TENNESSEE STATE RECORDS - BIOGRAPHIES - Jeremiah Hatfield
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Jeremiah Hatfield

Surnames:  Anderson, Spears, Lewis

Locations:  Campbell Co., TN; Virginia; Lawrence Co., IN;
Kentucky, Kansas


Prominent among the worthy representatives of the pioneer 
element of Greene county is the well known gentleman to a 
review of whose life the attention of the reader is now 
invited. For many years he has been a forceful factor in 
the growth and prosperity of Jackson township; in fact, he
is the oldest man in the township save one, John R. Hudson,
who was born here, and as such his name and reputation have
extended beyond the limits of the locality in which so many
years of his life have been spent. This picturesque character,
now in the golden serenity of old age, having passed his 
eighty-second milestone, has the comforts of a cozy home, 
which the industry of his sturdy earlier years won, and he
also has the cheer of his aged and honored companion, the
partner of his life's joys being in her seventy-ninth year.
His father, Emanuel Hatfield, was a mightly hunter, being 
one of the few noted characters in the class with Daniel 
Boone. When he came in 1831 to the vicinity where the town 
of Owensburg, Indiana, now stands, during the fall and winter
of that year, he killed two hundred deer and twenty-seven 
bears. The fame of his unusual skill as a huntsman spread 
far and wide, and he was a terror to the red man. Within a
few months in that year he found time from his hunting to
clear ten acres of timber land. He traded a horse for five 
acres of land, on which was a cabin. He entered adjoining
land until he had four hundred acres. The only object he 
had in buying one fine tract of land was because it had a 
good spring on it, which to this day is called the "Emanuel
Hatfield spring." This land is in Jackson township, where 
he and his wife, Nancy (Anderson) Hatfield, located when 
they came to this state from east Tennessee. Ale Hatfield,
the grandfather of the subject, was a native of Virginia. 
Emanuel Hatfield and wife were the parents of fourteen 
children, ten of whom lived to raise families. Emanuel was
twice married, his first wife having died at the age of 
fifty-two. His second wife was a widow Williams. The father
of our subject lived to the ripe age of eighty-six years. 
He was active both in the Democratic party and the Baptist
church.

Jeremiah Hatfield, who was born in Campbell county, Tennessee,
February 8, 1826, was six years old when he was brought by
his parents to Jackson township, Greene county, Indiana. He
assisted in clearing the land on which they settled and 
attended school until he could read, write and cipher a little,
remaining at home until he was twenty-one years old. He was
married March 28, 1848, to Nancy Spears, who was born in 
Lawrence county, Indiana, where her parents settled after
coming to this state from Kentucky. Four children were born
to Jeremiah Hatfield and wife, namely:  Eliza Jane, widow of
Hanagan Lewis, who lives with her parents; Milton Howard, 
a farmer in Jackson township; Emanuel, Jr., a farmer living
in Kansas; Sherman, a farmer living in Washington township.

The subject, who has always been a farmer, at one time owned
two hundred acres of land, but in his old age he did not care
to be burdened by its management, so he has sold all his land
except twenty-two acres near Owensburg, Indiana, where he now
lives.

Mr. Hatfield is a typical representative of that class of 
loyal citizens who, when the tocsin of war sounded in the
dark days of our country's history, sacrificed the pleasures
and profits of home to defend the flag, having enlisted in
Company H, Thirty-first Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry.
His first engagement was at Fort Donelson under Grant. Later
he was under Sherman and fought at Shiloh, Nashville, Stone
River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout
Mountain, Resaca and Peach Tree Creek, and he saw his last 
service at Atlanta. After faithfully serving as a soldier
for over three years he returned home in September, 1864, and
resumed farming. He receives a pension from the government
in recognition of his services. He and his wife are members of
the Baptist church, in which he served as clerk for some time.
Mr. Hatfield is a Democrat and was a candidate for recorder
of Greene county, but was defeated in the convention by only
one-half a vote. He was assessor of Jackson township four times
for a period of eight years. Mr. Hatfield has found time from
his active life to travel and regale himself by coming in 
contact with the outside world. Both he and his worthy wife
are highly esteemed for their honesty and integrity throughout
the community where they live.


Source:  "Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind. 
with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co.,
Indianapolis, IN, 1908.