Elwin West Hatch

1856 - 1921  (65 years)

• Name	Elwin West Hatch  [1, 2]
  Birth	12 Mar 1856	Hatch Hollow, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Census	10 Jul 1860	Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [5]
  Census	5 Jul 1870	Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [6]
  Occupation	1880	Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [7]
  	farmer
  Census	14 Jun 1880	Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   [8]
  Occupation	1910	, Fergus, Montana, USA   [7]
  	mail carrier
  	Enumerated in Upper Beaver Creek.
  Census	2 May 1910	Beaver Creek, Fergus, Montana, USA   [9]
  Occupation	1920	North Side, Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA   [7]
  	farmer
  Census	7 Apr 1920	Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA   [10]
  Death	4 Nov 1921	Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA   [11]
  	Cause: lobar pneumonia and exposure
  Burial	4 Nov 1921	Greenridge Cemetery, Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA   [11]
  Person ID	I2292	Bisbee
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2009

  
  

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

  
  

  Wife	Eva A. Smith,   b. Jun 1862, , , Pennsylvania, USA bur. Rose Hill Cemetery, Spartansburg, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA
  Marriage	1877  [12]
  Divorce	Yes, date unknown  [12]
  Children	+ 1. Birdena M. Hatch,   b. Jul 1879, , , Pennsylvania, USA d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Gertrude A. Hatch,   b. Sep 1881, , , Pennsylvania, USA d. Yes, date unknown   3. Ralph Elwin Hatch,   b. 5 Apr 1895, , Erie, Pennsylvania, USA d. 11 Apr 1946, Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, USA (Age 51 years) + 4. Ethel Mae Hatch,   b. 15 Sep 1884, Hatch Hollow, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA d. 15 Apr 1968, Union City, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 83 years)
  Photos		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		Birth - 12 Mar 1856 - Hatch Hollow, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Census - 10 Jul 1860 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Census - 5 Jul 1870 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Occupation - farmer - 1880 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Census - 14 Jun 1880 - Amity Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA Occupation - mail carrier - 1910 - , Fergus, Montana, USA Census - 2 May 1910 - Beaver Creek, Fergus, Montana, USA Occupation - farmer - 1920 - North Side, Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Census - 7 Apr 1920 - Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Death - Cause: lobar pneumonia and exposure - 4 Nov 1921 - Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA Burial - 4 Nov 1921 - Greenridge Cemetery, Jordan, Garfield, Montana, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  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

  [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 129. [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 22. [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), ). [S1497] Samuel P. Bates, Hatch, Edwin W: Family Biography, (Chicago, Warner, Beers & Co., 1884, Amity twp, p 173). [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. [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. [S2012] Census Population Schedules. [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. [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. [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. [S688] Hatch, Elwin W: Death Certificate, (Dept. of Public Health and Human Services, 111 North Sanders, PO Box 4210, Helena, MT 59604-4210). [S1225] Margaret Jane Dunnihoo, Two Brothers in the Pennsylvania Triangle, (Erie, Pennsylvania: self published, 1974.), p. 23.