Julia Sarah Hammond


		b. April 25, 1833 

bp. Hammond's Corner, Summit Co., Ohio 

m. September 22 1849, Sereno Dwight Edgerton 

d. ?

Julia Sarah Hammond Edgerton (twin to Julius A.) was the second girl born to Ward K. Hammond and Sophronia Hale. Julia was thirteen by the time the family moved to Hanover in 1846 and was good help around the home and farm. After her public school education she married Sereno Dwight Edgerton.

Dwight Edgerton went to California during the Gold Rush soon after they were married, leaving Julia at home with his family. He was gone for eighteen months. Dwight later became a prosperous farmer near Hanover and they reared seven children. A public school named Edgerton was organized in 1848 where Edgerton, Jameson and Hammond children studied. Their children were:

Metta V., m. G. W. Abbott
Frederick H., b. June 9, 1854, m. Matilda Irwin, d. August 5, 1924
Clara S., m. John Lister
Charles Hammond, b. April 25, 1859, m. Jennie Harper, d. February 10, 1939
Elsie G., b. February 1, 1864, m. Elbert D. Norton, d. November 17, 1893
Minna, b. 1871, m. Ben May, d. 1924
William, d. in infancy

**Figure 2.13:** Metta V. Edgerton Abbott

Metta V. Edgerton was the oldest child of Julia S. Hammond and S. D. Edgerton and by 1868 taught in the Edgerton Public School. She married Rev. G. W. Abbott, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Wymore, Nebraska. They later lived in Iowa but kept in touch with relatives in Hanover.

**Figure 2.14:** Clara Edgerton Lister

**Figure 2.15:** Frederick Edgerton