Harriett J. SUTHERLAND Vinal was born October 20, 1867 in Portage, Maine to Charles and Caroline Sutherland. She married William Albert Vinal whom she may have known in Maine or perhaps met in Nome where her cousin was teaching. Hattie and William lived all over Alaska before she died in Seldovia October 10, 1937. She is buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery in Plot #79.