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THE HAMMOND FAMILY Part 5 Page 41-51 LAURA JANE HAMMOND, daughter of John E. HAMMOND and Roxy HORTON was born 30 August 1874 on a farm near Emmetsburg, Iowa. She moved with her parents to a farm five miles southwest of Nashua, Iowa in 1893. She married George R. HALL 25 December 1897. He was born 11 January 1878 in Nashua, Iowa. Laura Jane died 2 Dec 1952 at the O.E.S Home in Boone, Iowa. She is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Nashua. Laura Jane and George had four children all born near Nashua, Iowa. 1. Marion
Ruth Hall b. 25 Dec 1898
MAUDE LOUISE HAMMOND, daughter of John E. HAMMOND and Roxy HORTON was born 23 June 1903 on a farm near Emmetsburg, Iowa. She married Arthur William FREEBURG 5 Mar 1902 at the old farm near Nashua, Iowa. He was born 22 February 1874, near O'Brien County, Iowa, son of Rudolph and Mary (BEMMENT) FREEBURG. Maude and Arthur settled at Hubbard, Minnesota in a log cabin. Four years later they moved to Portland, Oregon. They moved back to Charles City, Iowa in 1911 and stayed until 1939 when they moved to Nashua, Iowa, where Arthur died 24 August 1943. Maude died 21 February 1958 at Cedar Falls, Iowa. Both are buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Nashua. They had two children. 1. Dorothy
Roxy Freeburg b. 6 Oct 1908 Nashua,
IA SIMON LEE HAMMOND, son of John E. HAMMOND and Roxy HORTON was born 20 June 1882 on a farm near Nashua, Iowa. He married Mary SCHULTZ 18 June 1907 at Nashua. Mary was born 30 January 1888. They had three children all born at Nashua, Iowa. 1. Gale
Hammond b. 16 Jne 1907
ROBERT
ELMORE HAMMOND, son of Simon Lee HAMMOND
and Roxy HORTON
was born 31 August 1885 on a farm near
Emmetsburg,
Iowa. He was a veteran of World War I, serving in the
Heavy
Artillary. He spent most of his life on the farm five miles
west of Nashua, Iowa. Robert never married. He
died 1 May page 42
THE HAMMOND FAMILY EDGAR
DELOS HAMMOND, son of John E. HAMMOND and Roxy HORTON
1. Max
Hammond
b. 28 Jne 1909 FRANK
DAVID HAMMOND, son of John E. HAMMOND and Roxy HORTON
1. Jane
Laura Hammond b. 17 Aug 1928 Nashua, Iowa
FRANK DAVID HAMMOND AND FAMILY  page 43 THE HAMMOND FAMILY FRANK HAMMOND JR., son of Frank HAMMOND Sr., and Luvina FULLER was born 21 April 1892 on the old homestead on section 36, Hamilton township, Gratiot County, Michigan. He married Hazel McFALL 30 June 1927. She was born 20 September 1906 in Detroit, Michigan. Frank went to school in the old log school house the first year it was in use; he was four years old. He went to school through the seventh grade. Frank worked on a farm by the month. He got $16.00 per month plus room and board. On 18 September 1917 he was called into the army. He was in the army one year and eight months; Fourteen months in France including the occupation of Germany. He was discharged 17 May 1919. Frank worked for the Owosso Sugar Company one year. He worked at the Chevrolet and the Buick factories for a time. In 1924 he bought 40 acres of land in Hamilton Township. In 1927 he left the farm and moved to Detroit, Michigan. He worked for the Graham Paige Motor Car Company as a machinist. The factory closed in 1929 and they lost their home in Detroit. In 1930 they moved back to the farm. They bought 31 acres of land nine miles from Battle Creek, Michigan and built a three room house. He built a house car on a 1927 Chevrolet car and made a trip to Missouri. They came back in the fall of 1931 and rented a house in Woodland, Michigan where George was born. They then moved to a farm three miles southeast of Olivet, Michigan. Their home burned a year later and they again lost everything they had. That winter they lived in a small sheet metal building which they had previously used for a cow barn. Their bed was where the manger had been. Here is where Hazel Ruth was born and why they say she was born in a manger. In 1936
he bought a 60 acre farm from the Olivet Bank with
his
Army bonus as a down payment of of
$500.00.
On July 10, 1937 the twins were born. Hazel was sick
that year and had seven operations and has not been well
since
that time. In 1938 the bank sold the contract and later the
people who bought the contract foreclosed on them. They sold the farm
so
as to salvage a little from the deal. In 1939
they
bought forty acres of land without any buildings and worked it into
condition
for operation. He built a house and other buildings on the place where
they now live. page 44
THE HAMMOND FAMILY Frank worked a little over two years at the Albion Malleable Products Company in Albion, Michigan. Frank worked at the Nash Kelvinator Company, in Lansing for about a year. In later years he operated a saw mill at his home besides farming. During
1969 Hazel lost both of her legs through poor circulation and
infection
due to sugar diabetes. She died ________? Frank and Hazel had
seven
children. 1. William
Oliver Hammond b. 18 July 1928 d. 1 Aug
1928 2. Frank
J. Hammond
b. 25 Mar 1929 3. Gordon
A. Hammond b. 15
June 1930 d. 4 Oct 1930 4. George
Francis Hammond b. 17 Dec 1932
5. Hazel Ruth Hammond b. 15 Dec 1934 Born 2 1/2 miles southeast of Olivet, MI 6. Murray
Blane Hammond b. 10 Jly 1937 d. 10
Jly 1937
FRANK AND HAZEL (MCFALL) HAMMOND AND FAMILY  page
45 OLIVER A. HAMMOND, son of Frank HAMMOND SR. and Luvina FULLER was born 12 Mar 1895 on the old homestead eight miles north of Elsie, Michigan. He married Florence Mildred KILPATRICK on 8 June 1919 at her parents home near Woodland, Michigan. Florence always went by Mildred. The minister was Rev. E.G. LYON, pastor of Kilpatrick United Brethren Church. It was a double wedding ceremony with his sister Minerva HAMMOND marrying James W.L. HARRIS, son of Alexander R. HARRIS and Mary Catherine LARKINS. Florence was born 16 Dec 1900, daughter of Andrew C. KILPATRICK and Nancy (PRIEST) KILPATRICK. Andrew's parents were born in Scotland. Oliver went the first five grades of school in the old log school house. He was tranferred to the McQuiston school across the county line into Saginaw County. He finnished the ninth grade in St. Louis, Michigan. He quit school then and went to work on a farm eight miles north of Elsie, Michigan. He worked here up until 1915. During
the spring of 1916 he went to work for the Woolman Construction
Company
digging drains with a dredge for the county. He worked on
the
dredge until being drafted into the army 20 Nov 1917. He served
thirteen
months in France and the For the
next three years he worked for A.C. Davis operating a dredge
in
Clinton County, Michigan. In November 1922 they
moved
to Battle Creek, Michigan where he
worked as a carpenter. Oliver worked a
year
and a half on the Veterans On
July 26, 1926 he started working for the
Grand Trunk Western Railroad as a
Machinist
in the shop where they repaired locomotives. He worked
there
for 33 years and eight months retiring 12 March 1960 at the age of 65
years.
At the time of When they moved to Battle Creek in 1922 there was no United Brethren church in the town. After several years of attending different churches, they joined the Church of the Brethern. In 1936 they were elected as Deacons and served in that capacity since that day. They had one daughter. 1. Ardith
N. Hammond b. 2 May 1924
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OLIVER A HAMMOND
1916
FLORENCE M. HAMMOND 
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT  page 47 
OLIVER,
MILDRED, and Ardith HAMMOND
LESTER
HAMMOND, son of Frank HAMMOND SR, and Luvina FULLER
was
born 21 July 1897 on the old
homestead
near Elsie, Michigan. He married Goldie BUCHOLZ 26
September
1918. She was born 6 August 1900 daughter of Catherine Jeanette
(Nettie)
NETZLEY and Clyde HILL. She was adopted by Charles BUCHOLZ when he married Catherine J. NETZLEY. Picture
of Charles and Nettie Pictures
of Nettie and Goldie, etc
Baby
Picture of Goldie Lester
worked for A.C. Davis on a dredge. He then built up a wrecking
yard in Fenmore, Michigan. He went to Arkansas 1936 and from
there he went to Oklahoma and on to Salida, California where he
remained
the rest of his life.
I was told that no one in the family knew he was leaving, not even his
oldest daughter, Wava who was just recently married. Every time
this writer sees the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" based on
the book by the
great John Steinbeck, I think of my grandfather and their trip west in
the 1930s. The trip must have been like the story in the
"The Grapes of Wrath" except Lester was not an "Okie". Traveling to
California in the 1930s with ten
kids in an automobile of that era took a
sturdy couple. In the early 1940s Goldie became ill and Lester sent her
back to Michigan. She was a tiny woman,
yet she bore him eleven children. Goldie
died in Strongs, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula on 4 April 1945 and is
buried in the Ford
Cemetery
two miles north of Elsie, Michigan on the corner of Ridge road.
The death
certificate says cause of death was from a coronary thrombosis, but
many people (including me) think she died of a broken heart. The
death certificate
says she was 43 years, 8 months and 14 days old and was listed as a
housekeeper. The death certificate says she was the daughter of
Charles
Hill but we know she was the daughter of Clyde Hill. Lester returned to Michigan twice; once for a visit with his
relatives and daughter Wava Boyd in 1952 and again in 1973 to
attend his brother Frank Hammond's
funeral.
I remember when he visited in 1952. I was ten. Lester died
in
1974 in California. 
Lester
and Goldie Bucholz Hammond 1919 Lester married 2nd on 11 April 1949, Addie Mae RICHARDS in Reno, Nevada. She was born in Charlestown, Mississippi 29 Aug 1915 daughter of John RICHARDS and Minnie WALKER. She had children by a previous marriage. Lester and Addie Mae were guardians of two girls: Betty Arrl JAMES, born 24 Mar 1938 and Bonnie Jean JAMES, born in 1940. Addie Mae had a child by a previous marriage; John Edward DAVIS, born 29 Jan 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. Lester
and Goldie had eleven children all born in Gratiot County,
Ashley, Michigan. None of the children ever had birth
certificates. Lester never called the doctor after the births and
the births were not recorded. All these children had a devil of a
time getting births certificates. Some* of the birthdates below
were taken from an affidavit signed by Lester Hammond on 16th day of
March, 1948. I remember taking my mother Wava to the courthouse
in Ithaca in the 1950s in order to get her birth certificate. Click
Here: Pictures taken when
Lester came to Michigan in 1952 2. Bernard Lee Hammond b. 30 Aug 1921 d. 3. Viola Esther Hammond b. 10 Sep 1923 4. Leonard Hammond b. 13 Nov 1926 5. Eleen Hammond b. 10 Dec 1927 d. 23 Aug 1980 and is buried at the Falls City Cemetery. 6. Maxine Hammond (twin) b. 2 Jan 1929 7. Max Carl Hammond (twin) b. 2 Jan 1929 d. 8. Betty Lou Hammond b. 18 May 1931 9. Shirley Mae Hammond* b. 26 Sep 1933 10. Harold Dean Hammond* b. 29 Dec 1934 d. 21 Feb 2009 11. Ruth Hammond* b. 8 Nov 1936 Click
Here for photos: Lester, Ruth, Leonard,
Harold Hammond , etc LESTER HAMMOND 1940's page 49 
CHESTER
HAMMOND, son of Frank HAMMOND SR., and Luvina FULLER
was
born 15 March 1899 on the old Hammond Homestead
near Elsie, Michigan. He married Myrtle BUCHOLZ in 1921.
She
was born 21 January 1906, in Darke County, Ohio daughter of
Charles BUCHOLZ and Catherine Jeanette NETZLEY. Chester
died 26 May 1979
and Myrtle died 25 december 1986 in Owosso, Michigan. They are
buried
in Ford Cemetery on Ridge Road near Elsie, Michigan.
Chester and Myrtle Bucholz Hammond  <> Page 50 THE HAMMOND FAMILY Chester bought a farm east of Elsie, Michigan which he farmed for many years. Later he went to work in Owosso but lived his entire life on the farm located at 8657 Huff Road, Elsie, MI. Chester and Myrtle had four children. 1. Virgal
Hammond b. 3 Aug
1923
d. 14 June 1943 2. Opal
Betty Hammond b. 24 June 1924 Sandra
was the daughter of Cecil Hammond and Jennie (Vanetti) Hammond. Jennie
died at Sandra's birth and Chester and Myrtle took Sandra
into
their home and raised her as their own child.
VIRGAL HAMMOND
1942
OPAL BETTY HAMMOND  page 51
JAMES W.L. HARRIS and MINERVA (HAMMOND) HARRIS 
A DOUBLE WEDDING CEREMONY - JAMES W.L. HARRIS MINERVA
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