Biography of James M. Hatcher - Conway Co, AR

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Submitted by: Cathy Barnes <bbarnes@cswnet.com>
        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 77

James M. Hatcher, senior member of the firm of Hatcher & Marshall, blacksmiths
and wagon makers, at Ada, was born in Pope County, August 20, 1852. He was
reared in this and Pope Counties, and began learning his present trade in 1878;
the next year he engaged in business for himself, and has continued in that
occupation since. This firm now has a good established trade at Ada, are good
workmen, and their future success is assured. Mr. Hatcher was married July 22,
1877, to Miss Samantha J. Brown, a daughter of George and Catherine (Davis)
Brown; she was born in Conway County, July 25, 1862. This union was the result
of four children, one son and three daughters; one child is dead, and the others
are named Jennie E., Lucy C. and James W. Mr. Hatcher's parents, Charles W. and
Virginia (Davis) Hatcher were natives of Tennessee and Mississippi respectively;
he was born in 1811, and mother in 1828. They were married in Conway County,
Ark., in 1850; they were the parents of eight children, three sons and five
daughters, of which James, the subject of this sketch, is the oldest. Father was
a soldier in the late war, enlisted in the company of Capt. Wilson, and served
in the Third Arkansas Regiment from 1862 to 64, and was in all the battles of
his regiment. After the war he returned home, and re-engaged in farming, which
occupation he followed for the short time till his death in 1865. He and his
excellent wife were both members of the Presbyterian Church. Our subject and his
estimable lady are members of the Presbyterian Church, and politically Mr.
Hatcher is a Democrat.