Bonus: Ira Stearns Hatch (father of couple 2)

[Dad's paternal grandfather's maternal Grandparents]
[V.O. Jackson > Amelia Hatch > Orin Hatch > Ira Stearns Hatch]

Bonus material from a source document linked to Orin Hatch in FamilySearch.org, regarding Ira Stearns Hatch:

I shall relate the story of Ira Stearns Hatch who is my husband's Great-grandfather.  He and his two brothers with their families lived in Winchester, New York, and were cattle raisers.  A tribe of Nicaragua Indians lived not far from the Hatch home, and as was the custom in early days of the church, missionaries were sent to preach to the Indians.  Ira Stearns Hatch's wife went to listen to what these missionaries had to say.  She believed their story and told her husband that she wanted to join that church, but her husband told her that this church was so persecuted by other churches tha they had better wait awhile, and do some more investigating.  In those days they didn't have  all the magazines in their homes as we have today, but they did have the Bible and Ira Stearns Hatch and his family read the Bible.  Soon they learned that the Mormon people were to build a temple in Kirtland, Ohio, and this made Mr. Hatch believe that it could be the true church as they had read of Solomon's temple in the Bible.  They had also heard that Joseph Smith claimed to be a Prophet of the Lord.

Mr. Hatch had $300 in the bank and wanting to know the truth as to whether this man was a Prophet of the Lord, as he claimed to be, he told his wife and family that he was going to Kirtland, and take this money to assist in the building of the temple, when he definitely found out that this man was a prophet of the Lord.  For three days he traveled in a horse drawn wagon until he reached Kirtland.  Upon arriving he asked where he might find Joseph Smith.  He was told that he was cutting timber for the erection of the temple.  As Mr. Hatch approached this grove of  trees, a young man looked up, and striking his axed into a tree, he approached Mr. Hatch and said to him, "Mr Hatch we have waited for three days to receive the money that you have brought to assist in the building of the temple.  We shall use it to build the altars.  The prophet had never before seen Mr. Hatch nor know that he had any money with him, so Ira Stearns Hatch knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that this man was a prophet of the Lord.  The family was baptized into the church and moved to Kirtland and assisted in the building of the temple there.  They also assisted in the building of the temple at Nauvoo when the saints were driven from Kirtland.  While at Nauvoo the mother died, leaving Mr. Hatch to raise their seven children.