Hatfield Station, near Catlettsburg, KY

[Ira A. Runyan]

My father grew up on what he called “the farm” which was owned by his Grandfather JOSEPH ADRON RUNYON and wife COLUMBIA HATFIELD. The photo above is the homestead on the property which was located at the intersection of the Big Sandy River and the Ohio River just outside of Catlettsburg, Kentucky.

Ransom Hatfield and Tabitha "Vicy" Taylor were Columbia's parents. They lived in Pike County, Kentucky for many years, then purchased farm land on the Big Sandy River near Catlettsburg where they lived and died. They were buried in the Ransom Hatfield Cemetery near the Homestead. After their deaths, Columbia inherited the homestead.

The Ransom Hatfield farm and homestead was located next to the homestead property owned by Thomas P. Martin Runyon.

Ashland Oil purchased the property many years later and moved the Ransom Hatfield Cemetery and the nearby Asa H. Runyon burial ground to a new location between Catlettsburg and Ashland, Kentucky.

In a 1921 newspaper article relating to the death of GREELEY L. RUNYON the property was called the “Hatfield Station, near Catlettsburg”. Does anybody know what the Hatfield Station Was? Did the property have a water freight or railroad station located on it?