Catherine Eliza Hatton

Catherine Elizs Callister

   * Born: 10 Feb 1850, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

   * Marriage: William Eber Hatton on 23 Feb 1869 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

   * Died: 5 Feb 1948, Fillmore, Millard, Utah at age 97

   * Buried: 8 Feb 1948, Fillmore, Millard, Utah

Ancestral File Number: 3WSG-ZC.

   * William Eber Hatton

   * Thomas Callister Hatton

   * Cathrine Clara Hatton

   * Helen Adelia Hatton

   * Margret Jane Hatton

   * Mary Evelyn Hatton

   * Isabell Hatton

   * Henry Emerson Hatton

   * Daniel Porter Hatton

   * Elmer Clark Hatton

   * Russell Warren Hatton

   * Hazel Hatton

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Message Board Post:

Thank you, I'd like a scan or transcription of the obiturary please.

I've already found this article printed in the Millard County Progress Fillmore, Utah on February 19, 1937

CATHERINE C. HATTON HONORED ON HER 87TH BIRTHDAY

On Tuesday of last week, February 10, Catherine Callister Hatton, well loved resident of Fillmore, was 87 years old. Her children, as they have done for the last several years, all gathered in Salt Lake City, to spend her birthday with her at the home of her son Russell.

Mr. Thomas Hatton, Bishop Henry Hatton, Porter Hatton, and Mrs. Hazel Payne of this city and Mrs. Eva Cummings of Greenwood motored up from here [Fillmore]. Mr. Elmer Hatton came from Ogden and Mrs. Belle Trimble and Russell Hatton of Salt Lake City were present. Mrs. Helen Allen of Pocatello, Idaho, was unable to be there.

Aunt Kate, as she is affectionately called, was born in Salt Lake City in 1850 and lived there until she was ten years old. In 1860 her father Thomas Callister was called to Fillmore to be the bishop of the ward here. For his family he built the large brick house that is now the Olpin Funeral Home. Later, he was made Stake President, so that Mrs. Hatton, as a child, had the privilege of meeting President Brigham Young and other great leaders of the church in her father's house.

At nineteen, she married William E. Hatton. His father had been killed while guarding the old fort here, that used to stand where the Kelly building now stands. Later his mother married Heber C. Kimball and moved with her three small children to Salt Lake City.

Mr. and Mrs. Hatton settled in Fillmore and built a little brick house, that has been remodeled and built on and is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Warner.

Later, they moved to Deseret for a few years, then back to Fillmore and bought the home where Mr. and Mrs. Wilt Payne now live. They had been married fifty-five years when Mr. Hatton died in 1922. No couple has ever thought more of each other, or been happier together.

Since her husband's death, Mrs. Hatton has lived most of the time with her son Russell and his wife in Salt Lake City.

Mrs. Hatton looks and seems much younger than her eighty-seven years. Seven years ago she decided to visit her sisters who lived in Oregon and California. Her son Russell, who works at the O. S. L. Depot in Salt Lake, got a "pass" for her to ride there on the train. When she handed the "pass" to the conductor he looked at it and then looked at her and said. "Why Lady, you can't ride on this pass! This is for a woman 80 years old!"

Mrs. Hatton smiled and said, "But I am eighty years old."

She is the mother of twelve children, nine of whom are living. One, a baby girl, died at the ate of 13 months, the rest she raised to manhood and womanhood. Her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren now number more than one hundred.

Her life has been a beautiful one of simplicity, sincerity and service. In spite of her large family, she always found time to help others. There are few homes in Fillmore where she has not assisted when babies were born, given aid during []ed to lay out and sew for the dead.

She never had nor expected any pay except the love of the people she served. She has been an angel of mercy and kindness. She has a reputation for never saying unkind things about people. A woman never lived who was more loved by all who knew her than Aunt Kate.

(The above tribute to Mrs. Hatton was written by her grand-daughter, Mrs. Nona H. Brown)ished in