Sr., his second wife and third wife, areburied on thesame lot in Oakwood cemetery in Waco, Texas. In1907, James E.Hutto Sr . made an application for a ConfederatePension on thebasis that his health and his age, 83 years,prevented him fromearning an income and that his finances werevery strained. Theapplication for th e pension was signed byJames Saul andSterling Orgain who lived in the Hutto communityand served withhim in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.The pension,however, Western Australias turned d own on thebasis that hiswife had a small acreage in East Waco and it wasnot believedthat he was in dire need. Upon his death, anobituary from aWaco paper was lavish in its remarks regardingMr. Hut to'scharacter, his activities in church and charitiesand thecaliber of his friends in the Waco area. James' familymoved toMadison County, Alabama where he lived until 1847 whenat theage of 23 he mo ved to Texas. J.E. joined the 5th St.Church ofWaco on 3/17/1889 by letter The 1850 Census Travis, TXpage.134, Dwell. 15 lists J.E. Hutto and his wife Margaret (anAbnerScott is also listed in the ho usehold age 24). He islisted as a25 year old farmer born in SC and Margaret is listedas a 20year old born in AL. They are shown as having beenmarriedwithin the year. 1855 Travis County School Censu srecordsreflect that a "Emery Hutto" had 4 children and lived incloseproximity to his former employer George Glascock.ThomasGlascock, a brother of George possible, Western Australiasthetax assesso r of Travis County. J. E. lived in District 5ofTravis County. Although I have not verfied where District 5is,I'm left with the inpression it is close to presentdayGeorgtown, Texas in Northeast Tra vis County. 1860 censusshowsJ.E. and Margaret born in Ala. 1870 Williamson Co., TexasJamesHutto 45, driver, AL Margaret Hutto 37, AL and family1880Census, Williamson, County show Birth Place Fathe r'sBPMother's BP James E. Hutto 56 SC SC SCLu?wife 48 AL Tenn. Tenn. R.B. w/m 22TXSC AL Genettie w/f 18 TX SC AL Henery E.w/m13 T X SC AL C.W. Hutto 25TXSC AL ( This is James 2 or 3 oldest) M. J. 23 Tenn. Tenn.Tenn.( This is Mary Jane Flinn, G Grandmother) Hartey 9/ TXTXTenn. ( My gra ndfather) John Flinn 19 Brother in lawTenn.Tenn. Also listed is ( this might be one of James Son,thename and age are right) James E. Hutto Jr. 28 TX SC AL LenoraB.20 TX Tenn. MS HU TTO, TEXAS. Hutto is ontheMissouri Pacific Railroad at the intersection of StateHighway79 and Farm Road 1660, near Cottonwood Creek seven mileseast ofRound Rock in south central Williamson County .TheInternational-Great Northern Railroad, the first railroadinWilliamson County, reached the site of Hutto in 1876andpurchased five acres of land for Hutto Station from JamesEmoryHutto, a local r ancher. The following year the community,whichsoon changed its name to Hutto, had a railroad depot, apostoffice, a general store, and a lumber business. By 1884Huttohad 200 inhabitants, a school, t hree churches, and fivegins andshipped cotton and grain. A bank and a hotel opened inthe early1890s, and the population reached 700 in 1896, whenHutto wasdescribed as an "important cotton market" b y the TexasStateGazetteer. Many of the inhabitants and the local farmerswereGerman, Danish, or Swedish immigrants, and the town hadaSwedish church in 1896. In the 1890s Hutto had two weeklypapers, the Church Helper and the Hutto Enterprise. Afterreaching apeak population of 900 in 1928, Hutto was hard-hit bythe GreatDepressionqv and the decline of the cotton industry.By 1931 thepopulatio n had fallen to 538. The town wasincorporated in 1940,when it had 579 inhabitants. In the 1960sthe population droppedto 400, and the town had nine businessesin 1970. The communityrevived over the n ext two decades and had842 inhabitants andseventeen businesses in 1988. In 1990 thepopulation was 630.BIblioGRAPHY: Clara Stearns Scarbrough, Landof Good Water: AWilliamson County History (Georgeto wn, Texas:Williamson CountySun Publishers, 1973). Mark Odintz
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