Hatch Cemetery served the Hatch family and other members of the former community of Chocolate. Captain Sylvanus Hatch, founder of the settlement, was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts on June 1, 1788. He became a contractor and builder, later moved to Louisiana, and in 1821 married Pamela Louisa Nicholson Brown, a widow with three children from her previous marriage; together they had three additional children. Much of Captain Hatch's life was devoted to military service, including service in the War of 1812 as an adjutant under General Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans and later service in the Texas War for Independence. Sylvanus Hatch and his family came to Texas in the 1820s and moved to the Chocolate Creek area by 1842. The family became involved in civic, church, and educational activities. Captain Hatch established the cemetery in 1850, when his wife Pamela died of cholera after she and her husband had attended German immigrants with the disease who had docked at Indianola; victims of the outbreak are buried here. Captain Hatch and two of his sons, John and Davis, both Confederate veterans, are also buried here. Members of the Brett and Foester families and other community members are interred there as well. Features of the cemetery include curbing and a 1936 Texas centennial marker for Sylvanus Hatch. In 1959, Hatch Bend Country Club purchased the property and has maintained the burial ground since then. Today, Hatch Cemetery continues to serve as a record of a pioneering Texas family.