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Death of Isaac Burres Hatch
Written by Adelle H. Johnson, grand-daughter, taken from the back of a Family Group sheet in the Archives Patron Section.
“Isaac Burres Hatch was shot from ambush by an assassin thought to have been the notorious Bill Hickman about the 1st of March 1853, at one of the Cottonwood stream crossings south of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Isaac B. Hatch’s first wife, Mary Garlick Hatch, has this to say of the tragedy, that her husband, Isaac, dealings with this man Hickman and that when he came to realize that there was wrong doing going on he withdrew in associations form him, and at the time of the shooting, had been induced by Hickman to go to Salt Lake City with him on some plausible pretext. It was on the way home to what was then, I Believe, called Union, somewhere about Murray or Sandy now that the shooting occurred. They are on horseback and Hickman loitered behind and among the willows which lined the sides of the creek crossing. Isaac riding on ahead when a shot rang out and Isaac was shot in the back. He told his family afterward he knew it was Hickman who did it because he turned in time to see the smoke from his gun. Hickman acted surprised and called out, “Are you shot Ike?” He acted very soliatous and kindly and helped Isaac to his home where he died on the 28 of March 1853.
Wife Mary said that Hickman had a pair of very fine mares, he thought dishonestly, and that Isaac knew or suspicioned to whom they belonged, and that as Isaac would not be one of them, the outlaw decided he knew too much about their doings, to be safe for them.
Mary and Hannah were each left with two small boys, and to Mary was born a third son in August of that year. The widows moved to Provo where Mary married Francis Laurence who died in about two years, leaving her with an infant daughter. She then married her husband’s brother William and moved to Koosharem, Utah where her set up a small mercantile business. She died there in July 1900. Hannah was married to Samuel or Abram Shepherd, two sons born to them. She died at Springville 1892.
There have grossly untrue things written by the Rev. Beatle and others about the doings of Isaac B. Hatch, in connections with the notorious Bill, much to the sorrow of his wives and children. While he may have been drawn into some of Hickman’s schemes, he had the courage to take a stand when he knew wrong was being done, and that stand cost him his life. Isaac B. Hatch two wives (sisters) were most excellent women, good and honorable, staunch L.D.S. and he has from his five sons, a large and honorable posterity.
I read this story in the “Hatch Headlines” Vol. 4, December 1987

Birth	14 Feb 1823	Leroy, Jefferson County, New York
Marriage	10 Sep 1845	Iowa - Mary Jane Garlick
Death	22 Mar 1853	Big Cottonwood, Salt Lake County, Utah

Spouse	Mary Jane Garlick (1822 - 1900)
Child	George Andrew Hatch (1847 - 1910)

Father	Jacob Hatch (1773 - 1876)
Mother	Elizabeth "Betsey" Wilde (1786 - 1847)