Angeline Williams was born on January 28, 1817 in Cattaraugus County, New York to Alfred Williams and Martha R. (Marsh) Williams. She was married to Thomas Hatton on August 13, 1844 in Winnebago, Illinois. They had seven children: Sarah (b. ci. 1847), Abigail (b. November 6, 1848), John F. (b. June 28, 1851), Thomas (b. ci. 1854), Josephine (b. August of 1860), David H (b. ci. 1861), and George Samuel (b. November 10, 1862). The family resided in Elida, Winnebago, Illinois in the 1850s, then in Rush, Jo Daviess, Illinois in the early 1860s. Thomas worked as a carpenter, and she kept house.
Thomas died in 1884. Angeline was possibly living with her son George and daughter Sarah in Aurora, Iowa in 1900, and by 1905 they had moved to Buffalo, Iowa. She passed away in 1908 in Buchanan County, Iowa and was buried in the Spangler Cemetery in Aurora, Iowa.