When Elizabeth Waters Hatch was born on 14 December 1821, in Chester, Penobscot, Maine, United States, her father, Sylvanus Hatch, was 31 and her mother, Margaret Palmer, was 20. She married John Foster Smith on 13 October 1840, in Chester, Penobscot, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Aroostook, Maine, United States in 1850 and Maysville Town, Aroostook, Maine, United States in 1870. She died on 10 March 1908, in Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Presque Isle, Aroostook, Maine, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1823: Penobscot, Maine, United States
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English: habitational name from Hatch (Bedfordshire, Devon, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire), Hacche in South Molton (Devon), or else a topographic name from residence near a hatch, a gate leading to a forest or sometimes a sluice-gate, from Middle English hacche ‘gate’ (Old English hæcce, Kentish Old English hec(c)). This name has been in Ireland since the 17th century, associated with County Meath and the nearby part of Louth.
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