Samuel H. Luttrell 1814
JACKSON COUNTY PIONEERS
BY PEARL WILCOX
FROM THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
DALLAS, TX 12/2/1976
LUTTRELL SLAVE AND HORSES TAKEN
page 329
The Kansas Redlegs and Union soldiers often came to the Samuel H. and Armilda Dalton Luttrell farm in the Crackerneck neighborhood (39th and Lee’s Summit Road), taking horses, food, and about everything they wanted.Once when he heard the troops were coming, Samuel hid his horses and his slave girl, Julie, in the hazel brush on the south end of his farm (present Adair Park).The soldiers found the horses and Julie and took them to their headquarters at Fort Leavenworth.Luttrell felt he could abandon his horses, but not little Julie.He rushed to their headquarters and managed to get her released and brought home.
The Luttrells knew they were soon to be banished from their home and they dug deep trenches to hide their valuables.Among the most treasured were their feather beds, as these could not be replaced until another flock of geese could be raised.
Samuel H. was a very young man when he came to the frontier in 1830 with his parents, Willis and Sarah Luttrell, who brought their five children from Virginia.The family, undaunted by the rigors of a new land, acquired a government grant for Section 24, west of the present Old Lee’s Summit Road.They also bought a quarter of Section 19 on the east side of the road for $550.Here they built their log home near a fine spring of water.
During the Civil War years the old log house had many notorious visitors.Several of the Luttrell relatives and friends became Quantrill men, who often took refuge in the home.William Quantrill on one occasion came near being caught by the Redlegs while here.The Youngers were distant cousins of the Daltons, so they often came, especially Cole Younger, John E. Koger, a nephew of Samuel Luttrell, in later years came to see his Aunt Armilda Dalton Luttrell. These men took shelter in the old home or slept in the yard to be near their horses.
Armilda Jane Dalton, born June 27, 1831, in Logan County, Kentucky, died in the old log house in 1879, the same year Samuel Died, and both are buried in the Luttrell family cemetery.(They were a great-great uncle and aunt of Carolyn Corder Boyd whose father was John W. Luttrell.Miss Mary Helen Webb, East 39th Street, is a granddaughter.)
The old log home, hallowed by many memories, was given to the Jackson County Historical Society.It has been restored in Missouri Town of 1855 at Lake Jacomo.
Notes & Copy by:Merl & Mitch Luttrell 12/3/1976
The same sort of thing happended to the John W. D. Littrell family near Brunswick, Chariton Co. MO, when the place was raided, everything they owned was stolen and the house burned and one of my great-aunts threw the family Bible out of the window into the mud.When they returned to rebuild, the Bible was the MOST.
Hand written Notes:
Willis Luttrell, m. Sarah (Sally) Vic or Viar, d/o James Viar
James Luttrell, m. Nancy Helms 08/24/1814, d/o Thomas Helm
John Luttrell, m. Sarah Elliott 11/13/1788
Richard Luttrell, m. Susanna Walker 09/17/1787