Our Hammond and Hale Ancestors First Edition Our Hammond and Hale Ancestors by Elton A. and Janice T. Watlington The authors may be contacted at: 1226 S. Prescott Rd., Memphis, TN 38111-5502 (901) 324–0919 or 142 Fitzgerald Rd., Jackson, TN 38301 First Edition First Printing, Sept. 28, 2005. Second Printing, Oct. 2, 2005. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Watlington, Elton A. Our Hammond and Hale Ancestors / Elton A. Watlington, Janice T. Watlington. p. Includes illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. 1. Hammond Family—Genealogy; 2. Hale Family—Genealogy; 3. Watlington Family—Genealogy; 4. Tennessee, West—Genealogy; 5. Tennessee, West—History; 6. Tennessee, Madison Co.—Genealogy; 7. Tennessee, Madison Co.—History. I. Watlington, Janice T. II. Title Copyright (cid:13)c 2005, Elton A. Watlington. All rights reserved. Permission to reproduce and use the information contained in this document for non-profit use and without fee is hereby granted. Printed in the United States of America. THE SHORT AND SIMPLE ANNALS OF THE POOR Selected verses from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds... Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree’s shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep... For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire’s return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. v vi Contents Preface xiii On Family History and Family Pride xv 1 Ohio Roots 1 Jonathan Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Jason Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Calvin Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Recollections of the Hale-Hammond Pioneers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Jason Hammond and Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Jonathan Hale and Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Elijah Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Sarah Hale Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Evaline Hale Bosworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Mary Hale Strong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Theodore Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sarah Hale Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Other Children of Theodore and Irene . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Myra Hale Hobbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Irene Lyman Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Organizing a Church in Bath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 A Church was Organized, 1823 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Books and Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Maxims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Occupations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Housekeeping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Sophronia Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Pamelia Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Andrew Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Othello Hale Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 vii viii CONTENTS 2 Hammond Families of Illinois 53 Lucinda Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Ward Kingsbury Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Royal Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Merwin Kingsbury Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Julius A. Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Julia Sarah Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Mercy Jane Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Life Resume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Addenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Edwin Orson Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Royal Cornelius Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Horatio Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Hammond-Jameson Religious Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 3 The Civil War Period 83 Military Record of Edwin O. Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Charles N. Hammond Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Charles N. Hammond Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Beginning of the Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Remainder of the Notebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 4 Hammonds of West Tennessee 105 Charles Newell Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Orson Ward Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Letters of O. W. Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 The Memory Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Jennie Sophronia Hammond Watlington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 In memory of Jennie Sophronia Hammond Watlington . . . . 123 Emma Mai Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Life Resume of Miss Emma Mai Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Addenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Clara Matilda Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Mabel Augusta Harton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Mary Frances Harton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Roberta Matilda Harton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 James Leslie Harton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Leland Wesley Harton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Clarisa Mercedes Harton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 The Hartons of Malesus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Harton Ancestor Located . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 CONTENTS ix 5 New England Ancestors 137 Early Hale Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Samuel Hale, the elder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Samuel Hale, the junior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Jonathan Hale, the elder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Theodore Hale, the elder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Early Hammond Families . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Thomas Hammond, the elder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Thomas Hammond, the younger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Isaac Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Elijah Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Nathaniel Hammond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Ancestral Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 6 Jameson and Craig Ancestors 149 The Jameson Ancestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Matilda Craig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Mary Eliza Jameson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Bibliography 155 Index 159 x CONTENTS