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JAMES L. HATCHETT was born in 1838 in this county, and is one of three children born to Archard and Sarah (Lucky) Hatchett. The father was born in 1782, in Virginia; came to Rutherford County, Tenn., in 1806, where he remained a few years, and then came to this county, locating on the farm where he lived and died, which is also the birthplace of our subject and his present home. He followed farming, making stock raising a specialty, and was an associate of David Crockett, with whom he frequently hunted game in this vicinity; and even now their initials maybe seen carved together on many trees in this county. His first wife, Susan Sublet, bore him eleven children, and died about 1834; he then married our subject’s mother, a native of North Carolina. She was born in 1799, and died in May, 1879. The father died May 24, 1852. Our subject remained with his parents until their deaths; but on the day of his majority he married Jane Larkin, a native of this county, to which marriage eight children were born, all living. The mother of these children died March 23, 1875. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in Company K, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, with which command he remained until the close of the war, and then returned to his farm, which he has since cultivated, devoting considerable attention to stock raising. Mr. Hatchett and family are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.