Harriet Virginia Hatzell was born in 1849 in Louisville, KY. Her parents were William Henry and Margaret Ann Smith Hatzell. Her father was German and her mother's ancestors were of English and Dutch descent They were affluent and "very proper". Hattie and her two sisters were raised to be "ladies". She was taught to paint, as well as appreciate music, do embroidery, quilting,sewing, crochet and to play the piano. "Ladies did not work, the help did that, no household work, only to perhaps straighten a few things".
Her father was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy and they approved when she chose to marry Dr Phillip Grable Trunnell of Louisville, who was a Civil War veteran and member of the famed Orphan Brigade and Morgan's Raiders. They were comfortable and he was good to her, but she wasn't pampered like she was in her parent's home. So, when her children were young adults, she divorced him and moved with them to Chattanooga, TN and eventually to Salt Lake City, UT. While she was in Utah, her son George was tragically killed in a train accident. Several years later she moved to Lovelock, Nevada with her daughter Edna. She lived a very long life and passed away in Lovelock at the age of 96.
Her father was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy and they approved when she chose to marry Dr Phillip Grable Trunnell of Louisville, who was a Civil War veteran and member of the famed Orphan Brigade and Morgan's Raiders. They were comfortable and he was good to her, but she wasn't pampered like she was in her parent's home. So, when her children were young adults, she divorced him and moved with them to Chattanooga, TN and eventually to Salt Lake City, UT. While she was in Utah, her son George was tragically killed in a train accident. Several years later she moved to Lovelock, Nevada with her daughter Edna. She lived a very long life and passed away in Lovelock at the age of 96.
Harriet Virginia Hatzell was born in 1849 in Louisville, KY. Her parents were William Henry and Margaret Ann Smith Hatzell. Her father was German and her mother's ancestors were of English and Dutch descent They were affluent and "very proper". Hattie and her two sisters were raised to be "ladies". She was taught to paint, as well as appreciate music, do embroidery, quilting,sewing, crochet and to play the piano. "Ladies did not work, the help did that, no household work, only to perhaps straighten a few things".
Her father was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy and they approved when she chose to marry Dr Phillip Grable Trunnell of Louisville, who was a Civil War veteran and member of the famed Orphan Brigade and Morgan's Raiders. They were comfortable and he was good to her, but she wasn't pampered like she was in her parent's home. So, when her children were young adults, she divorced him and moved with them to Chattanooga, TN and eventually to Salt Lake City, UT. While she was in Utah, her son George was tragically killed in a train accident. Several years later she moved to Lovelock, Nevada with her daughter Edna. She lived a very long life and passed away in Lovelock at the age of 96.
Her father was an ardent supporter of the Confederacy and they approved when she chose to marry Dr Phillip Grable Trunnell of Louisville, who was a Civil War veteran and member of the famed Orphan Brigade and Morgan's Raiders. They were comfortable and he was good to her, but she wasn't pampered like she was in her parent's home. So, when her children were young adults, she divorced him and moved with them to Chattanooga, TN and eventually to Salt Lake City, UT. While she was in Utah, her son George was tragically killed in a train accident. Several years later she moved to Lovelock, Nevada with her daughter Edna. She lived a very long life and passed away in Lovelock at the age of 96.
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