I very recently heard from Betty Jean Nihill Taylor who wrote that she was the granddaughter of Nellie Nash Hatton. Betty's mother was Marie Hatton Nihill. She wrote that I only had 3 children listed for Marie and her husband, Robert Carlos Nihill and she wanted me to know that there were 2 more; herself and another sister, Delma Marie Nihill Schmold.

I explained that our information on the Nash family had been very limited. Without Janet Nash's help in the beginning this website would not have even been in existence. Some things I got from old newspaper articles on the internet...but either way I wanted to have this page with the corrections and a very nice history that Betty Jean sent me via email.

This page is in honor of Marie Hatton Nihill who passed away March 22, 2002 at the age of 87. She was the daughter of John Albert Hatton & Ellen Ethel "Nellie" Nash, the granddaughter of Thomas Nash & Sarah Jane Cooksey, the great granddaughter of Jeremiah & Charlotte Miles Nash.

John Albert Hatton and Ellen Ethel "Nellie" Nash had 6 children that we know of;

Walter Hatton
Elmer Hatton
Marie Hatton who married Robert Carlos Nihill
Hazel Hatton who married Jim Stapleton
Irene Hatton who married Joe Anderson
Dorothy Hatton who married John Allan

Marie Hatton and Robert Carlos Nihill had 5 children;

Leah Ellen Nihill who married Hans Schawalder Jr.
Willard Carlos Nihill who married Grace Agnes Reid
Sheila Nihill
Betty Jean Nihill who married Wilson Taylor
Delma Marie Nihill who married Unknown Schmold

What follows is a very nice email that Betty Jean Nihill Taylor sent that recounts some of her family history;

Hi Toni,

Hi, thanks for your response. It’s been great to hear from relatives that are part of your heritage. Nellie was my only grandmother as my father’s mother passed away of Leukemia before my mom (Marie) and my dad (Carl) were married. Nellie, was a very strong lady, she helped my mom tremendously when we lost our father to a drowning accident in 1951. Both my Grandma and Grandpa Hatton never missed a week that they didn’t walk up to our place to visit my mom and us kids at least 2 times a week. My mom would have been lost without her. As a young girl I remember her reprimanding me and my siblings for not pulling out weight around the house with the house cleaning, as my mom had no choice but to be the bread winner with my dad gone. My mom also became a very strong lady; she worked at what ever she could to look after her family. I recall in the early fifties when the oil boom came to our town and she decided to turn our home into a boarding place for 13 boarders of which she also roomed 3 of them. We all worked very hard to make this happen, but my mom certainly did the lions share. It gave her lot of satisfaction and independence financially. The boarders were very appreciative and ate very well. Many of them kept in touch for the rest of her life. My mother passed away 4 years ago at age 87. She was the last one of her siblings to pass on. Her sister Irene Anderson (Hatton) the oldest daughter of Nellie and Albert passed away about 40 years ago from Parkinson’s disease. Then her brother Elmer Hatton passed away about 6 years later from prostate cancer. Her sister Hazel Stapleton (Hatton) passed away about 15 years (not sure of the cause). Her brother Walter Hatton (nickname Buster), passed away?. Her youngest sister Dorothy Allan (Hatton) passed away about 1997 (not sure of the cause) but she suffered a lot from asthma during her mid to later years I know that my mom found it more difficult to carry on without her siblings as she was very close to them. My mother did live until she was 87 and we had a celebration for both her 75th and 85th birthday, which she enjoyed. She had arthritis, old age diabetic condition and congestive heart failure towards the end of her life. Her life was full of my challenges with my brother Willard who had a deformed kidney at birth, but we didn’t discover it until he had an accident with a wheel barrow full of cement that tipped over and ruptured his kidney. He was rushed to the University hospital in Edmonton AB for surgery. He was left with just one kidney, which wasn’t the best either. That one kidney failed him and he died at age 56. My mom took his death very hard as it was her only son. He was a wonderful brother. He did a very short temper at times, but that mellowed out over the years. My sister Delma, who is 2 years younger than me, was born with a “club” foot. It was not a pretty site and it took many doctors and surgery to reconstruct her foot. She does walk normal but will always have to cope with it maybe turning back on her.

Well this is long enough for now there is a lot of history to catch up on. I did go on a trip with my oldest sister Leah and her husband Hans and my mom and my two youngest sisters about 45 years ago. I was only 15 at the time, but I do remember we visited a relative in Detroit of my grandmothers (Nellie). His name was Bill Nash and his family. We really enjoyed our visit and they were very hospitable and friendly. We had his famous meat loaf with all the trimmings was delicious. Could this be the William Arthur Nash you’re speaking of?

I do have some pictures that I want to scan and send to you, but we are getting ready for our trip to Europe, plus we both still work full time. Time permitting I will do my best to get those to you before we leave on April 10th but if not I will get them to you when we come back in May.

Please feel free to put our email address on your website. And could you please as George Wayne Nash Jones to email us as we are going to England in April and it would be great to correspond with him.

Thanks.

Sincerely

Wilson and Betty Taylor

Betty Jean Taylor's address will be on the Homepage as well...Toni