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Rissa Edith Hammon


NOTES: "Mom Henderson," as she was known to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, served as postmaster of Henderson, Montana, after her marriage. Henderson was a logging camp up the Clark Fork from Missoula, Montana, founded by her brother-in-law, Benjamin Wymond Henderson and his partner, a Montana politician named Donlan. Returning to Indiana in 1907, she was a farm wife for several years, returning to work later as bookkeeper for the Ripley County Farm Bureau, which her husband managed, and after that as a teller at the Osgood bank. She moved to Yakima, Washington, about 1965, and resided beside her daughter Bertha until shortly before her death. When she left Washington, 15 March, she announced that she was going home to Indiana to die, and ten days later did just that ... a characteristic finale to a long and rich life.

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Nicholas Ebeneezer Hammon


1. Rufus Ole Hammon

2. Merton Alva Hammon

3. John Elbridge Hammon

4. Rissa Edith Hammon


NOTES: Nicholas was attacked by a bull, suffering a deep gash to his head, broken ribs and injury to his heart and lungs. He lingered from Saturday morning until Monday afternoon, the fifth of July, when he died. He had served as a Justice of the Peace for Ripley County at one time, and was a Knight of Pythias, Versailles, Indiana Lodge. His birth place has been given as Missouri, Illinois, and elsewhere in census reports, but his own statement is Sedgwick County, Kansas. Obituary, Versailles (Indiana) News, July, 1920. Original marriage certificate in my possession, wherein he states he was born in Sedgwick County. Tanglewood Cemetery, Ripley County, Indiana. Ripley County marriage records.

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John H. Hammon(d)


Children by Catharine Sutton:

1. Winnie Hammon

2. Nicholas Ebeneezer Hammon

3. William Hammon


Children by Lucy Crippen:

1. Lucretia Hammon

2. Kate Hammon

3. Mary Hammon


NOTES: Lucy had at least one son, Ira Crippen, born to her of her first husband, about 1854, in Iowa. Ira Crippen became a photographer in and around Jennings County, Indiana. There is also a daughter, Winnie, but whether she was a daughter of Lucy and (_____) Crippen, or a daughter of John and Catharine (Sutton) Hammon is unresolved. Both John Hammond and Lucy Crippen seem to have moved around "out west" quite a bit, leaving a difficult trail to follow. It would appear that Catharine Sutton died shortly after the birth of her son William. How John and Lucy met up and married is unknown to us; however, they were back in Indiana with their combined families before 1860 (Switzerland County census records). There seems not to have been a strong bond between Nicholas Hammon and his father, and we have speculated that this may have to do with the death of Catharine, problems with this step-mother, or the jealousies of the family John and Lucy (Crippen) Hammond found together.

John H. Hammond was born in Ohio, not in Ohio County, Indiana, as has been erroneously reported, according to his statement in the 860 Switzerland County, Indiana, census. There was a sizable Hammond family in Switzerland County, with many names commonly used, including Nicholas. The Ohio origins become clear from their common census affirmations. But, where in Ohio, and how the various Nicholas Hammon(d)s inter-relate has not been dicovered.

Rock Island, Illinois, Marriages, Volume A, page 103.

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Catharine Sutton


NOTES: Married 1836, and died shortly after the birth of William in 1852, when she would have been about 38-40 years of age. I cannot help but wonder if there were children born between 1837 and 1849 who did not survive infancy. We have searched every 1850 record we can find for record of this family, to no avail.

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John C. Sutton


1. Elijah Sutton

2. Joshua Sutton

3. John D. Sutton

4. Joseph Sutton

5. Daniel Sutton

6. Charles Sutton

7. Lucy Ann Sutton

8. Catharine Sutton


NOTES: Sutton family information from Milo Sutton, shared privately and posted publicly at the Milo Sutton Home Page.

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Nicholas Hammon


1. Electa Hammon

2. William H. Hammon

3. Charles Hammon

4. John Hammon

5. Mary E. Hammon

6. Vina Hammon

7. Albert Hammon


NOTES: A sizable family of Hammon(d)s appears to have moved into Indiana in the early 1810's, settling in the southern parts of Ripley and northern parts of Switzerland Counties. Trying to sort them out is rather like trying to pull a cobweb out of your hair and then reassembling it. There was considerable use of same names, marriages among cousins, and later, antipathy between generations. There are a couple distinct possibilities for the parents of John H. and Nicholas Hammon, notably John Hammon, born about 1793, Maryland (found in Pleasant township, Switzerland County, 1850 census), and Jonathan Hammon, born c1773 in Maryland (and he may be John's father?)

We know from Rissa and Elbridge Hammon that their father was a cousin of Vina and William Hammon, and that Ira Crippen married his "cousin," Vina (Ira, being Lucy Crippen's son by her first husband, was not related to Vina by blood we know of). We also have a picture of Nicholas Ebeneezer Hammon with his two sisters, Kate and Mary. But the good hard proof about this family has yet to come to light. The Hammons present the most tangled mess in all my lineage. It does not help that Nicholas Ebeneezer Hammon had virtually nothing to do with his father and step-mother once he was grown.

 

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