MySource:Scotishmariner/Obit: George L. Hatch

George Hatch, Aged 78, Dead

    George L. Hatch, 78, of the old Parish road, near Perch lake, died this morning at 11:15 in the Mercy hospital where he had been a patient since April 1.
    Mr. Hatch had been in poor health for a number of years and had been a patient in the Buta nursing home, 314 Stone street, now the Cardinal nursing home.  He died on his 78th birthday.
    Surviving are two brothers, Harry Hatch, with whom he lived near the Perch lake road, James W. Hatch, Mannsville; three sisters, Mrs. Fred (Flossie) Webb, Richland, Route 1, Mrs. Ernest (Sarah) Winfield, Mannsville, Mrs. Alice Paice, Syracuse: nieces and nephews.
    Mr. Hatch was born April 15, 1880, in the town of Rodman, son of the late George W. Hatch and Armida Secor Hatch.
    Mr. Hatch had lived most of his life in Rodman and vicinity.  He worked on farms nearly all his life, mostly in the Rodman area.  For years he worked on the Harold Gates farm in the town of Rodman. In recent years he and his brother, Harry Hatch, lived on a farm owned by Arthur Mack, Watertown, Route 4, on the old Parish road, about a mile east of the Watertown-Clayton road.
    Mr. Hatch married Annie Smith of Canada.  She died years ago.