From History of Rock County Wis., page 751 CAROLINE HANCHETT, widow, sec. 34; P.O. Beloit; widow of James Henry HANCHETT; born in Madison Co., N.Y., in 1818; the daughter of Joseph and Jane HICKOX. She married, in 1836, in Wayne Co., Mich., J. H. HANCHETT, and lived in Coldwater, Mich., Bristol and South Bend, Ind., before coming to Beloit, in 1840; he bought forty acres of land in Sec. 34, and built a large, handsome stone residence, with barns, etc.; they had ten children, seven are now living. Mr. HANCHETT died Dec. 6, 1865, in the house he built; he was by occupation a contractor, and was the contractor who built the dam across Rock River, at this city, in 1840; he also built a dam and bridge across the St. Joseph River at Bristol, Ind., and a dam over the same river at South Bend, Ind.; also, across Rock River at Dixon and Oregon, Ill.; he built dams and did other public work of immense value. Mrs. H. now occupies the residence on Sec. 34.