Hutchings -Will Von
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal 28 June 1895 p 1
Will Von Hutchings, son of Doctor and Mrs. B.F. Hutchings died Saturday evening about 7:30 o'clock at the family residence on South Washington Street. The funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the home. Dr. J.F. Tuttle, Dr. E.B. Thomson and Rev. J.G. Stevens officiating. Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery. It is with feelings of peculiar sadness and regret that The Journal chronicles the demise of this popular and promising young man. The details of his extended and horrible illness are familiar to all here. So long and so manfully did he struggle with his painful ailment that it seemed as though the great law of recompense should finally have crowned him with many years of life and happiness. But it was not so. Will Hutchings was born Sept 25, 1872, and passed the greater portion of his life in this city. He was educated at Wabash College being graduated from that institution in 1893. His college careeer was an unusually brilliant one and in every sphere of college life his influence was felt. He was prominent in college athletics, the class room and in literary work. He was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity joining that order early in his college course. After graduation from Wabash he entered Rush Medical College where he was taken with hip joint disease one year ago last autumn and from that time to his death he suffered terribly but patiently. His illness so pluckily borne was a lesson in itself. He longed to live but yet was prepared to die. Previous to the operation of Thursday week he made a final expression of his hopes and wishes and bade his family and friends farewell. By Dr. Tuttle and Dr. E.B. Thomson he was received as a member of the First Presbyterian Church and expressed a wish that in the event of his death, that the following friends of his act as pall bearers at his funeral: C.B . Kern, Harry Fine, Howard Sidner, Chester Britton, James Wilhite and James B. Johnston. It is hard to reconcile the death of one so young and excellent to the eternal order of things. It is part of the inscrutable mystery and given us to know. But yet, withal, the full life is not always the long one and the memory of high character, high resolve and patient fortitude which Will Hutchings leaves behind is evidence of that round and perfected life which a man's greatest honor and acquirement. -- kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Friday, 28 June 1895
The funeral of Will Hutchings was held on Tuesday at the residence of his father on South Washington Street. Burial was at Oak Hill. Services were conducted by Dr. Tuttle and Rev. E. Thomson.