Monday, June 3, 2013  Heritage Trail: Hatches in Scipio  Hearing
stories of my grandma's childhood in this small Utah town hadn't
prepared me for how enchanted my children would be to stay
there! What is a hardship for Scipio natives (school an hour
away in Fillmore, no grocery store) created a country retreat
that felt more than a two hours' drive from our suburban home.
198 W Center Street, Scipio William Ira and Maggie Muir
Hatch were early settlers of Skip-10 (as my grandpa called it),
and raised their family of ten children there (although we were
not able to identify which house they had lived in). William
served as a bishop during the flu epidemic of 1918, which killed
him. Their oldest son Frank graduated from the U, but returned
to Scipio about the time his father died, to help with the
family farm and the electrification of rural Utah. He brought
his wife Charlotte and their young family, eventually raising
nine children in Scipio. Their grandchildren came back to Scipio
every summer to work on the