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Surnames: HATFIELD, GAGEBY, HAMILTON, POINDEXTER, SHERWOOD
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, February 3, 1916,
Volume XXXIX, Number 12, Page 4, Col 3, "Pioneer Hotel Man Dead." [Transcribed
on August 30, 2005 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
Ale HATFIELD, age eighty-six, one of the best known hotel men of southern Indiana, who was
known to the traveling public as Uncle Ale, died at his home in Bedford last Tuesday. He
leaves an immediate family of forty-seven person, including twenty-seven grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
HATFIELD was born in Tennessee and was two years old when his parents moved to Greene
County, Indiana. He attended country schools near Owensburg and afterward taught.
He was in the hotel business in Owensburg and went to Bedford in 1883. He managed the
HATFIELD house at Bedford for twenty-five years, finally turning the business over to his
son, Fred. Mr. HATFIELD was a well-known Mason and an active member of the Christian
church. The widow and the following daughters and sons are living: Mrs. E. W.
POINDEXTER, of Kansas City, Missouri; Mrs. Frank GAGEBY, of Indianapolis; Mrs. William J.
HAMILTON, of Linton; Mrs. Frank T. SHERWOOD and the Misses Viola and Winnie HATFIELD,
Fred E. and Frank D. , of Bedford. The funeral was held at Bedford last Saturday.
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NOTES—RLJ: 1880 US CENSUS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Town of Owensburg, Page 171B, 9 Jun
1880, Dwelling 54, Family 54, Lines 31—41: HATFIELD, Ale (wm, 50, Head, m, Hotel Keeper,
TN, TN, TN.), Christiana (w, F, 44, wife, m, Keeps house, IN, IN, IN), Dora (w, F, 20,
Dau, s, At home, IN, TN, IN), Ida (w, F, 17, Dau, s, School __. IN, TN, IN), Viola (w, f,
15, Dau, s, at Home, IN, TN, IN), Emma (w, f, 12, Dau, s, at home, IN, TN, IN), Fred (w,
m, 10, son, at home, IN, TN, IN), Flora (7, Dau, IN, TN, IN), Frank (w, m, 4, son, IN, TN,
IN), Carrie (w, f, 19, Niece, Asst House Keeper, IN, IN, IN), Minnie (w, f, 17, Niece, s,
at home (IN, IN, IN).
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