James Churchwell Luttrell

1813 - 1878  (65 years)

• Name	James Churchwell Luttrell
  Born	2 Mar 1813	Knox County, Tennessee, United States
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Jul 1878	Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States
  Buried	Old Gray Cemetery, Knox County, Tennessee.
  Person ID	I4450	My Family Tree
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	James C. Luttrell,   b. 2 Jun 1777, Amherst County, Virginia, United States ,   d. 21 Oct 1824, Knox County, Tennessee, United States  (Age 47 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Martha Mariah Armstrong,   b. 1783, Knox, Tennessee, United States ,   d. Apr 1863, Knox, Tennessee, United States  (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	27 Oct 1807	Knox, Tennessee, United States
  Family ID	F1491	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 2 Mar 1813 - Knox county, Tennessee, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  James was the third of five men in his direct line named James Churchwell Luttrell; his grandfather, father, son and grandson all bore the same name. He had a second cousin James Churchwell Luttrell (1803-1866) son of William Luttrell (1765-1813), his great-uncle. Another cousin, James C. Luttrell (1830-1901), was the son of his uncle, Robert H. Luttrell. And still another cousin, James C. Luttrell (b 1838), was the son of his uncle, Lewis Luttrell. And these were only the men who lived in or near Knox County, Tennessee. To complicate matters, the name is sometimes misspelled Churchill. It does make researching the family somewhat interesting. James married Eliza Carr Bell on 11 March 1841 in Knox County, Tennessee.[1] To this marriage were born two sons (James C. and Samuel B.) and six daughters, four of whom lived to adulthood (Elizabeth, Martha, Belle, and Mary). One daughter, Fannie A. Luttrell, lived only two days and is listed on her parents gravestone in Old Gray Cemetery. A second daughter, Mamie Luttrell, was born in 1850 and died in 1851. (He did not have a son named John as stated in the Wikipedia article.) James was very active politically after his graduation from East Tennessee College in 1832. He was at one time clerk of the Tennessee Legislature and rode horseback to and from Nashville in company with Andrew Johnson. He was a Colonel in the Knox County Militia. He was a member of the Whig Party when he was first elected mayor in 1854, but aligned himself with the Know Nothings after the collapse of the Whigs. When this party attained enough power in the state legislature, they arranged James' appointment as state Comptroller after his first term as mayor. James was a supporter of the Union during the Civil War as was his son Samuel B. Luttrell. But his household was divided. His son, James C. Luttrell, was a supporter of the Confederacy. James won the 1858 election for mayor of Knoxville and, despite his Union sentiments, he was reelected mayor of the Confederate-occupied Knoxville in 1862. He served until 1868. After the Civil War James joined the Democratic party; not a popular position in Tennessee. He was elected State Senator from Knox County in 1868 and served one two-year term, 1869-1871; the first Democrat who carried Knox County after the war.