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Thomas R. Hutcherson, merchant and grain dealer, of Rives, Tenn., was born in Henry County, Tenn., on the 23d of March, 1838, and is one of the ten children of Lewis M. and Sarah (Brooks) Hutcherson, who were born in Virginia and North Carolina respectively, and came to Tennessee when young. They resided in Henry County until 1842, then came to Obion County, where the father resided until his death—in January, 1849. The mother resides with our subject, who made his parents’ house his home until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in the Thirty-third Tennessee Infantry, of which he was the captain. When the regiment was reorganized in 1862, he returned home and followed farming until 1871, when he engaged in mercantile pursuits and has continued up to the present time, with the exception of one year, 1883, when he was engaged in the drug trade, in Paris, Tex., with which he is still connected. He deals quite extensively in grain, and is doing well financially. In December, 1875, he married Gussie Manning, of Gibson County, and by her is the father of the following family: Maggie, John P., and Lillian. Mr. Hutcherson owns two farms in Obion County, from one of which he cut, in 1884, a mammoth white oak, which measured twenty-eight feet in circumference at the stump.