TENNESSEE STATE RECORDS - BIOGRAPHIES - Joel Hatfield
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Joel Hatfield

Related Surnames:  Snider, Brown

Locations: Tennessee

He to whom this sketch is dedicated is a member of one of the
oldest and most honored pioneer families of Greene county, where,
by habits of industry, he had builded a comfortable home in all
that this magic word implies to a man of simple and healthy
tastes.

Joel Hatfield is the son of George and Elizabeth (Snider) Hatfield,
having been born February 8, 1841, on the farm where he now lives.
His parents were natives of Tennessee, who came to Indiana in an
early days. They are described as simple, hard-working people of
fine moral principles and active in church work. The father of the
subject took a very active part in the Republican politics of those
early days and made his influence for good felt in this field. They
were the parents of ten children, seven of whom are now (1908) living.

Joel Hatfield, the subject, labored on his father's farm and attended
the common schools of his neighborhood until he was twenty years old,
when he readily responded to the wave of patriotism that swept over
him when our martyred President called for troops to save the Union,
and this subject enlisted on April 22, 1861, in Company B, Eighteenth
Indiana Volunteer Regiment, for a period of three months, after which
he returned home for a short time, then re-enlisted when it was seen
that the rebellion was growing in power, and later re-enlisted for
three years, or during the war. He served in Missouri in the campaign
against General Price, rendering gallant service as a corporal until
he was unfortunately seized with rheumatism, which rendered it necessary
to discharge him from the service in about a year after his enlistment.
His government now remembers him with a substantial pension. Two brothers
of the subject, Jerry and Jasper, were also in the army.

After his service in the army Mr. Hatfield returned home and resumed
farming, and in 1864 married Dolly Brown, who was born and reared in
Greene county, her parents having migrated to this state from Tennessee
in an early day. To this happy union seven children were born, five of
whom are still living. They are:  Carey, Hiram, Kiah, Noah, Cora and
Jesse. Each of these children had the advantages of an early common school
education. When he was married his only earthly possessions were a horse
and saddle, and now he is the owner of eighty acres of good land on which
is a cozy dwelling and other convenient buildings. He has made all this by
his unaided efforts. Politically he is a Republican and was at one time
supervisor of roads, which office he filled in a most acceptable manner.
The subject is a member of the Christian church at Owensburg, Indiana,
and both he and his wife are not only well known in their community, but
no people in Jackson township are more highly respected for their
uprightness.


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