"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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LEROY S. HATLEY, fifth son and sixth child of WILLIAM and MARTHA (GILES)
HATLEY, natives of North Carolina, and of Scotch and English extraction, was
born April 7, 1837, in Washington Township, Morgan County, Ind. His parents
came to Indiana from North Carolina, where they were married, and located in
Morgan County, where the father died July 3, 1847. The mother died April
15, 1855. The father entered a farm of 220 acres, which he farmed during
the last few years of his life. Leroy S. Hatley, when nineteen years of
age, went into the employ of J. M. & S. M. MITCHELL, worked on their farm
for three years, and afterward worked for P. M. PARKS until April, 1861. He
then enlisted in the three months' service, in Company K, Seventh Indiana
Infantry, under CAPT. JEFF K. SCOTT. He participated in the battles at
Philippi, Bealington, Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford, and at the expiration
of this term of service he returned to his home. On July 7, 1862, he
enlisted in Company H, Seventieth Indiana Volunteers, under CAPT. A. D.
CUNNING, and participated in the following engagements: Russellville,
Resaca, Marietta and Atlanta. He marched with Sherman to the sea, and took
an active part at Bentonville, and then on with Sherman to Washington.
After the battle at Atlanta, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant, which
position he filled until June 8, 1865, when he received an honorable
discharge at Washington. After the war closed, he returned home, and for
two years farmed, removing then to Illinois, where for two years he was
again engaged in agricultural pursuits, after which he returned to Morgan
County, locating in Martinsville shortly afterward. He owns 129 acres of
excellent farm land in the county, the cultivation of which he superintends.
He was for two years Assessor of Washington Township, also served the same
length of time as Township Trustee. He was Deputy Sheriff for one year, and
for some time City Marshal. March 20, 1872, he married KATE WATKINS,
daughter of JOHN A. WATKINS, a pioneer of Morgan County. Mr. Hatley is a
member of the K. of P., Anniversary Lodge, No. 89, an active Republican, and
he and wife are members of the Christian Church. They have had three
children--OSCAR (deceased), BESSIE and MAUDIE.
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