Hiram Harold Hatfield

 You may  ' be looking for Hiram Delbert Hatfield, the son of Hiram H. Hatfield and May Dora Rasey, or Hiram H. Hatfield, the son of Joseph Hatfield and Mary Polly Heather. This article is about Hiram Delbert's great-grandfather. '

Hiram Harold Hatfield (1826-1919) was the eleventh of twelve children born to Reuben Hatfield and Mary Polly Comstock, as well as the brother of Calvin, Betty, Joseph, Elizabeth, Mary, Andrew, Nancy, Stanley, Susan, James, and John. He was also the husband of Nancy Lavina Cox, as well as the father of Andrew, Isaac, George, Hannah, Maryetta, Sarah, Hiram, Herby, Alford, and Charles.

Biography
Hiram was born in 1826 in Tennessee to Reuben and Mary, and he grew up in Tennessee with his parents and siblings. He was only 12 when his older sister, Betty, died. As of 1850, his family lived in Decatur, Iowa. He married Nancy Lavina Cox on August 11, 1853 when he was 26 years old.

They had ten children, including Andrew (b. 1854), Isaac (b. 1856), George (b. 1857), Hannah (b. 1859), Maryetta (b. 1861), Sarah (b. 1863), Hiram Jr. (b. 1867), Herby (b. 1872), Alford (b. 1874), and Charles (b. 1877). However, Herby died in 1873; Hannah also died at age 17 in 1876 due to tuberculosis.

Hiram had to endure nine of his siblings dying within a span of nineteen years, as well as the death of his wife Nancy in 1915. He died on March 8, 1919 in Decatur, Iowa at the age of 92.

Trivia

 * He named a few of his children after his siblings, mother, and himself.