Austin Hatley

    Austin Hatley was born in Chatham County, North Carolina, September 15, 1822, and is the eldest of the family of William and Martha (Bowers) Hatley, natives respectively of North and South Carolina, who moved to this State and county in 1832, where they closed their lives -he in 1847, and she eight years later. They were parents of ten children -Harriet, Jacob, William, James, Leroy, Minerva, Eliza, Polly, Elizabeth A. and Austin.

    Our subject has remained in this county since brought hither by his parents. December 19, 1850, he married Catherine, daughter of Harvey and Susan Williams. In 1869, Mr. Hatley located on is present farm, previous to which, in 1868, his wife died, and afterward he married Sarah Wilson, who died in 1872, whereupon, in 1873, he married Frankie E. Martin. Mr. Hatley has been the parents of fifteen children in all -William H., Martha A. (deceased), Lafayette and three unnamed, by his first; Sarah C. (deceased) and Harriet M. (deceased), by his second, and Mary A., Richard P. (deceased) and Nancy E., by his third wife.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.