First Families of Jasper County

Dimmick Lattin

Biography
A work in Progress

There is much that I don't know about the life of Dimmick Lattin but he probably descended from Richard Lattin who came to America from England in 1638 and first settled in Boston. He then turned up in Concord Mass. in 1643, Fairfield Connecticut in 1646, Hempstead Long Island in 1654 and Oyster Bay Long Island in 1660 where he died in 1672. Richard bought land from the Indians in 1646, which was called Lattington Tract, the present location of Lattington Long Island. From that time Richard Lattin's descendants fanned out throughout the Colonies and today can be found in every state.

Dimmick Lattin, as the census records indicate, was born in New York State. Most Lattin researchers agree that he was born in Albany County New York in 1800. The census records of 1850 and 1870 indicate he was born in 1799 or 1800. Dimmick turned up in Lost Creek twp., Miami County Ohio in 1818 when he married Mary Catherine Saunders, one of the 9 children of Theodore and Catherine Saunders. Dimmick and Mary had two children before Mary died in 1835. Dimmick married Serena Taylor in 1837. They had 8 children.

According to the Bureau of Land Management, Dimmick purchased 160 acres in Lebanon, Boone County Indiana in 1837. Land records show that in 1854 Dimmick Lattin purchased 40 acres in Mineral Twp., Jasper County Missouri west of Carthage where he was recorded in the 1870 Census. His grandson, George James Bumpus was born on the Lattin farm in 1870 and his birth certificate records Carthage as his birthplace.

No Lattin researcher has been able to locate Dimmick Lattin in the 1860 census but all agree he must have been in Jasper County. A Plat Map from 1876 indicates two parcels had been added to the Lattin farm. One of 120 acres and another of 40 acres straddling the Spring River, then owned by George Lattin, one of Dimmick's sons. That increased the size of the farm to 200 acres. The Seidensticker family purchased the 40-acre parcel on the river in 1879. The farm was on the west side of what is now the town of Purcell, which was founded in 1903.

According to the inscription on Dimmick Lattin's tombstone in the Indian White/ Seidensticker Cemetery, he died in 1872.