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William Sidney "Sid" Hatfield [A3469]
b.1891 15 May - Ransom, Pike Co., KY
d.1921 01 Aug - Welch, McDowell Co., WV
----- Parents -----
Jacob Hatfield [A3451]
Rebecca Crabtree [A3452]
----- Siblings -----
Vandalia Hatfield [A3453]
Nancy Hatfield [A3455]
Laura Hatfield [A3456]
Orrey Hatfield [A3457]
John Melvin Hatfield [A3458]
Harrison Hatfield [A3460]
Chloe Ann Hatfield [A3462]
Arson Hatfield [A3465]
Hafford Hatfield [A3467]
William Sidney "Sid" Hatfield [A3469]
Martha Alice Hatfield [A2985][A3471]
Freeland Hatfield [A3477]
Ura Hatfield [A3479]
Destry Hatfield [A3480]
Henry Hatfield [A3481]
Ireland Hatfield [A3482]
----- Marriages -----
m01. 1920 02 Jun - Huntington, Cabell Co., WV + Jessie Lee Maynard
Name: William S Hatfield
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1900
Event Place: ED 104 Magisterial District 5, Blackberry Precinct, Pike,
Kentucky, United States
Birth Date: May 1891
Birthplace: Kentucky
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Years Married:
Marriage Year (Estimated):
Mother of how many children:
Number of Living Children:
Immigration Year:
Page: 2
Sheet Letter: B
Family Number: 30
Reference ID: 75
GS Film number: 1240548
Digital Folder Number: 004118935
Image Number: 00689
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Jacob Hatfield M 57 Kentucky
Wife Rebecca Hatfield F 43 Virginia
Daughter Chloe Hatfield F 17 Kentucky
Son Orrison Hatfield M 15 Kentucky
Son Herriford Hatfield M 11 Kentucky
Son William S Hatfield M 9 Kentucky
Daughter Martha A Hatfield F 7 Kentucky
Son Freeland Hatfield M 4 Kentucky
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11396-7328-97?cc=1325221&wc=M
MPV-7SY:754770352
"United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M9HP-2ZS : accessed 12 Nov 2013),
William S Hatfield in household of Jacob Hatfield, ED 104 Magisterial
District 5, Blackberry Precinct, Pike, Kentucky, United States; citing
sheet 2B, family 30, NARA microfilm publication T623, FHL microfilm
1240548.
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Name: Sidney Hatfield
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1910
Event Place: Blackberry, Pike, Kentucky, United States
District: 181
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Son
Birth Year (Estimated): 1892
Birthplace: Kentucky
Immigration Year:
Father's Birthplace: Kentucky
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Sheet Number and Letter: 1A
Household ID: 4
Line Number:
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M1283
GS Film number: 1374512
Digital Folder Number: 004329963
Image Number: 00927
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Jacob Hatfield M 68 Kentucky
Wife Rebecca Hatfield F 54 Virginia
Son Orison B Hatfield M 24 Kentucky
Son Hereford Hatfield M 21 Kentucky
Son Sidney Hatfield M 18 Kentucky
Daughter Alice Hatfield F 16 Kentucky
Son Freeland Hatfield M 13 Kentucky
"United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M26B-43N : accessed 12 Nov 2013),
Sidney Hatfield in household of Jacob Hatfield, Blackberry, Pike,
Kentucky, United States; citing sheet , family 4, NARA microfilm
publication T624, FHL microfilm 1374512.
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Name Sidney Hatfield
Event Type Draft Registration
Event Date 1917-1918
Event Place Pike County, Kentucky, United States
Gender Male
Nationality United States
Birth Date 15 May 1891
Birthplace Ransom, Kentucky, United States
Citing this Record
"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database
with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K35B-FBJ : accessed 31 January
2016), Sidney Hatfield, 1917-1918; citing Pike County, Kentucky, United
States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National
Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,653,780.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25076-13634-67?cc=1968530
United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Affiliate Publication Number M1509
Affiliate Publication Title World War I Selective Service System Draft
Registration Cards
GS Film Number 1653780
Digital Folder Number 005150769
Image Number 04841
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Name William S. Hatfield
Birthplace Pike Co., Ky
Spouse's Name Jesse Testament
Spouse's Birth Date 1897
Spouse's Birthplace Pike Co., Ky
Spouse's Age 23
Event Date 02 Jun 1920
Event Place Huntington
Citing this Record
"West Virginia Marriages, 1854-1932," database, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRHB-3QV : accessed 7 August
2015), William S. Hatfield and Jesse Testament, 02 Jun 1920; citing
Huntington, reference 2:3CJ268G; FHL microfilm 559,888.
West Virginia Marriages, 1854-1932
Indexing Project (Batch) Number M73687-3
System Origin West Virginia-VR
GS Film number 0559888
Reference ID 2:3CJ268G
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Name William S. Hatfield
Age (Expanded) 27 years
Birth Year (Estimated) 1893
Birthplace Pike Co., Ky
Spouse's Name Jesse Testament
Spouse's Age (Expanded) 23 years
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1897
Spouse's Birthplace Pike Co., Ky
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 02 Jun 1920
Event Place Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia
Affiliate Repository Type County Records
Citing this Record
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=559888&ImageNumber=1
50
"West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FRFF-6JD : accessed 7 August
2015), William S. Hatfield and Jesse Testament, 02 Jun 1920; citing
Huntington, Cabell, West Virginia, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL
microfilm 559,888.
West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970
GS Film number 559888
Digital Folder Number 4130631
Image Number 150
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Name: Sidney Hatfield
Event Date: 01 Aug 1921
Event Place: Welch, McDowell Co., West Virginia
Gender: Male
Age (Expanded): 28 years 4 months
Birth Date: 1893 [sic s/b 1891]
Birthplace: Ky.
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: Freeland [sic s/b Jake (Jacob)]
Father's Birthplace: Ky/
Mother's Name:
Mother's Birthplace:
Occupation: Constable( Mingo Co.)
Address:
Residence Place:
Cemetery:
Burial Place:
Burial Date:
GS Film number: 801887
Digital Folder Number: 4229105
Image Number: 281
Affiliate Repository Type: County Records
Reference ID: v 3 p 65
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=801887&ImageNumber=2
81
"West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," index, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NMG9-JPD : accessed 12 Nov 2013),
Sidney Hatfield, 01 Aug 1921.
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Name Sidney Hatfield
Event Date 01 Aug 1921
Event Place McDowell, West Virginia
Father's Name Freeland Hatfield [Jake erased overwritten with Freeland]
Mother's Name Nk Nk
Affiliate Repository Type County Records
Citing this Record
"West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," database, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NMH3-GJJ : accessed 31 January
2016), Sidney Hatfield, 01 Aug 1921; citing McDowell, West Virginia,
County Records, 2965, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm
1,952,971.
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=1952971&ImageNumber=
1978
West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999
GS Film number 1952971
Digital Folder Number 4256164
Image Number 1978
Reference ID 2965
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William Sidney "Sid" Hatfield (15 May 1891 or 1893[1] - 1 Aug 1921), was
Police Chief of Matewan, West Virginia during the Battle of Matewan, a
shootout that followed a series of evictions carried out by detectives
from theBaldwin-Felts Detective Agency.[2]
Hatfield was born in Blackberry, Pike, Co., Kentucky, one of twelve
children (of whom nine survived infancy) of Jacob Hatfield (1845 - 1923),
a tenant farmer, and his wife Rebecca Crabtree (b. circa 1856). His
grandfather, Jeremiah Hatfield b. 1804, was a half brother to Valentine
Hatfield (1789 - 1867), grandfather of William Anderson "Devil Anse"
Hatfield, leader of the Hatfield family involved in the famous
Hatfield-McCoy Feud. According to the 1900 Census, two older brothers,
Orison and Hereford, an older sister Chloe, and a younger sister and
brother, Martha Alice and Freeland, were then still living at home with
him and their parents. His eldest sister Vandalia or Vandella was already
married by this time, and an older brother, Melvin, had left home.
As a child, Hatfield worked on his father's farm. He became a miner in
his teens, and then worked as a blacksmith for several years. He received
his nickname, "Smilin' Sid", because of the gold caps on several of his
upper teeth. He seems to have had a reputation for hard living and
fighting, and his appointment in 1919 to the post of Police Chief of
Matewan, by the mayor,Cabell Cornelis Testerman (1882-1920), surprised
some of the more 'respectable' townsfolk.[3] However, he was a staunch
supporter of the United Mine Workers of America, as was Testerman:
together, they were instrumental in leading the mining community's
resistance to the Baldwin-Felts operatives. They offered both men
substantial bribes to allow them to station machine-guns in the town.
Hatfield and Testerman refused. The Battle of Matewan was precipitated by
the Baldwin-Felts agents' attempts to evict the families of unionised
miners.
On 2 June 1920, in Huntington, he married Jessie Lee Maynard (1894-1976),
the widowed second wife of Testerman, who had been mortally wounded in
the battle. The speed of the marriage led to an attempt at arrest and
accusations by Thomas Felts and the Baldwin-Felts spy, Charles Everett
Lively, that he, not Albert Felts, had shot the Mayor because of his
desire for Jessie. However, according to Jessie, her first husband, aware
of the danger of their situation, had asked that his friend take care of
her and their young son, Jackson (1915-2001), should he be killed.[4]
The battle had given Hatfield a degree of celebrity. He appeared in a
short film, Smilin' Sid, for the UMWA, and was photographed with other
UMWA activists, including Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones. However, he was
aware that his life was in danger from Felts, who sought vengeance for
his brothers Albert and Lee. He was indicted on murder charges stemming
from the Matewan shootout but was later acquitted by the jury. He was
sent to stand trial with his friend and deputy, Edward Chambers, on
conspiracy charges for another incident, in Welch, West Virginia. Both
men arrived in Welch on 1 August, 1921, unarmed and accompanied by their
wives. Several Baldwin-Felts men shot them on the McDowell County
Courthouse steps. Hit in the arm, and three or four times in the chest,
Hatfield died instantly.[5] Chambers was shot several more times, as his
wife tried to defend him, and finished off with a bullet in the head by
Charles Everett Lively.[6] None of the Baldwin-Felts detectives was ever
convicted of Hatfield's assassination: they claimed they had acted "in
self-defence".
There was an outpouring of grief for the fallen local heroes at the
funeral, which was attended by at least 3,000 people, and conducted with
full honours from the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Redmen (he was
a member of all of these organisations). It was one of the more immediate
causes of outrage that led to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
References
[1] The 1893 date is usually given, and appears on his gravestone.
However, according to the 1900 Census for Pike Co., KY, 0104 Magisterial
District 5, Blackberry Precinct, he was born in 1891, and his sister
Martha Alice in 1893.
[2] West Virginia "The History of An American State"
[3] See interview with Dixie Accord in documentary West Virginia: A Film
History
[4] Lon Savage, Thunder in the Mountains: the West Virginia Mine War,
1920-21, 1985, pp. 26-28.
[5] Death Certificate. Mrs Hatfield's distress is suggested by her
confusion over her father-in-law's name: the correct name, "Jake", has
been struck out and overwritten with "Freeland", the name of Sid's
younger brother.
[6] Both the film Matewan and Newsinger's review of it, "Matewan: film
and working class struggle", mistakenly claim that it was Hatfield to
whom Lively gave the coup-de-grace: Sallie Chambers' testimony and the
injuries noted on the two men's death certificates make it clear,
however, that it was Chambers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Hatfield
https://www.facebook.com/groups/384292955068801/permalink/420722568092506/
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Name Sid Hatfield
Event Type Burial
Event Date 1921
Event Place Buskirk, Pike, Kentucky, United States of America
Photograph Included Y
Birth Date 15 May 1893
Death Date 01 Aug 1921
Affiliate Record Identifier 9980
Cemetery Buskirk Cemetery
Citing this Record
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9980
"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ1-1STG : accessed 31 January
2016), Sid Hatfield, 1921; Burial, Buskirk, Pike, Kentucky, United States
of America, Buskirk Cemetery; citing record ID 9980, Find a Grave,
http://www.findagrave.com.
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