Sophronia Hale

		b. July 7, 1804 

bp. Glastonbury, Connecticut 

m. May 31, 1827, Ward K. Hammond 

d. 1873 

pd. Hanover, Illinois 

Sophronia Hale was the eldest daughter of Jonathan and Mercy Piper Hale. She was born in her father's ancestral home (shown on page ) in Glastonbury, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River. Her father moved west to Bath, Ohio, in the Summer of 1810, when she was six. She travelled for six weeks to join him later that Fall with her mother, younger sister (Pamelia, 2), brother (William, 4) and two uncles (Jason Hammond and Elijah Hale).

In May of 1827, she married Ward Kingsbury Hammond, living first in a small log cabin then moving to a house Ward K. built south of Hammond Corner. Ward's brother, Royal Hammond, built an identical house next door and lived there with Sophronia's mother-in-law (Roxanna Field). There, she and Ward K. had the following children:

• Emily Pamelia, d. at age sixteen
• Merwin Kingsbury, b. Feb. 24, 1830, see page
• Charles E., d. young
• Julius A., b. April 25, 1833, see page
• Julia Sarah, b. April 25, 1833, see page
• Charles Newell, b. June 25, 1835, see page
• Mercy Jane, b. April 6, 1837, see page
• Edwin O., b. 1838, see page
• Royal Cornelius, b. Oct. 19, 1843, see page
• Orson Ward, b. June 6, 1846, see page

Sophronia and Ward K. Hammond sold the farm and moved the family. First to Delaware, Ohio, where Royal C. and Orson W. were born, then to Jo Daviess County, Illinois. In Jo Daviess Co., the family lived on and worked a rented farm near Galena while Ward Kingsbury worked away from home for a season. Sophronia and the older children farmed and later the family secured land of their own in Hanover Township, one and one-half miles west of the town of Hanover. Sophronia lived there until her death in 1873.