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Pictured here are George Washington Larner, Amelia Ada "Millie" Hutcheon and their sons, Walter Scott Larner and John "Jack" Larner
on the front porch of their Sunnyslope (Wenatchee, Washington) home about 1911.

Millie Hutcheon was the middle daughter (third child) of George Hutcheon (1846-1911) and Jane Gall (1846-1924).  George and Jane came to the U.S. from Scotland in the early 1870's.  George, son of James Hutcheon and Ann Croll, probably arrived here around 1871, got established and then sent for Jane, daughter of William Gall and (probably) Jean Petrie.  They were married in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on June 20, 1874, and had four children there - Annie, James, Millie and William, but William died in infancy before they left Wisconsin for Dayton, Washington in about 1880.  George was a blacksmith and Dayton was one of the boom towns of Washington Territory (Washington later became a state in 1889). George and Jane's youngest child, Myrtle Hutcheon (1882-1905), was born in Dayton in 1882, was a teacher in the county, and died on the last day of 1905 at the age of 23.

George's younger brother John M. Hutcheon (1850-1913, also a blacksmith) had traveled to Dayton from Ogden, Utah with M.R. Brown and his wife, arriving in Dayton around 1875.  John had bought a parcel of land from Jesse Day, the founder of Dayton and sold it to George in 1883, and moved on to various towns in eastern Washington, never marrying and dying in Spokane, Washington in 1913.  John's obituary stated that he had two surviving brothers "back east," - I now know who these brothers were.   James Hutcheon (1843-1926) migrated to New Brunswick, Canada in about 1873, where he lived, unmarried and without issue until his death in 1926.  James played a key role in the settling of "The Scotch Colony" in western New Brunswick (very near the border with Maine) and the church that the Scottish immigrants founded there. Alexander Hutcheon (1852-1913), also migrated to New Brunswick in 1888 on the Allan Lines "Hibernian," with his wife Helen Garvie (also known as "Ellen" or "Nellie") and six children.  Three more children were born in New Brunswick before Ellen died there in 1896.  Alexander and several children crossed over to Aroostook County, Maine, where he and several Hutcheon family members are buried.  Another sister of George, John, James & Alexander was Betsy Hutcheon (1836-1910), who also immigrated from Scotland to New Brunswick with her brother James and married Thomas Cumming (1824-1910 and also a native of Scotland) in New Brunswick, where she and Thomas are buried.

Annie Croall Hutcheon (1875-1966) grew up in Dayton and was in the first graduating class of the Good Samaritan Hospital school of nursing in Portland, Oregon in about 1896.  She married Hamilton E. Brooke of Portland, Oregon at the home of her parents in 1901.  Hamilton was descended from one of the first families of Portland, inherited a fair sum of money from his father, was employed with Honeyman Hardware, and died in 1907.  They had no children.  Annie married Thomas Denmilne Honeyman, president of Honeyman Hardware in 1911 in Dayton, Washington and lived in Portland until her death in 1966.  My mother was named for Annie and Annie helped pay my mother's way through college.  Annie, and both her husbands and their families are buried in Riverview Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.

James Gall Hutcheon (1876-1946), lived in Dayton from 1880 until his death in 1946.  James never married, was a gardener, and was active in the Free Masons organization.  After his father George died (1911), his mother Jane moved in with him until her death in 1924.  George and Jane never left a will, so James filed for probate on the estate in 1924, which was ultimately divided three ways between him, Annie and Millie.  James, his parents, his sister Myrtle and George's brother John are all buried in Dayton Cemetery.

Amelia Ada "Millie" Hutcheon (1877-1938), my great-grandmother, grew up in Dayton and attended business school in Portland, Oregon where she met and married George Washington Larner (1863-1928) on Feb. 1, 1896 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church (now called Parish of St. Mark, The Anglican Church in America).  George was with U.S. Customs and Immigration in northern Washington, Portland and Astoria, Oregon, until 1907, when he retired from this and moved his family to Seattle until 1911. He bought an apple orchard property in Sunnyslope (just over the ridge from Wenatchee, Washington) and lived there until his death in 1928.  Their son Walter Scott Larner (1899-1946) - my grandfather - was born in Marcus, Washington, near the Canada/US border and another son, John "Jack" Larner (1902-1966) was born in Portland, Oregon in 1902. George & Millie (Hutcheon) Larner, their sons, Walter and Jack Larner and Walter's wife, Ellla Faye (Asbury) Larner (1902-1989) - my grandmother - are all buried in Wenatchee Cemetery, Wenatchee, Washington.

Pedigree Chart of George Hutcheon
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Hutcheon & Honeyman Headstone Photos
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