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Hammond Ancestors

Section Three

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Clarissa (Clara) Hale was the third of Jane and Andrew Hale's girls. She later married L. H. Ashmum and they had two daughters, Kate M. and Fannie M. Ashmum.

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Sophronia (Fronie) J. Hale was the daughter of Andrew and Jane Hale who married the dashing young entreprenuer Samuel J. Ritchie, who turned into a millionaire in the 1870 - 1890 period, and built a lovely mansion in Akron for his wife and daughter, Clara Bell Ritchie. Sophronia J. Ritchie and her daughter were the ones who gave at Clara Bell's death a million dollars plus the Jonathan Hale Farm to the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1956 to be a teaching museum in remembrance of the work of early Connecticut pioneers in this region.

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Othello W. Hale (b. July 5, 1841, d. Nov. 13, 1906) and first wife Elizabeth Hanson (b. 1839 in England, d. 1876). Othello W. was a child of William Hale and Harriet Carlton. He was a younger brother to Sophronia Hale Hammond. In his later years he became the acknowledged historian of the Hale family and visited Hanover, Galesburg, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Jackson, Tenn., gathering news about the family and recording it. Much of his correspondence is still available at the Western Reserve Historical Society.

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Emily F. Hale was a daughter of James H. Hale (brother to Sophronia). It is noteworthy that O. W. Hammond knew these children of his mother's siblings in Bath, Ohio, while he was in Hanover, Illinois, at the date of receiving the album.

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Veteran Edwin O. Hammond with his wife Adeline Amelia Bostwick (b. Jan. 11, 1848, in Illinois, m. March 13, 1864 in Hanover, Ill.) Edwin was only home on furlough at that time and returned to his 45th Ill. Infantry Regt. a few weeks later. Adeline gave birth to their first child in February 1865 while Edwin was still with the U. S. Army, by that time in a hospital in New York following wounds received Jan. 15, at Pocataligo, S. C, from whence he went by ship to New York.

After the war was over Edwin returned to Hanover, and was discharged as a disabled veteran with a life pension. Nevertheless, he and Adeline bought a farm home in Lena, Stephenson Co., Ill., just east of Stockton, Ill. where his brother Merwin Hammond had settled.

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Lewis Burt was the middle child of five children born to Lucinda Hammond, daughter of Calvin Hammond and Roxana Field Hammond at Fairlee, Vt., in 1801, prior to their move to Bath Township, Medina Co., Ill. in 1814/15. She was a sister to Royal Hammond of Knox Co., Ill. and Ward K. Hammond of Hanover, Ill. Lucinda and John Burt were married in 1824 in Bath Township, Ohio and she died in 1840.

After the death of Lucinda, John Burt moved to Knox Co., Ill., and their family may have influenced the migration of other Hammond relatives to this county. Children of Jason Hammond and Rachel Hale also migrated to Knox Co., Ill., in the 1840's. One of these, Horatio Hammond, had a small genealogy of family ancestors in New England down to his time in Galesburg in 1866 which was among the papers of O. W. Hammond at his death in 1930.

The following photos were not in the photo album, but instead were found among O. W. Hammond papers

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The Julius A. and Carrie Witt Hammond family of Hanover, Ill. Their oldest child Carrie died young, so this would be Luella W., Edna O., Gail and Sophronia Hale (b. 1868), and Merwin O. (b. 1869). This picture was among the sourvenirs of O. W. and Mary Eliza Hammond. The date of this photo is uncertain, but believed to be ca. 1878

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Sophronia Hale Hammond, Mrs. Charles L. Soyster, was the fifth daughter of Julius A. and Carrie Hammond. This picture was found in a memorial booklet published by her husband as a tribute after her death in 1898 in Sheldon, Iowa. Charles Soyster was a wholesale salesman working through North Iowa. They had two children, Merwin H. (b. ca. 1892), and Charles J. (b. ca. 1893).

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Believed to be Prof. C. W. Edwards and Edna O. Hammond, daughter of Julius and Carrie Hammond. He taught music in Minneapolis, to which city Julius Hammond and his wife moved in retirement before their death. Not positively identified.

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