The Hatter Tree Samuel Hatter, who was captured by the Indians during the War of 1812, was forced to run the dreaded "Gauntlet" with his brothers, Richard N. (Dick), Silvanus, John, William, and a sister, Mary, came into Casey County from Jessamine where Sam had traded a large government farm for a rifle. Samuel married pretty Sally Wright Stokes (children: Ava who married Samuel Coleman; Sally who married Tolliver Jeffries; Pauline who married a Walls; and Wm. Green who married Judith Ann Coleman) To William and judith were born Samuel who married Mollie Vest (children: Sam who married Mattie Roberts, and Lucy who married John Roy); Hardin married Velle Dockery (children: Clara who married Noble Wesley; Claude married Tressie Lay; Roscoe married Ethel Taylor; Coleman married Ruby Gilpin; and Myrtle married Geo. P. Garner); Wm. Sylvanus married Sarah Bolin and Clare Lawhorn; Sally married John Tilford; Fountain married Angaline Black (children: Wauda who married Jason Coffey, and Jessie who married A.R. Anderson); Sarilla, Pauline Elizabeth (Bettie) did not marry and Avarilla married Will Martin; Martha Leake married Mack Vest. Another wing begins with Richard N. (Nick) who married Plina Wall, to which union were born John S. who married Betsey Frederick (children: Morgie, Sinai, Mitchell, Dick, Burnetta, Hattie, and Emma); Walton (Watt) married Eliza Patterson and Mary Belle Black (children: Mack, Hermie, John L., Eva, Laura, Wm. T.); Sam W. married Nancy Statham; William married Nancy Geneeni, Hannah King, and Nancy Anderson (children: Columbus who married Elizabeth Tilford; Martha Belle who married Em Luster; Emily who married Hiram Douglas; James Lawrence who married Serene Durham). To Jas. and Serene were born Wm. Pigg, Joe Cephas, Geo. R., James A., Florence, and Wyatt. Wm. Pigg married Malinda Rayborn (child: Ransom); Joe Cephas married Kathleen Elliott (child: Newton Kendall); Geo. R. (Fox) married Susan Douglas (children: Jesse Richard, Liza, Eddie, Ollie, Melvin, Nora, Bettie); James A. married Mary Patterson and Katie Murphy (children: Vida who married Levi Fair; James T., George Mc., Ben F., Mary Lucy, Serene B., Moses, Aaron, Josh). Wyatt married Rhoda Harvey, and Florence was unmarried. Ransom, son of Wm. P. and Malinda, married Rosa Napier (children: Lela Terrill, Anna Belle, Charles, George, Carl, Mitchell, Ben, Fayrene, and Marlene.