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Elwin West Hatch

Male 1856 - 1921  (65 years)

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  • Name Elwin West Hatch  [1, 2]
    Birth 12 Mar 1856  Hatch Hollow, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Gender Male
    Census 10 Jul 1860  Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Census 5 Jul 1870  Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Occupation 1880  Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    farmer 
    Census 14 Jun 1880  Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Occupation 1910  , Fergus, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    mail carrier 
    • Enumerated in Upper Beaver Creek.
    Census 2 May 1910  Beaver Creek, Fergus, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Occupation 1920  North Side, Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    farmer 
    Census 7 Apr 1920  Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Death 4 Nov 1921  Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Cause: lobar pneumonia and exposure 
    Burial 4 Nov 1921  Greenridge Cemetery, Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Person ID i2292  Bisbee
    Last Modified 21 Dec 2009

    Father Jason Crippen Hatch,   b. 23 Oct 1808, , Herkimer, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Nov 1864, Hatch Hollow Cemetery, Hatch Hollow, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
    Mother Elizabeth King,   b. 16 Oct 1818, Leboeuf Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jun 1884, Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Marriage 20 Jun 1838  [3, 4] 
    Family ID F1218  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elwin West Hatch,   b. 12 Mar 1856, Hatch Hollow, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Nov 1921, Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Marriage 1877  [12] 
    Divorce Yes, date unknown  [12] 
    Children 
    +1. Birdena M. Hatch,   b. Jul 1879, , , Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Gertrude A. Hatch,   b. Sep 1881, , , Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Ralph Elwin Hatch,   b. 5 Apr 1895, , Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Apr 1946, Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
    +4. Ethel Mae Hatch,   b. 15 Sep 1884, Hatch Hollow, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1968, Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
    Photos
    The Hatch Girls - Gertrude, Ethel, Birdena and mother, Eva    		The Hatch Girls - Gertrude, Ethel, Birdena and mother, Eva
    Ethel is Mother and Eva is Grandmother of Lynn Melvin Bisbee (1919-1978)
    Family ID F27  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 12 Mar 1856 - Hatch Hollow, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 10 Jul 1860 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 5 Jul 1870 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - farmer - 1880 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 14 Jun 1880 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - mail carrier - 1910 - , Fergus, Montana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 2 May 1910 - Beaver Creek, Fergus, Montana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - farmer - 1920 - North Side, Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 7 Apr 1920 - Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Cause: lobar pneumonia and exposure - 4 Nov 1921 - Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 4 Nov 1921 - Greenridge Cemetery, Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Elwin West Hatch (1856-1921)    		Elwin West Hatch (1856-1921)
    Father of Ethel Mae Hatch (1844-1968) and
    Father-in-law of Adelbert Melvin Bisbee (1869-1951)

  • Notes 
    • Family lore has it that Elwin went to Alaska in search of gold. By 1910, he was settled on a farm along Beaver Creek in Fergus County, Montana. Two brothers, Wilson and Winfield, and two sisters, Julia and Arvilla, also had property along Beaver Creek. By 1920 his siblings moved to Chelan, Washington. Elwin stayed on in Montana, taking up a farm in Garfield County.

      Elwin lived alone and never remarried. He made several trips by train back to Erie County to visit his children, his last being around 1920 when he presented his son-in-law, Dell Bisbee, with a violin he brought back with him from the Klondike. The family recalls his stories of stringing ropes between his sod-bank house, outhouse and barn, so he would not get lost and freeze to death in the blinding snow storms that are common to the area. Elwin told of how he had trouble sleeping one night, and in the morning awoke to find a rattle snake curled up beside him in bed. It was said that he lived 50 miles from the nearest town and a hundred miles from a railroad. He died shortly after returning to Montana, under what the family believed were mysterious circumstances. In November, 1921, he was found along the side of a road. The circumstances suggest that he had come down with pneumonia and fell off his horse while riding to get help.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 129.

    2. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 22.

    3. [S663] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, comp., Hatch, Jason Crippen: IGI Family Record, (Version 5.0 (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999-2005), ).

    4. [S1497] Samuel P. Bates, Hatch, Edwin W: Family Biography, (Chicago, Warner, Beers & Co., 1884, Amity twp, p 173).

    5. [S587] Hatch, Jason Crippen (I2310): 1860 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M653, roll 1107, enumerated page 22, master page 22, line 13, dwelling 1428, family 73; image accessed 12/30/2008.), 1860.PA.Erie.Amity.22.

    6. [S588] Hatch, Elizabeth King (I2315): 1870 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2003): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M593, roll 1339, enumerated page 4, master page 112(B), line 18, dwelling 32, family 32; image accessed 12/30/2008.), 1870.PA.Erie.Amity.4.

    7. [S2012] Census Population Schedules.

    8. [S2441] Hatch, Elwin W. (I2292): 1880 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T9, roll 1127, enumeration district (ED) 140, enumerated page 16, master page 8, line 11, dwelling 131, family 131; image accessed 12/30/2008.), 1880.PA.Erie.Amity.140.16.

    9. [S590] Hatch, Elwin W. (I2292): 1910 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2006): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T624, roll 81, enumeration district (ED) 124, sheet 1B, page 216B, line 62, dwelling ?, family ?; image accessed 12/30/2008.), 1910.MT.Fergus.Upper Beaver Sch Dst.124.2.

    10. [S591] Hatch, Elwin W. (I2292): 1920 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2005): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication T625, roll 791, enumeration district (ED) 122, sheet 7B, page 57B, line 74, dwelling 197, family 197; image accessed 12/30/2008.), 1920.MT.Garfield.North Side.122.2.

    11. [S688] Hatch, Elwin W: Death Certificate, (Dept. of Public Health and Human Services, 111 North Sanders, PO Box 4210, Helena, MT 59604-4210).

    12. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 23.