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Note: Severyete (Newspaper) Hand dated Sept 14, 1905 Deaths. HATCHER--Monday morning Sept 11, 1905, at his home in this city, Isaiah Hatcher, aged 70 years, 11 months and 25 days, after an illness of some months. Mr Hatcher was born in Jackson county, Ohio, Sept 16, 1834, when a boy he removed with his parents to Missouri where in 1853 he married Miss May Morris; moving to near Lawrence in 1854 and to Greenwood county in the '80's settling on a farm northeast of Severy. Mrs. Hatcher died a few years ago and since then Mr Hatcher has been living with his daughters in Severy. The deceased leaves six children, John and William of Tulsa, Ind. Ter., Robert of Denver, Colo., Isaiah, Mrs. Mary Smith, and Miss Olive of Severy. Funeral services were held at the house by the REv. J. E. Everett, after which the remains were interred at Brown's Chapel east of Severy.
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Excerpts from: 'Woodson County History,' Vol. 1, Family Section F67, Page 161: "HATCHER- WIEGAND FAMILY -- I was born at Severy, Kansas, December 26, 1906. My sister, Luella, my parents and I came to Toronto in 1910. Our home was on North Broad Street. My father was Isaiah (Boy) Hatcher. He was born August 28, 1869 at Clinton, Douglas County, Kansas. His parents, four boys and two girls lived west of Fall River, Kansas. They were early settlers there and the parents are buried in the Brown Cemetery. My father was a cowboy. He worked in the western part of the United States before coming to the Brown Ranch near Fall River.
"My mother, Mabel Goodwin's parents were Ira Francis and Lizzie (Wilson) Goodwin. He was born October 5, 1845 at Lincoln, Tenobscot (Penobscot) County, Maine. Grandma was born August 10, 1852 at Blandensville, Illinois. Grandpa was a Civil War veteran from Wisconsin. He homesteaded in the Ward Community in Greenwood County. He returned to Chillicothe, Missouri to bring his new bride to her Kansas home. Their children were Mabel, Grace and Ira Maxson. They all attended the Ward rural school. My mother went to work at the Brown Ranch and met my father. They were married January 31, 1903. They lived at the ranch for awhile then moved to Severy where Luella and I (Mary) were born. Luella was born January 28, 1909.
"A fond childhood memory is our family driving a team and going to spend some time with my Goodwin grandparents at their farm home. I loved to get into the cement water tank and splash. We also visited Aunt Grace and Uncle Fred LaRue who lived a few miles south of my grandparents.
"After my family came to Toronto, father did masonary work on many buildings, he laid many sidewalks. The new school house was being built and he worked on it. He laid the sidewalks in the front of the school building. My sister Frances was born in Toronto May 13, 1914. My father was ill for over a year and died July 7, 1916.
"My grandparents moved to Toronto about the same time my family did. They bought and remodeled a house on East State Street. While father was ill, my sisters and I spent a lot of time with our grandparents and after his death, my mother and we girls had an apartment in the grandparents home. Mother did housework and sewing to support us. Ira Francis Goodwin died February 22, 1924. Grandma was in invalid for 12 years. She died in 1948.
My mother.......ran a cream station on Main Street and was the supervisor for the Depression sewing room. She worked that we could have nice things. She died Sept. 30, 1977........by Mary (Hatcher) Weigand
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