What A Difference...
Monday - A Buzzing Beehive
"Wow! - really busy day at the Hatsell-Clawson!!"
Note screened porch finished except for paint
and the old doors leaning - waiting to be rehung...
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Hot Summer Update
Gerry Sadler's crew has been working a hard, inside and out. They have been making all final structural necessary repairs inside and putting in the HVAC. They are getting ready to finish roof this week. Shortly afterward the interior walls will go up. Here are some shots showing some of the exterior progress - almost ready for paint.
Robert's Pics Taken Over the Weekend...
Old Photos
Roof , Old Paint and More...
Some Walls Come Tumbling Down
A Couple of Interesting Photos
Step by Step - Rear Foundations
So, foundations need to be poured and the addition framed out.
The Gutting Process
Since the 1902 Hatsell-Clawson house was turned into 3 apartments in the mid-to-late 50s, the house had to be gutted in order to start the restoration/reconstructing process - 'recreating' the rooms and stairway close to the way they were when the house was built.
DOWNSTAIRS
Feb. 14, 2008 "Treasures" Found
Other items are described below.
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The photo above shows the front of the 1925 get-well card, old notes and a magazine page flipped over showing James Cagney. The crumbling get-well card is signed by Sue Thomas who writes that she is on her way to Richmond "to find diagnosis of my side." This could possibly be Sue Thomas who married Murray Thomas, Jr. in 1917. She was Elizabeth Cheek's mother.(click images to enlarge)
Photograph taken in the lower kitchen of the same items:Large Bottle label is torn and crumbling. It reads: Nyal's Cod Liver Oil - Compound - Tonic and Tissue Builder Alcohol 16% - Palatable Preparation..from fatty ami..extractive princip..fresh cod livers..wild ch..malt and..phites..potassiu..children..years..as req...
The small bottle is labeled:
RECORDS & GOLDSBOROUGH - BALTIMORE, MD.
The bottles were found between the walls, behind the plaster, as if placed there as "time capsules" when the house was built.
The small tin labeled STAG is obviously a pocket-tobacco tin.
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Envelope Postmarked 1951
1951 Christmas Greetings Certificate fromBlake & James Furniture Company to
Mr. & Mrs. Earl Garner
As of this post, it is assumed that the Garners were
renting the house after Miss Marie's 1951 death.
Valentine's Day - 2008
The mantles are removed and put on the front porch
Fireplace in lower-level front northeast room with mantle removed
Lower-level north room fireplace that back up to the fireplacein the front northeast corner room
Lower-level northeast corner room with baseboards and window trim removed
Lower northeast room looking toward entrance hall
Corner detail of lower northeast room
Upstairs hall showing lathing strips
Upstairs northeast room
Upstairs looking toward front southeast room
Upstairs southeast room with windows removedMarie Ella Clawson's Family
CHARLES ALFRED
Charles Alfred Clawson was born in
Mary Donavon came to
By this time Mary Donovan was a young lady. She met Charles A. Clawson and they were later married. They had two sons; Charles Alfred Jr., and Warren and five daughters; Christine, Marie Ella, Annie and Lillie. Alida died in infancy.
Charles A. Clawson Jr., born 1873, married Jane Pigott Pool, born 1872. They were married 1898. Jane was the daughter of James Harrell and Cinderilla Roberson Pool. Charles and Jane had five sons and one daughter. They were: James Pool, Charles Alfred, William Carlton (who died at age of one year), Frank Doane, Dave Pool and Marie Hinton.
When his father’s health was failing, Mr. Charles (as he was called by many of his friends) with the help of his mother, took over the bakery business in the brick building on the north side of
Around 1908 Charles Clawson built a new brick store on the north side of the street next door to his mother and father’s home. Where his parents’ front yard was, is now [1984] The Men’s Shop and the Ladies Shop.
The store and bakery buildings now [1984] under the ownership of William and Candy Rogers are the home of a very popular restaurant in Beaufort. The original name “Grocery Clawson’s Bakery” now [1984] reads “Cookery Clawson’s Saloon.”
People still remember how good those sweet buns and hot breads use to smell, when they walked by the store and how good they were to eat. 
Before motor vehicles came into general use the groceries and bakery goods were delivered around town in a wagon van pulled by a big red horse called “June Bug.” June Bug was very temperamental and one of the better known characters around town. He allowed himself to be hitched and driven only by four men. The delivery man Charley Gibson, Charles Clawson, Jack Neal and Mr. Clawson.
On Sunday afternoon Mr. Clawson would load up the van with his children and their friends and head for Mr. Jimmy Hancock’s home and farm. It was just on the other side of the town gate. He would visit with Mr. Jimmy while the children played; and, during grape season picked grapes.
For many years
About 1932 Clawson’s closed due to the “Depression.”
Historic Commission OKs Home Restoration
Beaufort – Restoration of an
The request for exterior changes at
In his presentation of the project to the HPC, Mr. Sadler included a photo of the house taken in 1905. He said the goal was to make the house look like it did in the photo.
Some of the rework would incorporate any original materials from the house that would be saved, he said, like wood siding or bricks for restructuring the chimneys.
On the front of the house, the second-story door above the porch will be replace with a window to match the existing windows. The two front doors will be removed to create one front entrance, and a transom will be installed over the door to match the photo from 1905.
In the back, two sets of
Old windows on the house will be reworked as needed, with storm windows added to the front, and all remaining windows will be with
The house will also receive a new coat of paint, with siding white, shutters Beaufort green, the porch deck a medium gray and porch ceiling a “barely” blue.
Also, in an effort to restore the home’s 1905 appearance, a Beaufort-style wooden picket fence, painted white, will be erected in the front yard.
HPC member Dan Krautheim made the motion to approve a COA (Certificate of Appropriateness) for the restoration project and member Mamré Wilson gave the second.
Pre-Restoration
Then, Now & Months from Now...
THEN - The 1902 Hatsell-Clawson House was built by Canelium Clarence Guthrie - either before or after Charlie Hatsell's marriage to Marie Ella Clawson. The Hatsell's three children - Francis 1905, Carl 1907 and Henry 1911, were born and reared here. Depending on the date of this photo, the young man posing on the front porch could be either of Charlie and Marie's boys. Since there is only one boy in the photo, it is logical that it's Francis - perhaps dating the photo to about 1909. Or, there's a possibility that the young man is William L. Hatsell, nephew born in 1898 - which would date the photo 1902 shortly after the house was built.
NOW - An unknown, at the moment, is when the home was divided into three apartments - obviously after the death of "Miss Marie" in 1951. Included here are a few photos of the present day house. The mystery of the original layout of the interior of the house will unfold soon...
Members will most likely vote to approve all aspects of plans presented to restore this Queen-Anne-style home to what it look liked when built in 1902. Local restoration specialist Gerry Sadler has been contracted to tackle the daunting but challenging
task, which is estimated to take 9-12 months.Click photos to enlarge...
*Item #4 Gerry Sadler/Robert Marshall-119 Orange Street
Gerry Sadler, representative for Robert Marshall, is requesting a Certificate of Appropriateness for the complete renovation of the structure located at 119 Orange Street including replacing doors, windows, reworking of the siding, tearing off and reconstruction of the addition, and rework and change of one story addition to two stories.
Views from the Rooftop-2007
Orange Street Looking Southeast Showing Houses and Land FirstOwned and Built on by the Borden/Fuller Families Going Back
to the Mid 18th Century
Marie Ella and Charles Ives Hatsell
Marie Ella Clawson Hatsell 1876-1951
Charles Ives Hatsell, born February 23, 1878,


In 1947, Charlie retired on his 69th birthday after serving 45 years at the U.S. Fisheries Laboratory
In 1954 Charles Ives Hatsell was included in an article on terrapins in National Geographic. That information will be posted as soon as it is available.
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Francis Graves Hatsell
Among Dr. Hatsell's many accomplishments:
- Chief of Medicine USAF Heart Program School of Aerospace Medicine 1978-1981
- Flight Surgeon USAF 1975-1992
- Adjunct Professor USAF Institute of Technology Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio - 1976-1992
- Associate Clinical Professor of Community Medicine Wright State School of Medicine, Dayton Ohio 1982-2005
for 33 years.Dr. Hatsell died on March 16, 2006 and was buried with full military honors at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Charles was a long-time member of the Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum. He is survived by three children and four grandchildren:
- Charles J. Hatsell
- Elizabeth Hatsell married Jason Manz. Children-Emily, Abigail and Cameron
- Carol Hatsell married Robert Smith. One child-Morgan Smith
Henry Wilson Hatsell
George Andrew & Julia Ellen Hatsel
George Andrew Hatsel 1833-1898, son of Andrew Lee Hatchell 1803-1841, married Julia Ellen Mace about 1868. Julia Ellen was the daughter of Benjamin Mace and Susannah Stanton. The 1870 census shows George and Julia Ellen living near or next door to George's mother Charity, 62, and 20-year-old daughter Julia Read. At that time George, 37, was a clerk in a store - with Julia Ellen, 25, and son George Leonidas-8 months. Living nearby was George's brother William F. Hatsel, 42, listed as a mariner - with Rebecca, 42, and three children.
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Henry
Charles Ives Hatsell
Charity Ann Hatsell
George and Julia Ellen are buried in the Old Burial Ground.
Andrew Lee and Charity Hatchell
Andrew Lee Hatchell 1803-1841
Charity Fuller Hatchell 1807-1891
on Orange Street. A ship's carpenter by trade, William became the primary keeper of the Bodie Island Lighthouse from July 12, 1878 until February 28, 1881. Nathaniel H. Bishop's diary of 1874, Voyage of the Paper Canoe, noted a "Captain William F. Hatzel (sic), a loyal North Carolinian, is the principal keeper, and a most efficient one he is."George Andrew Hatsell was born October 2, 1833. On
About 1869 George Andrew married Julia Ellen Mace (circa 1845-January 20, 1892), daughter of Benjamin Mace and Susannah Stanton. George was a mail agent in Beaufort before becoming a hotel caterer. They had seven children. (See post on George and Julia Ellen's Children)
On January 1, 1901, their daughter Charity Credle married Caleb D. Bradham - a New Bern pharmacist who had invented Pepsi-Cola in 1898. When Charity and Caleb married, Caleb gave his father-in-law, Bryan Griffin Credle, one share of Pepsi-Cola stock. Charity and Caleb's daughter, Mary McCan Bradham, was pictured in a photo ad (image being obtained) when she was about four years old - making her the first and youngest "Pepsi Girl". Charity and Caleb had two other children - Caleb Jr., born in 1905 and George B. born in 1907. Mary McCan Bradham married William D. Pruden Sr.Andrew Lee Hatchell died in 1841. On November 7, 1844, Charity Fuller Hatchell married William Read - a mechanic. They continued to live in the 1827 Orange Street house and raised Andrew and Charity's children as well as two children born to Charity and William - Julia born in 1848 and Charity born in1850. “Miss Julia,” a teacher, once used the outside kitchen as a private school. Charity Fuller Hatsell Read died in 1891. Her daughter Julia Read lived in the 1827 house until all of her nephews were grown. Before 1910 she moved to live with her nephew George L. Hatsell (Charlie's brother) and his two children in Richmond, Georgia. The 1827 house was then rented by part of the Duncan family. The 1910 census shows Fannie Duncan 33, with David 11 and Emily Frances 9.


Andrew Lee Hatchell Comes to Beaufort, NC
Charity Fuller, who lived with her parents on the waterfront. The couple were married on November 16, 1826. Little did he know that this marriage would lead to inherited land and a home for him and his new wife. Even though Andrew met an early death in 1841, this marriage began the Hatchell/Hatsell lineage in Beaufort.Charity Fuller, who would become mother, grandmother and caretaker of the family, was the daughter of Belcher Fuller and Zilphia Gutherie. Belcher Fuller's father Nathan Fuller (1750-1800) served in the Revolutionary War as an ensign in the Carteret County Militia. In Beaufort’s Old Burial Ground Mamré Wilson wrote, as a “navigator and ship owner, Fuller sailed from Beaufort to the
Belcher Fuller's Great Great Grandfather was William Borden. William Borden Jr. purchased property
in 1768, the year the William Borden House was built on the Beaufort waterfront. His father, William Borden, Sr., was a shipbuilder from In 1796, Belcher Fuller 1777-1828, married Zilphia Gutherie 1780-1846. Belcher Fuller was a
Belcher and Zilphia had two daughters. Mary Polly Fuller 1800-1878
married Benjamin Leecraft in 1818. In his 1828 will, Belcher Fuller left them property on the northwest corner of Ann and Orange Streets—now the Arendell House. In 1843, their daughter, Zilphia Ann Leecraft married Michael Fisher Arendell, son of Bridges Arendell and Sarah Fisher.When Belcher and Zilphia's other daughter, Charity Fuller 1807-1891, married Andrew Lee Hatchell in 1826, Fuller left them property on the west side of the first block of
Early English Hatchells Find Their Way to Carteret County, NC
- EARLY HATCHELLS -
The Early English Hatchells may have been in
The father of a William Hatchell, born in
The first known Colonial America Hatchell was William Hatchell - circa 1675-1730 - who came from Ireland and settled by 1696 in Virginia on the Warwick-Elizabeth City County line.
. Andrew Lee Hatchell – January 1803-September 20, 1841
. Archibald Green Hatchell 1804-1837
. Bryan Hatchell 1816-1855
. Green B. Hatchell 1817-1867
. Brancy Hatchell –married Bryan Rumley in 1832
. Willis Hatchell
. Nancy Hatchell –married Timothy Meadows

1733 Mosely Map - Click Map to Enlarge
NOTE: * Henry Hatchell was born circa 1725 and was still living with his father (William #3) when the 1748 Lunenburg tithe (tax list) was taken. Six years later in 1754, Henry appears in Carteret County as a witness to the will of Habbakkuk Russell. He last appeared in Carteret County on the 1790 census and apparently died intestate sometime before the 1800 census. He and his wife Martha had one son, Richard Lewis Hatchell (ca 1755-before 1830) who married Miriam Weeks. Their daughter Martha married Rev. James W. Coston - two sons, David and William.
Armisted Hatchell “sons of A. Hatchell all the lands that my father willed to my mother during her life and after her death to me”. In 1874 (Bk. HH, p. 49), James and William Hatsel bought land in 1874 from D. W. Sanders. The land, including the mill site and the William and Christiana's son William Hatsell, born circa 1766, and his wife Esther Green of Carteret County, had eight children. Their son Andrew Lee Hatchel made his way to



























































































