The following biography was taken from a 2009 article in the Marshall Democrat News.
Anna Garnett Willis came to Saline County with a wagon train of people from Culpepper County, Va., around 1852. She had apparently inherited money from her father.
This home was built some time before the Civil War and was moved across the road to where it sits today when Garnett Hutcherson built a new home. The family history states, "At the age of 16, Anna Garnett Willis married a man named (Robert) Graves and using her money they bought a large amount of land in Missouri. Women could not own property, so it was bought in his name." One of those farms was purchased from Graves' father, William Graves. It is that land that is still in the family today.
Graves traveled back to his home state of Kentucky some time after their marriage and died there. Because of the laws of the day, half of the land they owned went to Graves' family, some apparently went for lawyer's fees and some went to Anna.
Garnett Hutcherson built this home in 1923. It is still in use and serves as the farm headquarters. Around 1860, Anna married Edmond Brown, a Confederate Army captain. She moved with him to the Fairville area in Saline County and had two children. Around 1863, while home on sick leave from the Civil War, a local Union "bushwacker" killed him.
"The legend goes they were actually neighbors," said Robert. "They came and asked him to step outside and shot him." The family never would tell who had shot Brown.
In 1867, Anna married her third husband, William M. Hutcherson, who had also come from Culpepper County, Va., on the 1852 wagon train. He served in a Confederate militia.
They had six children. One died as a baby, apparently from a snakebite. In 1909, Anna died, willing her farms to her children. The children managed and ran the farm together until March 1, 1911, when her son Garnett purchased the land.
Anna Garnett Willis came to Saline County with a wagon train of people from Culpepper County, Va., around 1852. She had apparently inherited money from her father.
This home was built some time before the Civil War and was moved across the road to where it sits today when Garnett Hutcherson built a new home. The family history states, "At the age of 16, Anna Garnett Willis married a man named (Robert) Graves and using her money they bought a large amount of land in Missouri. Women could not own property, so it was bought in his name." One of those farms was purchased from Graves' father, William Graves. It is that land that is still in the family today.
Graves traveled back to his home state of Kentucky some time after their marriage and died there. Because of the laws of the day, half of the land they owned went to Graves' family, some apparently went for lawyer's fees and some went to Anna.
Garnett Hutcherson built this home in 1923. It is still in use and serves as the farm headquarters. Around 1860, Anna married Edmond Brown, a Confederate Army captain. She moved with him to the Fairville area in Saline County and had two children. Around 1863, while home on sick leave from the Civil War, a local Union "bushwacker" killed him.
"The legend goes they were actually neighbors," said Robert. "They came and asked him to step outside and shot him." The family never would tell who had shot Brown.
In 1867, Anna married her third husband, William M. Hutcherson, who had also come from Culpepper County, Va., on the 1852 wagon train. He served in a Confederate militia.
They had six children. One died as a baby, apparently from a snakebite. In 1909, Anna died, willing her farms to her children. The children managed and ran the farm together until March 1, 1911, when her son Garnett purchased the land.
The following biography was taken from a 2009 article in the Marshall Democrat News.
Anna Garnett Willis came to Saline County with a wagon train of people from Culpepper County, Va., around 1852. She had apparently inherited money from her father.
This home was built some time before the Civil War and was moved across the road to where it sits today when Garnett Hutcherson built a new home. The family history states, "At the age of 16, Anna Garnett Willis married a man named (Robert) Graves and using her money they bought a large amount of land in Missouri. Women could not own property, so it was bought in his name." One of those farms was purchased from Graves' father, William Graves. It is that land that is still in the family today.
Graves traveled back to his home state of Kentucky some time after their marriage and died there. Because of the laws of the day, half of the land they owned went to Graves' family, some apparently went for lawyer's fees and some went to Anna.
Garnett Hutcherson built this home in 1923. It is still in use and serves as the farm headquarters. Around 1860, Anna married Edmond Brown, a Confederate Army captain. She moved with him to the Fairville area in Saline County and had two children. Around 1863, while home on sick leave from the Civil War, a local Union "bushwacker" killed him.
"The legend goes they were actually neighbors," said Robert. "They came and asked him to step outside and shot him." The family never would tell who had shot Brown.
In 1867, Anna married her third husband, William M. Hutcherson, who had also come from Culpepper County, Va., on the 1852 wagon train. He served in a Confederate militia.
They had six children. One died as a baby, apparently from a snakebite. In 1909, Anna died, willing her farms to her children. The children managed and ran the farm together until March 1, 1911, when her son Garnett purchased the land.
Anna Garnett Willis came to Saline County with a wagon train of people from Culpepper County, Va., around 1852. She had apparently inherited money from her father.
This home was built some time before the Civil War and was moved across the road to where it sits today when Garnett Hutcherson built a new home. The family history states, "At the age of 16, Anna Garnett Willis married a man named (Robert) Graves and using her money they bought a large amount of land in Missouri. Women could not own property, so it was bought in his name." One of those farms was purchased from Graves' father, William Graves. It is that land that is still in the family today.
Graves traveled back to his home state of Kentucky some time after their marriage and died there. Because of the laws of the day, half of the land they owned went to Graves' family, some apparently went for lawyer's fees and some went to Anna.
Garnett Hutcherson built this home in 1923. It is still in use and serves as the farm headquarters. Around 1860, Anna married Edmond Brown, a Confederate Army captain. She moved with him to the Fairville area in Saline County and had two children. Around 1863, while home on sick leave from the Civil War, a local Union "bushwacker" killed him.
"The legend goes they were actually neighbors," said Robert. "They came and asked him to step outside and shot him." The family never would tell who had shot Brown.
In 1867, Anna married her third husband, William M. Hutcherson, who had also come from Culpepper County, Va., on the 1852 wagon train. He served in a Confederate militia.
They had six children. One died as a baby, apparently from a snakebite. In 1909, Anna died, willing her farms to her children. The children managed and ran the farm together until March 1, 1911, when her son Garnett purchased the land.
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