(Contributed by the Thomas Tolman Family Organization).
Pauline Woodward Hatch
3 Oct 1882 – 29 Dec1969
Daughter of Orin Perry & Marinda Woodward Hatch
Pauline Hatch was born in South Bountiful Woods Cross, Utah, 3 Oct 1882, one mile south of Woods Cross. I lived with my mother and father. I being the fourth child in the family and as time passed, I finally was the fourth child of twelve living children.
We had many, fine trips to the canyon and always had very good times gathering choke cherries and sarvis berries. We had our farm, had a family garden, and our hayfield. We had a strip of pasture land where we pastured our cows and horses in summer. In the pasture there were springs and running streams that run through the pasture. There was watercress growing in the deeper part of the water, we used to gather pans of it to eat. In the spring we gathered violets and Joney Jump Ups. We had many fine outings doing these things, but when the men began passing through the country by the hundreds we had to be very careful and keep watch up and down the rail road. This is the time of Cokes Army. We had many hungry men call at our door for a lunch which we always gave them.
As a little child I had ear ache many times. I remember one very bad spell. I was telling mother of a short time before she passed on. Mother remembered it but said I was so young she was surprised that I could remember. I told her when the bed stood the room it was in and that I walked by the bed and rolled my head on the edge of her bed then she said that was right.
When I was four years old, I and my brother Earl had our photo taken. I can see the way the man had me stand and rest mt hand by a vase of flowers. I thought they looked more like sticks than flowers. I still say they do, as I have the photo. I spent most of my time caring for the children and watching the babies I used to make wreaths of dandelions and interest the children.
In the fall, I gathered pear leaves that changed colors to interest myself and the children. We went to Grand father and Grand mother Hatch’s home they had an orchard and we would ask Grand father if we wished to go to the orchard. When we wanted flowers we asked Grand mother. We always got what we wanted.
We lived a short distance from our church house and our school house so we could always be there. We studied the Book of Mormon, the travels of Lehi and his family in the wilderness that was one of the loveliest Sunday school lessons and the clearest in my mind. Father and Bro. Moroni Moss were my first teachers.
My Primary Presidents were Aunt Evelyn Hatch, Sister Selina Atkinson and cousin Evelyn Benson, and Secretary Aunt Liggy Hatch. O I never will forget the good days, Sister Phebe Hogan then my cousin had me help her sing a song n testimony days.
When I was in school we had our school dances some times at school some times we would have them in Parley Hatches hall we had our good square dances as well as the round dances.
When I was very young Father, Uncle Will Moss and some other brothers gathered the neighbors sheep in a herd and cared for them on the desert or commonly called Skull Valley for the winter months. In the summer they took them out on the Wasatch range. The herders were paid in shares of the sheep and it grew to be a very large company.
Father and Uncle Philander Hatch started a store and it was called the Deseret Livestock store, and as long as they cared for it. It grew to be a very fine business. Father sold out and bought sheep of his own and put his herd on the mountains east of Bountiful. Some years later the sons and sons-in-law wanted to go out in new countries so Father located the place they would go. We all shipped to the Big Horn County, Wyoming.
During the time we were interested in our own business farming and caring for sheep on the mountains east of Bountiful.
We moved nearer the east part of Bountiful. I was then 16 and was keeping company with a young man which I married two and a half years later. We were married in the Salt Lake Temple 13 March 1901. We had two little girls (Marinda and Beatrice) before we went to Wyoming. Father shipped all that the family wanted sent to our new home country. Daddy or Judson L. Tolman and I took our team and wagon, our two babies and Sister Alice started to our new abode. We left Bountiful September 6, traveled 21 days and laid over for 9 days in Yellowstone Park. We finally got a team to take us over the Sylvian Pass and they left us at Pahaska at the east entrance of Park. Bro. George R. Hatch brought a team and we made our way down through Cody, Wyoming and to Byron where our folks were. We were happy to be with our folks again. We had never traveled before. We lost our team and never did find them. We had many experiences on the way out to our new home where we spent 20 years in the Big Horn.
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