Person:Joel Hatfield (1)

Greene County, Indiana, 1870 census:^S4

Hatfield, Joel 28 yrs Farm Hand (real estate = $---; personal estate = $300) b. Indiana

      Dolly 24 yrs b. Indiana

      Hiram 2 yrs b. Indiana

Greene County, Indiana, 1880 census:^S5

Hatfield, Joel Head 39 yrs Farmer b. Indiana (parents, b. Tennessee)

      Dollie Wife 36 yrs Keeps House b. Indiana (parents, b. Tennessee)

      Hiram Son 12 yrs Works on Farm b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana)

      Kiah Son 10 yrs b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana)

      Noah Son 6 yrs b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana)

      Cora Dau 4 yrs b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana)

      Jesse Son 1 yr b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana)

Greene County, Indiana, 1900 census:^S6

Hatfield, Joel Head 59 yrs (b. Feb 1841) (marr. 36 yrs) b. Indiana (parents, b. Tennessee) Farmer

      Dolly Wife 55 yrs (b. Aug 1845) (5 children, 5 living) b. Indiana (parents, b. Tennessee)

      Hiram Son 32 yrs (b. Feb 1868) b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana) Day Laborer

      Kiah Son 24[?] yrs (b. Oct 1870) b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana) Carpenter

      Noah Son 26 yrs (b. Aug 1873) b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana) Carpenter

      Cora Dau 24 yrs (b. Aug 1876) b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana)

      Jesse Son 21 yrs (b. Oct 1878) b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana) Farm Laborer

Greene County, Indiana, 1910 census:^S7

Hatfield, Joel Head 69 yrs (marr. 46 yrs) b. Indiana (parents, b. Tennessee)

      Dollie Wife 64 yrs (7 children, 5 living) b. Indiana (parents, b. Tennessee)

      Kiah Son 39 yrs (single) b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana)

      Cora Dau 34 yrs (single) b. Indiana (parents, b. Indiana)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Greene, Indiana, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432)
   p. 299, house/family 281/281.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Grave marker, Owensburg Cemetery, Owensburg, Greene, Indiana, United States.

   Find a Grave

3.   Greene County, Indiana. The Bloomfield News. (Bloomfield, Indiana)
   p. 5, 8 Aug 1912.

        Joel Hatfield died at his home near Owensburg, Aug. 1, 1912, aged seventy-one years, five months and twenty-three days.
        He was a soldier in the Civil War, having enlisted at Bedford in Company B, Eighteenth Indiana Regiment in 1861. While stationed at Indianapolis his first service was guard duty. An incident of his faithfulness was brought out once when he was on guard duty at the arsenal. Gov. O.P. Morton approached the arsenal, carrying a lighted cigar. He was unknown to young Hatfield at that time and as he approached, the young soldier commanded him to lay aside his cigar. He responded that he was Gov. Morton, but regardless of his official importance, Mr. Hatfield refused to allow the Governor to proceed until he had thrown away the cigar. This act made him much admired by the famous war governor.
        His regiment left Indianapolis for the scene of the war in Missouri the same time Gen. Lyon was killed in the battle at Wilson Creek, Mo. The regiment landed at St. Louis and engaged in all the hard marches and skirmishes in northern Missouri and was in the army of Gen. Fremont when he marched to Springfield, Mo., at which place Fremont was superseded and the army ordered to fall back to Otterville, Mo. At this place the health of the deceased failed and after spending the winter there he was honorably discharged by reason of disability.
        After his return from the war he was married to Miss Dollie Brown. To this happy union were born seven children, two of whom died in infancy. The other five, four sons, Hiram, Kiah, Noah, and Jesse (Hatfield) and one daughter, Mrs. Coral Lamb, with the widow and four brothers and two sisters -- namely Jerry, John, James, and Martin (Hatfield) and Mrs. Nancy Lamb and Martha Jackson, out of his father's family of twelve children -- remain to mourn his death, together with a host of relatives, neighbors and friends.
        Early in life he united with the Baptist church at Owensburg, later changing his membership to the Christian church. He lived a consistent Christian life and died in hope of eternal life, beloved by all who knew him.
        "Farewell soldier, brother, mate, loved citizen and friend, rest here from toil, thy goal is won, in blood of the atoning One; while sweet remembrance of the just shall 'ere cling round thy mortal dust, thy kindly virtues to command."
        The funeral was largely attended. Two of his comrades of Co. B, namely Capt. John D. Alexander, of Owensburg, F.M. Dugger, of Bloomfield, and Col. Vinson V. Williams, of Bedford, with other soldiers, were present, and suggested the data from which the greater part of this biography was written.
        The undersigned made a short talk at the home and cemetery. The burial was at the Owensburg cemetery Saturday noon.
        --- Q. Short.

4.   Greene, Indiana, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M593)
   p. 361, house/family 226/226.
5.   Greene, Indiana, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T9)
   ED 306, p. 170, house/family 30/30.
6.   Greene, Indiana, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T623)
   ED 28, p. 4B, house/family 99/101.
7.   Greene, Indiana, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T624)
   ED 32, p. 1B, house/family 26/27.
8.   Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind: with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days. (Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen, 1908).

   Joel Hatfield
   
   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.