This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HATCH, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RRB.2ACE/5973 Message Board Post: Orrin / Orin Hatch was born in Farmersville, Cattaraugus County, New York May 9, 1830. In 1843 the family moved to Illinois, where Orrin was baptized into the Latter-day Saint Church at the age of fourteen years. He enlisted in the Mormon Battalion in Company "C" and marched to California. He was there when gold was discovered in 1848, but due to severe illness, decided to come on to Salt Lake City. Later that same year he went to Council Bluffs to rejoin his family and returned to Utah in 1849. Mr. Hatch settled in Bountiful and although he pioneered Fort Supply, Fort Hall, Carson Valley and in Arizona, his permanent home was in Bountiful. He married Maria THOMPSON in 1856. Orrin Hatch passed away at Woods Cross, Utah September 8, 1906. Added notes; Was the son of Ira Stearns Hatch who also went to Utah married Wealtha Bradford, a daughter of Simeon Bradford and Martha True, who was born at Turner, Oxford, Maine in 1803. Wealtha was a direct descendant of William Bradford, the second Governor of the Plymouth Colony. This couple resided on the Hatch Farmstead at Farmersville, where the following seven children were born: Meltiah, July 15, 1825, Ransom, November 13, 1826, Orin, May 9, 1830, Rhoana, May 19, 1832, Ira, August 5, 1835, Ephraim, November 30, 1837, and Ancel, June 9, 1840. ORIN Bountiful Utah was his home, as it was here that he established his residence when he married Elizabeth Melissa Perry, a daughter of John and Grace Ann Williams Perry, on October 10, 1855. . He married Maria Thompson, May 2, 1856, who accompanied him on his trip to Carson Valley, where their first child William Ira, was born. His first wife was the mother of thirteen children and his second wife bore him eight He died at 2:20 p.m. on Saturday, September 8, 1906 at his residence at Woods Cross, Davis County, Utah, surrounded by most of his large family, now grown to maturity. At the time of his death, he was survived by his two wives, nineteen children, one hundred eleven grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren, and today his posterity is numbered in the hundreds. His children are: Orin Perry, John Edward, Grace Ann Hatch Moss, Amelia Elizabeth Hatch Jackson, Joseph Irvin, James Ernest, Alice Hatch Jackson, Chloe Adelaide Hatch Grant, Ezra Taft, Wilder True, Myra Rhoana Hatch Mann, Algie Lydia Hatch Grant, and Jabez Bradford, children of the first wife, Elizabeth Melissa Perry; and William Ira, Orville, Daniel, David (died in infancy), Walter, Elizabeth, George and Ella Maria (died in infancy of diphtheria), children of Maria Thompson, his second wife. Ira his father was married to 3 more women and you can read HIS story here; http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hatch/ISH.html The Senator has to come into this family somewhere;