Ann Louise Hatfield

Ann married Chris Merritt [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mark Hatfield Merritt
2. Jason Hatfield Merritt

Ann married Chris Kellogg [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1930, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; He was recorded while living with his parents.; : 4; Address:
  308 Royal Street
• Census: 1940, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; He was recorded while living with his parents.; : 14; Address:
  Boyd Street
• Graduation: 1943, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; : Neligh High School
• Military: 1943; He enlisted in the Navy. He was a Radar Operator on the Minesweeper USS YMS 380. Their mission was finding and destroying German mines in the English Channel. On D-Day, his Minesweeper took the lead. On the shores of Normandy near Cherbourg, France they destroyed mines helping the invasion effort. He was a radar man on the USS Destroyer Amick in the South Pacific and witnessed the surrender of the Japanese that was held on the Palau Islands in 1945.
• Draft Registration: 29 Apr 1946, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; He registered for the draft.
• Obituary: 29 Jul 2011; John Hatfield, 85, of rural Creston, died Thursday, July 21, 2011, at Greater Regional Hospice Home, Creston, Iowa. Celebration of Life Services will be 11:00 A.M., Friday, July 29, at the family farm located at 2695 330th St., Creston, with Military Honors by Theodore J. Martens VFW Post #1797. Rev. Tom Woodin will officiate. Interment will be 3:00 P.M., Saturday, July 30, at the Laurel Hill Cemetery in Neligh, Nebraska. No visitation is planned. Pearson-Coen-Beaty Family Funeral Service, 809 W. Montgomery St., Creston, is in charge of the arrangements. Memorial contributions may be directed to the charity of your choice. On-line condolences may be left at www.pearsonfuneralhomes.com. John David Hatfield was born September 22, 1925 in Neligh, Nebraska, to Jay D. and Mathilda Volkman Hatfield. John graduated from Neligh High School in 1943. In 1943, John worked at a Mustang Bomber Plant in Los Angeles before enlisting in the Navy. He was a Radar Operator on the Minesweeper USS YMS 380. Their mission was finding and destroying German mines in the English Channel. On D-Day, his Minesweeper took the lead. On the shores of Normandy near Cherbourg, France they destroyed mines helping the invasion effort. He was a radar man on the USS Destroyer Amick in the South Pacific and witnessed the surrender of the Japanese that was held on the Palau Islands in 1945. After the war John attended the State Agricultural and Business College at the University of Nebraska. He married Marion Verneil McNaught on December 23, 1949. They had two daughters...Ann Louise, born in 1950, and, Jane Elizabeth, born in 1952. Marian taught high school in the Orient Macksburg school system. John and Marian farmed in both Adair and Union County, Iowa and in Nebraska. The home farm is located seven miles north of Creston, Iowa. They farmed north of Neligh, Nebraska which was homesteaded in the 1870's by John's grandfather. John sold fertilizer for Farm Fertilizer, Omaha, Nebraska. In 1965, John founded Green Valley Chemical Corporation located three miles north of Creston. He and fellow investors built the anhydrous ammonia plant (which today also manufactures dry ice). John was Secretary of the Board and prime organizer. In 1968, John built his own phosphate fertilizer plant in Soda Springs, Idaho. The plant was known as Soda Springs Phosphate. His affiliations with companies such as El Paso Products, Monsanto, FMC and Kerr McGee made his company successful. In 1990, Soda Springs phosphate converted to producing an all organic phosphate. His fertilizer shipments extended throughout the mainland US, Canada and Hawaii. John enjoyed hunting and fishing. In 1991, John and Marian were given the Richard H. Pough Award for excellence in Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Practices on Private Land. John set aside over 200 acres for wildlife, natural habitat and lakes. Many television programs have been filmed on the Hatfield Lakes. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and other celebrities have fished the lakes on the Hatfield farms. The log cabins on Hatfield Lakes have become a private guest retreat. John flew airplanes..............from the Cessna 140 to a A36 Beechcraft Bonanza. John felt strongly about the future of aviation and supported the Greenfield Aviation Museum. John flew from his runway located on his farm. In March, he flew a 2,000 mile airplane trip to his daughter's home in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. John Hatfield was also a world traveler. His trips included England, France (several trips aboard the Concord), and cruising aboard the Queen Elizabeth II ship. He toured China in 1982 with Idaho Governor John Evans. He attended both the 40th and 50th year World War II celebrations in France. He also traveled to the Southwest Pacific and Palau Island in 1995. He traveled to the North Pole on a Russian Icebreaker ship, and saw the reindeer in Siberia. He visited Germany, the South Pole and Russia. John retraced the areas where his Grandfather, Captain John D. Hatfield fought and been captured (a prisoner in Libby Prison) during the Civil War. He traveled to every State..........many times. He flew from the Aleutian Islands in the Pacific, to the North Pole, and throughout the Canadian Provinces. In 1986, he crashed a Bellanca Scout aircraft in Thompson, Manitoba and broke both of his ankles. During the 1980's, John lived in Peoria, Arizona. John was a member of the Kiwanis Club of Idaho and was a member of A.O.P.A. Aircraft Pilots Association. John contributed to the Neligh Cemetery and the Antelope Historical Museum. Marian Hatfield passed away in 2010. John is survived by his daughters, Ann Merritt Kellogg and husband Chris Kellogg (Denver) and Jane Anchustegui and husband John Anchustegui (Boise); Grandchildren, Mark Hatfield Merritt (Creston), and, Jason Hatfield Merritt (Zihuatanejo, Mexico) and wife, Yolanda Palmer Merritt; and Cousins, Milt and Grace Blatter (Soda Springs, Idaho and Bemidji Minnesota).

Notes:

Name:

John married Marion Verneil McNaught on 23 Dec 1949. Marion died in 2010. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: say 1955; Marian taught high school in the Orient Macksburg school system.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1885, Center, Antelope County, Nebraska; He was recorded while living with his parents.; : 2
• Census: 1900, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; He was recorded while living with his father and step-mother.; : 17
• Draft Registration: 12 Sep 1918, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; He registered for the draft.; : 35
• Census: 1930, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; Address:
  308 Royal Street
• Census: 1940, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; He was a farmer.; : 57; Address:
  Boyd Street
• Draft Registration: 1942, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; He registered for the draft.; : 58

Jay married Mathilda C. Volkman on 7 Jan 1924 in Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa. Mathilda (daughter of Ferdinand August Volkman and Lydia Hanna Goetsch) was born on 13 Dec 1890 in Watertown, Jefferson County, Wisconsin; died on 4 Nov 1958; was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1924, Watertown, Jefferson County, Wisconsin
• Census: 1930, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; : 39; Address:
  308 Royal Street
• Census: 1940, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; : 49; Address:
  Boyd Street

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois; He was recorded while living with his parents.; : 16
• Census: 1860, Saratoga, Marshall County, Illinois; He was living with his parents.; : 26
• Military: 2 Nov 1861 to 22 July 1865; He joined the 53rd Illinois Infantry for three years. He mustered on 28 December 1861 and was assigned to Company H. Commissioned an officer in Company H, Illinois 53rd Infantry Regiment on 3 September 1862. Promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 1 October 1862. Promoted to Full Captain on 28 December 1864. Mustered out on 22 Jul 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. According to his obituary, He was sent to Libby prison with 108 of his comrades and escaped February 9, 1861, by digging a tunnel. After six days and nights of privation, he succeeded in reaching the Union lines at Williamsburgh. He took part in the engagements at Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Hatchie Bridge, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, siege of Atlanta and was with Sherman on the famous march to the sea.
• Census: 1870, Saratoga, Marshall County, Illinois; He was a farmer.; : 35
• History: 2 Sep 1876; He was approved for an invalid pension owning to his war service.
• Census: 1885, Center, Antelope County, Nebraska; : 50
• Residence: Abt 1890, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska
• Census: Jun 1890, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; He is listed on the 1890 Special Schedule listing veterans.
• Married to: 1896; Florence Sanford. She was born 8 February 1858 in Wheaton, Illinois and died 24 November 1941 in Los Angeles, California.
• Census: 1900, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; He was a retired farmer.; : 65
• History: 2 Jun 1900; He applied for a passport.
• Obituary: 10 Jun 1918; "Captain J. D. Hatfield is Dead at Neligh ? Prominent in Nebraska Business and Political Circles for Many Years ? Was One of Famous Band That Tunneled Out of Libby Prison. Captain John D. Hatfield died at his home in this city [Neligh] this afternoon [Sunday, June 9] of an illness of short duration. He was one of the oldest residents and highly respected citizens of Neligh and Antelope County, and during his lifetime was a large land owner. Mr. Hatfield was born July 4, 1834, near Rockville, Indiana. In 1861, he enlisted in the civil war and took part in the engagements at Shiloh, siege of Corinth, Hatchie Bridge, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, siege of Atlanta and was with Sherman on the famous march to the sea. He was sent to Libby prison with 108 of his comrades and escaped February 9, 1861, by digging a tunnel. After six days and nights of privation, he succeeded in reaching the Union lines at Williamsburgh. He received the commission of Captain, December 28, 1864, and his honorable discharge July 29, 1865. Mr. Hatfield has been a resident of Neligh since 1885, served the county as treasurer and was among the first to call for an independent convention of the county in 1889. He was a delegate to the national convention in Omaha in 1892 and a delegate to the first national conference of the labor organizations of America at St. Louis in May, 1889, and also to the conference at Cincinnati in May, 1891. He is survived by his wife and son, who is in Wyoming, and upon word from him waits the funeral and burial services." Omaha World Herald, Omaha, NE, Jun 10, 1918

Notes:

Name:

John married Ellen Mariah "Nellie" Shepardson on 26 Apr 1866 in Lacon, Marshall County, Illinois. Ellen (daughter of Simon Peter Shepardson and Sarah Caroline Trim) was born on 12 Feb 1849 in Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; died on 9 May 1895 in Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska; was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• History: She was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, President of the Woman's Relief Corps, and a member of the Foreign Missionary and Lady's Aid Society of her church.
• Census: 1855, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; She was recorded while living with her parents.; : 6
• Census: 1865, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; She was recorded while living with her widowed father.; : 17
• Census: 1870, Saratoga, Marshall County, Illinois; : 21
• Census: 1885, Center, Antelope County, Nebraska; : 36
• Residence: About 1890, Neligh, Antelope County, Nebraska

Notes:

Married:
"MARRIED In Lacon, April 28th, by Samuel McFadden, Esq., Capt. J.D. HATFIELD, late of the 53d Ill. Inft., and Miss NELLIE SHEPHERDSON, both of Saratoga township. The captain, like others of the rank and file, very gladly exchanges celibacy for blissful matrimony. He doubtless felt as if he was "one that treadeth alone," or in other words, "as a sheep" without a Shepherd (son)" and longed to "enter into life". We congratulate the happy couple, and wish them long life, and a happy and prosperous one."

Marshall County Telegraph Newspaper

Ferdinand married Lydia Hanna Goetsch. Lydia was born in 1856; died in 1937. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]