Harriet Barlow Chauncey was born Oct. 12, 1889. She had a yearning for knowledge. In 1910 she went to A. & M. School in Douglas, Georgia. She returned to Clinch County where she taught for several years.  When she applied for a job teaching in Fargo, the principal warned her that the tough boys of the town had run off every teacher they had ever had. Harriet assured the principal that they would not be able to run her off, and she was right. Nobody was tougher than Harriet!

In the 1920's Harriet, her husband John Chauncey, and their three children, Reva, Lois, and Rita, moved to Jacksonville, Florida where their fourth child, Raymond was born. Later they moved to Kingsland along with her brother Needham Barlow and his family.

Harriet (called "Hattie") loved church. She became a Sunday School teacher and taught for many years until she became disabled in 1975. John was ordained a deacon in Kingsland, and he also taught Sunday School for many years. They helped to organize Dunn Memorial Baptist Church in Baxley, and their son Raymond became the first pastor.

Hattie was an astute Bible scholar. She loved to go through the alphabet saying a scripture beginning with each letter. She continued this until the time her memory became bad.

Hattie thought that her "Pa", William Barlow, was the most perfect person in all the world. She often quoted him and could sit for hours talking about him. The only time that she lost a little faith in his perfection was when her mother, Mary Arnold Barlow, had a horrible cancer on her foot. Pa called Dr. Culpepper, probably the only doctor available. The doctor had Bert, Claude, and Waver to hold her mother while he cut out the cancer. Harriet said that she would always hear her mother screaming as the doctor operated on her without anaesthetic, and she did not quite approve of what "Pa" did in calling Dr. Culpepper.

Hattie was a strict disciplinarian. She expected only perfection and somehow her children never made her perfection list.