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Note: According to the descendants of Henry Green Hatcher he disappeared and was never heard from again. The story goes "His wife, Mary, had gone to a lady's house who was expecting a baby to help her. While there the woman's husband raped her and a female child was conceived. Much later, Henry supposedly went to his son James Jeremiah's house when his first grandchild, Ester Elnora, was born (8/16/1910) and while there he told his son that he and the stepchild "Kate" were leaving together.
Doris Conrad Petty, granddaughter of John Wesley Hatcher, says that she was told by a family member that Henry Green Hatcher spent the night with her grandfather before he and "the other woman" left the area. Thomas Wesley lived near Malone in JacksonCo, FL at that time. There is no information at this time whether "Kate" was the other woman.
The 1880 Census listed Henry Green Hatcher as age 25, wife Mary as 23, and a female daughter, Catherine, as being 12. Based on the census info for Mary, it seems impossible that Kate could be her child. And if Mary was actually 23 in 1880 while Catherine was 12, Mary clearly could not be her mother, nor was she the wife of Henry when she was supposedly "raped."
Then in the 1900 census we find Catherine, age 29 bn FL, listed as a daughter and wife Mary as age 49. It is also here that son Jeremiah's age shows him 8 years older than he was. It is here that Mary's age indicates she was born c1851 and Catherine as born c1871. If this census is correct, Mary could be her mother but if Henry was the father, he fathered Catherine several years before he actually married Mary.
Now finding the 1920 census, it shows Mary living with son, James J, and gives her age as 61 and born c1859.
We now have Mary's age and Catherine's age recorded as follows:
1880 Mary age 23, bn c1857 Catherine age 12, bn c1868
1900 Mary age 49, bn c1851 Catherine age 29, bn c1871
1920 Mary age 61, bn c1859
We now have 2 censuses that indicate Mary couldn't be Catherine's mother and 1 that indicates she could IF the 1900 is actually correct. Logic indicates that Mary was most likely born c1858 and Catherine was born 1868-1871. It seems much more likely that Catherine may have been adopted/raised by Mary and Henry, but whether she was a blood relative of either of them is not known. Henry may have abandoned Mary, taking Catherine with him but it seems unlikely Catherine was Mary's daughter.
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Property Tracts for Henry Green Hatcher, WaltonCo, FL.
Section 33 - T7N R17W SE 12258, purchased Jan 12, 1897.
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