Volume 13 , Issue 18

The American branch of the Luttrell Family

The American branch of the famous Luttrell family traces its descent from Robert (2) Luttrell, of the Irish line who married his cousin Anne Gormanston, daughter of Viscount Gormanston, and came to American in the early part of the 18th century, and settled in Prince William county, Virginia. He had a large family including three sons: Simon, Thomas, Richard.

Simon's descendants lived in Kentucky where one, Lucien Simon Luttrell died circa 1913. Thomas died while in search of health in Jamaica, where his cousin, Henry Lawes Luttrell (SEE Irish branch of Luttrell family IX), had acquired lands from his mother.

-- I. Robert (2) Luttrell, and his wife Anne Gormanston, daughter of Viscount Gormanston.

__ II. Richard, son of Robert (2) Luttrell, lived in Fauquier county, Virginia, near Price William county. He married Miss Churchil and had a son, Richard.

-- III. Richard (2), son of Richard (1) and his wife (??) (Churchill) Luttrell, was commissioned an ensign from the county of Fauquier by Thomas Jefferson at the time of the American Revolution. This commission was still in the possession of the family. in 1913. He married Frances Hambleton and had a son, Burrell.

-- IV. Burrell, son of Richard (2) and Frances (Hambleton) Luttrell, married Hannah Button, daughter of Harmon Button, ancestor of the late Governor Fishbeck, of Arkansas, and had a son, Richard.

-- V. Richard (3), son of Burrell and Hannah (Button) Luttrell, married Elizabeth Bywaters, of Culpeper county, Virginia. He was a great fox-hunter and always owned a large pack of hounds. His wife died when very young, and being left alone, Richard devoted a great portion of his time to hunting. So much was he known for this favorite sport that he became familiarly known as "Dick Luttrell, the fox hunter."

It was his custom during the hunting season to rise early and rouse the neighbors to join him in the chase. After the day's sport they would return to his house where he was accustomed to dispense the lavish southern hospitality of antebellum times in Virginia. He had a son, Burrell Edmund.

-- VI. Burrell Edmund, son of Richard (3) and Elizabeth (Bywaters) Luttrell, was a soldier during the Civil War, and served a great portion of the time as courier for General J. E. B. Stuart and for General Beauregard. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Strasburg and kept in prison until about the close of the war. He married Mary Ritchie Nelson, daughter of James Richard Nelson, of Culpeper county, Virginia, and there were born to them the following children:

• 1. Capitola, married John S. Hughes, of Rappahannock county, Virginia;
• 2. Richard Edmund, married Ada, daughter of James Browning, of Rappahannock county, Virginia;
• 3. Hugh, married Atlanta, daughter of Albert Singleton, owner of Ivanhoe, the old home of Captain Lewis Marshall in Fauquier county, Virginia;
• 4. Frank, unmarried, lived with his father at the old home the deed for which, signed on parchment in 1762, by Lord Fairfax, was still in the possession of the family in 1913;
• 5. Charles, died unmarried at the age of 24;
• 6. Warren, died a missionary in India;
• 7. Russell, married Edna, daughter of James Clarke, of Ashley, Indiana, and in 1913 had an insurance business in Oklahoma City;
• 8. John A.

-- VII. John A., son of Burrell Edmund and Mary Ritchie (Nelson) Luttrell, was born in eastern Virginia. At the age of fifteen he entered Rappahannock county, Virginia, and took there a two years course. Deciding then to go into a business life he entered in January 1897, the Bryant & Stratton Business College in Baltimore and after finishing the full course there he went to work as a partner to his cousin, George M. Whitescarver, esq., in Grafton, West Virignia, the business being that of general insurance, and under the firm name of G. M. Whitescarver & Company. John A. Luttrell married Virginia, daughter of Judge Kinnaird Snodgrass, and granddaughter of Hon. John F. Snodgrass, who represented the Parkersburg district in congress in 1853 before the separation from Virginia. He had one child named for his mother, Mary Ritchie Nelson, who died in October, 1906, when nine days old. Another child, John Augustine Adams, was born February 12, 1913.

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