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Born: 2 December 1798; Charlotte, Vermont
Son of: Jeremiah HATCH and Elizabeth HAIGHT
Married: Aldura Sumner; 3 February 1820; Bristol, Vermont
Died: 25 June 1843; Nauvoo, Illionios

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BY DARYL JAMES
FROM 'JAMES/HATCH ONE MINUTE HISTORIES' (1994)
     Hezakiah Hatch was born Dec. 2, 1798, in Charlotte, Vermont, to Jeremiah Hatch and Elizabeth Haight. Hezakiah was the sixth of nine children.
     He married Aldura Sumner Feb. 3, 1820, in Bristol, Vermont, when he was 21 and she was 16. Over the next 21 years, Hezakiah and Aldura had seven children: John Sumner, Jeremiah, Lorenzo Hill, Abram Chase, Adeline, Elizabeth, and Hezekiah Moroni.
     Hezakiah earned his living as a farmer. Around 1840, when he was 41, missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived in Lincoln and began preaching the Gospel. Fourteen-year-old Lorenzo was the first in the family to accept the message. He shared it with his mother, Aldura, and they both were baptized in February 1840. Through the instrumentation of Elder Pelatiah Brown, Hezakiah also accepted the message and was baptized in the fall of 1840 (about the time Hezekiah Moroni was born).
     Hezakiah shared the Gospel with his parents and siblings, and they all joined the Church except Jeremiah Jr. Soon the Hatches made plans to join the Saints in Nauvoo, Illinois; however, before Hezakiah could sell his farm and move with his family, Aldura died and Hezakiah's oldest son, John, became seriously ill. Hezakiah left John in the care of friends in Lincoln and moved with his remaining children to Nauvoo in 1842. Before the Hatches arrived at their new home, John died as expected of dropsy of the bowels.
     Hezakiah bought a farm six miles from Nauvoo and also a lot near the Temple for a house. He built the house in February 1843 but died from bilious fever a few months later on June 25 at age 44. Before Hezakiah died, Hyrum Smith visited his home and gave him a Patriarchal Blessing. Hezekiah was survived by both his parents and many relatives.
     Sixty-seven years later on his deathbed, Lorenzo Hill Hatch spoke about his father: "I will say to the credit of Hezakiah Hatch, my father, that he never slacked his endeavors after the death of my mother, who died in the town of Lincoln (Vermont) when we were children.
     "He helped in building the Temple up to the time of his death. He bought a farm from the Prophet Joseph, and he got it fenced. He bought a city lot close to the Temple. He expected to live a long time in that vicinity, thinking that the Church would remain in that locality, but his life was cut short."

-- Sources: 1. Jeremiah Hatch and Family History, by Dale Hatch. pps. 42-47; August 30, 1993; Soft Cover Printing; San Juan Capistrano, California. (Copies held by Quola Mae HATCH James, Daryl Heber JAMES and others. 2. Journal of Lorenzo Hill Hatch. (On record at Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah).

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Patriarchal Blessing

GIVEN BY HYRUM SMITH
9 MARCH 1843; NAUVOO, ILLINOIS
     Brother Hezekiah: I lay my hands upon your head in the name of Jesus of Nazareth to bless you and place upon your head by order of the Priesthood the blessings that are your rights according to the faith of your fathers which cometh by faith in these last days and obedience to the requisitions of the everlasting covenant. Therefore you have a right also unto the Priesthood and to be continued in your posterity. You have a right also unto an inheritance the same to be received in due time. You have a right to the fulness of the everlasting covenant in due time. But it is written thou shalt not covet; nevertheless the day of men, together with your days and all flesh, is mine saith God, and every hair is numbered and not one shall fall to the ground without my notice; and thus are all things present before me.
     Thou are Abraham’s seed and have the right to be numbered with and enter into the blessings and promises obtained by your fathers; nevertheless, there is tribulations that await you. Yet there are blessings which you shall realize and the time shall come when the afflictions of the past shall suffice and you shall enter into the blessings of the promised possessions where in you have a right to an inheritance with your fathers and shall receive the fullness of the Holy Priesthood; and shall commit it to the keeping of your generation to generation and also that your name may be written in the acts and Chronicles of your brethren. And you shall be blessed in future with the anointing and with days and years that shall cede honor upon the heads of your posterity. All to be obtained by strict obedience otherwise there remaineth a scourge, together with the seal in the forehead which shall exalt you in Mount Zion with the Hundred and forty and four thousand. These blessings I seal upon your head according to the tenor there of even so. Amen.

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Elizabeth HAIGHT
George Phineous HATCH
Hezekiah HATCH
Jeremiah HATCH Sr.
John HATCH
Lorenzo Hill HATCH
Qualo Mae HATCH (living)

CHILDREN WITH ALDURA SUMNER