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Hatfield, Jacob (1818-1902)
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History of Ritchie County
by Minnie Kendall Lowther
Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911

Pages 508-509

Jacob Hatfield was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, on May 13,
1818, of Scotch-English parentage. He was the son of Jacob Hatfield,
senior, and his mother's maiden name was Miss Mondell. Both lived
and died in Pennsylvania.

In 1840, he was married to Miss Wilhelmina Everhart, who was also
born in Greene county, on October 26, 1820, and shortly after their
marriage, they came to West Virginia, and settled near Middlebourn
in Tyler county; and from there they came to Cairo in 1852, and took
up their residence on the old homestead, near one mile east of the
town where their son, Jacob, now lives, and where they saw the last
of earth. She, in 1895, and he, on February 9, 1902. Both rest in
the Egypt cemetery, near their old home.

Mr. Hatfield was long prominent in public affairs. He served as
magistrate at the time the magistrates formed the County court; and
was a member of the Board of Supervisors that laid the county off
into districts. He was also a member of the body that organized the
State of West Virginia, he and John P. Harris being the delegates
from this county. He gave the grounds for the Cairo Baptist church
and was one of its chief builders and pillars. He also played a
liberal part in the building of the Central Baptist church at
Goff's.

He was the father of the following named children: Hon. Samuel
Hatfield, ex-State Senator, and Jacob, already mentioned, Cairo: the
late Dr. F. P. of Parkersburg, who also occupied a seat in the
Legislature, from Wood county; Cephas, of Marietta; Abner Hatfield,
and Mrs. Thomas Fordham, Goff's; Mrs. Benjamin Phillips, Rusk; and
Mrs. Madison Lambert, Ellenboro.

Samuel Hatfield is the one member of this family that has taken an
active part in the public affairs of the county. He was born in
Tyler county, in 1842, and with his parents came to this county at
the age of ten years. He married Miss Cinderilla Phillips, and is
the father of two daughters, the late Mrs. Mary (B. F.) Twyman, and
Mrs. Wilhelmina Cokeley, of Cairo. He filled the offices of assessor
and of Commissioner of the County court; and in 1904, was elected as
State Senator from the third Senatorial district; and at the session
of 1907, he served as a member of the following committees: On
County and Municipal corporations; on Militia; on Immigration and
Agriculture; to examine Clerk's offices, and was chairman of the one
on Federal Relations.

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On one side of their tall tombstone 
(in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Cairo) it has:

      Natives of PA
        Married
      Jan. 2, 1840
   Moved to W.Va. 1840

On another side of the tall tombstone:
    Jacob Hatfield
    born May 13, 1818
    died Feb. 9, 1902

On a third side of the tall tombstone:
        Willmene
        wife of
      J. Hatfield
    born Oct. 20, 1820
    died Feb. 17, 1895

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