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The Hales and Hammonds were Congregationalists in Connecticut and Bath, Ohio.
Jonathan Hale had a good understanding of music by note and led the church choir. He also played the violin (fiddle).
Andrew Hale, brother of Sophronia Hale, was leading chorister in Bath and Hudson. He was a son of Jonathan Hale and heir to the house and farm of his father in Bath, Ohio. Some members of the family started evangelizing ``among the squatters'' by the river in Bath before leaving Ohio. Ward K. and Sophronia's family all became Methodists at Hanover, Ill., if not before.
The recollections of the Hale and Hammond families in Bath, Ohio by
Eveline Bosworth Cook (see pages
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evangelical perception and witness.
Uncle Samuel Craig Jameson (brother of Mary Eliza) was a faithful Methodist at Hanover, and Orson W. and wife Mary Eliza Jameson were faithful in Tennessee. Paul Jameson, son of Samuel C., studied some to be a preacher and was an active lay preacher at Hanover, Ill.
Royal Hammond (Ontario Ill., brother to Ward K.) was a deacon in the Congregational Church in Bath, Ohio, and was an early deacon of the First Congregational Church in Galesburg, Ill. He may have been a member at Ontario, Ill., for a while as he was buried there. He is said to have been conservative and supported Wheaton College in life and with a bequest in his will at his death.
Julius A. Hammond studied at Knox College, Galesbury, Ill., and one year at ``Northwestern University School of Theology'' for the Methodist ministry. He was Received on Trial in the Rock River Annual Conference (appointed to a charge) for one year, but his health failed him and he gave it up, instead becoming a successful farmer.
Julius married L. Carrie Witt whose father was an Evangelical Association minister in Pennsylvania. She was a school teacher and came to Hanover to teach the higher grades of their school. The Julius and Carrie Witt home was quite strictly old fashioned Methodists and they were leaders in the Methodist Church of Hanover.