The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-03-31
z. Y. HATCH DEAD.
Died Suddenly of Heart trouble
Saturday Morning.

settlers of Redwood county, and set
tier of the town of Paxton, before that
township was organized, died sudden
ly of heart failure, at his farm home
on the southeast quarter of section 26,
Paxton, between eight and nine o'clock
last Saturday morning
Mr.. Hatch had not been feeling we'll
for day or two previous to his sud-
den demise, but on the morning of
that day, he arose, and stated to his
daughters that he was in excellent
condition, and that he was ready to
do days work. About eight o'clock
he went to the barn to hitch up a
horse to single buggy with the view
to having his youngest daughter, Miss
Belle Hatch, come to Redwood Falls
to make some purchases. Performing
his task be saw his daughter start off
safely, and then he returned to the
house.
At this time an employee on the
farm was harnessing couple of work
horses in the barn, with the view of
commencing spring work on the farm.
Mr.. Hatch bethought himself of some
instructions he wished to give the en-
ployee, and went to the barn and
made his statement. After doing this
he passed out of the door, apparently
| for the house. A moment later the
employee passed out of the barn door,
only to find Mr.. Hatch lying on the
ground before it. He rushed to the
side of the dying man and raised him
up. Mr.. Hatch attempted to speak,
but could only gurgle, and in few
seconds he was splitting forth blood.
The employee rushed to the house
and called Miss Mary Hatch, and the
two carried the dying man to his bed,
but before they got him there life had
apparently left the body. DR.. Penhall
of Morton was Immediately sum-
moned, and at the same time notice
was sent to Miss Belle Hatch, who
had reached this city before the mes
senger overlook her. She sent out
DR.. Gibson, and the two physicians ar
rived there about the same time. They
pronounced death as being due to a
failure on the part of the heart to per-
form it's customary work.
The funeral was held from the resi-
dence at one o'clock Monday afternoon.
Rev. G.. H. Way of the Methodist
church of this city officiated at the
same, and the services were attended
by large number of the neighbors
and old friends of the deceased. The
pall-bearers we're selected from the
old settlers of Paxton and intimate
friends of Mr.. Hatch. The interment
occurred in the Redwood cemetery,
where the remains of the wife of Mr..
Hatch were placed two or three years
ago.
Genus Young Hatch was born in
Maine in about 1925, and was conse-
quently 73 years old at the time of his
death. His father was shipbuilder
on the coast of the Old Pine Tree
State, and young Hatch worked with
his father at that trade until the gold
fever broke out in California in l849.
Swept away by the almost irresistible
gold feyer of that period young Hatch
found himself digging for gold in the
Eureka State in the latter part of '49,
and the early SOS. He made great
deal of money in this occupation, but
like nearly all of the other people who
went to California when he did, he
spent money lavishly, returning to
Maine with only a small portion of the
wealth he accrued, about three years
after he first set foot in California. He
remained in his native State about
four years, when he again started for
the west, settling in Wheatland, Rice
county, this State, where he lived on a
farm until 1871. Here he met and
married Miss Catherine Smith, sister
of .Wm. Smith of this city, and James
K. Smith of Eureka Springs, Ark,
marrying her just before he left Rice
county. From Rice county he moved
to Redwood county, and settled on his
present comfortable homestead in Pax
ton township.
Paxton township is a part of his
history. This town was part of Red
wood Falls till 1879, when it was or
ganized and named in honor of James
Wilson Paxton, who once owned the
large tract of land known as the Tur-