Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons", by Elmer Burns Lammon

General Notes: Ibid. 1910 Houston Co. Alabama Census. Info from sister, Jewett Lammon Moore, via James Edward Moore.

Inez and her husband Henry lived in Miami for years, but retired to Destin, Florida.

--Frances DuBose

"Inez was named for Inez Casey, daughter of Bill Casey, Beatrice's uncle. The Book "Inez" by Augusta J. Evans was popular in the early 1800's and that was where Inez Casey's name originated." ? Jewett Lammon

Inez married William Henry Martin on 6 Jul 1914 in Defuniak Springs, Walton County, Florida. William was born on 1 Nov 1914 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Info from Frances DuBose

Notes:

1880 Dale Co., Alabama Census, Barnes Cross Rd., p. 12, house 106.
1900 Geneva Co., Wright Creek Census, E.D. 72, sheet 26, dwelling 449.
Info via phone from John Duncan Lammon, P.O. Box 696, Jackson, Alabama 36545 (1996) and from Barbara Helland, 855 Mande Court, Shalimar, Fl 32579.
1910 Houston Co. Alabama Census, Wicksburg, Prict. #1, E.D. 131, sheet 7, p. 0615. MSLC #1290911 Geneva Co., Alabama Marriage Index A-Z, 1898-1979, Vol. L to Z White Males.

Daniel McColskey Lammon was educated at Macon Business College (Georgia) for two years where he studied mathematics and surveying. He returned to Alabama and married Beatrice and went into the sawmill business with his father and brothers in Whittaker, Alabama. They then moved the sawmill to Bonifay, Florida where their first child, Ruth, was born. Daniel was an excellent carpenter and constructed three homes for his family. He could entirely design and build houses. He was a bookkeeper and general manager of the Brewton Bargain House (Alabama) for a while. He later bought that business and moved it. He traveled in later years but maintained a more-or-less permanent residence in Graceville, Florida his last 20 years. He died of cancer in Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami on Jan. 22, 1945. He was buried in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, where his daughter, Ruth Lammon Bruner, lived. He was affectionately known as "Papa" to his children and five grandchildren.

--Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff

All of the following are from notes and records of Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff, courtesy of her son Granger:

.... was in partnership in the sawmill and monument business. Then at age 3 weeks, moved by horse and buggy to Brewton, Ala. Furniture was shipped by railroad. Her father went to work as a "lumber tallier". Her mother taught kindergarten school until 1907 when they moved to a farm. Grandma Bailey gave Beatrice as her inheritance in Wicksburg, Ala* some seven miles from Slocomb. Ruth was first educated at home by her mother."

"In the winter of 1907 my mother, father and sister Inez and myself moved from Castleberry Ala. to Wicksburg, Ala., a small crossroad village. We came by train to Slocomb, Ala. and were met by my Grandmother's (Bailey) team of horses and carried out to her Plantation about eight miles north of that saw mill town and spent several weeks with her while my grandmother and father got things in shape for us to move into a long house with stickin-dirt chimney. The house had three rooms and a small porch. Within two years we had one of the finest houses in the community--a two-story home our father built.

Daniel married Beatrice Leonia Bailey on 4 Apr 1900 in Geneva County, Alabama, and was divorced about 1925. Beatrice (daughter of Benjamin Walter Bailey and Jospehene Saphrony Casey) was born on 1 Feb 1880 in Dale County, Alabama; died on 23 Jun 1933 in Slocomb, Geneva County, Alabama; was buried on 24 Jun 1933 in Newton, Dale County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following is taken from notes and records of Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff, via her son Granger:

"Beatrice, oldest of 7 children born to Josephene and Benjamin Bailey, was born in Dale Co., Ozark, Ala. She was educated in Ozark, Ala., where she lived with her favorite aunt, Mrs. Sara Casey Carrol. She was known as "the belle of Ozark" when she graduated in 1898. She taught school near Dothan, Ala. one year. She married Daniel McColskey Lammon, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lammon
of Whittaker, Ala. on April 4, 1900 in Geneva County, Ala. Her wedding dress was green velvet with matching plaid taffeta featuring mutton leg sleeves. She was an excellent seamstress and sewed for many relatives. She played the piano but her main talent was elocution.

Children born of their marriage:
Ruth Beatrice Aug. 2, 1901
Inez Roberta Aug. 5, 1905
Daniel Casey April 16, 1908
Jewett Bell June 3, 1910

Beatrice died in Slocomb, Ala. on June 22, 1933 and was buried in Newton, Ala. beside her grandmother Malisia Cauley Bailey. Her marriage to Daniel had ended in divorce about 1925. She had suffered a heart condition the last 20 years of her life. She worked for the Southeastern Telephone Company, keeping the switchboard in her own home. She was known as "Central" to her customers.

Parents of Beatrice Leonia Bailey:

Josephene Saphrony Casey
Born Aug. 20, 1863
Died Sept. 18, 1949

Benjamin Walter Bailey
Born: Jan 20, 1857
Died Dec.1938

Josephene Casey was the baby of 12 children born to Nancy Norris Cox Casey and Lemuel Casey She was born on the West Fork of Choctawhatchee River in Alabama. She was a very popular young lady and known as one of the prettiest in the county, She was more or less self-educated as schools were open only three months of the year. She read a lot and was the last to sit down at spelling bees and candy pulls. She was only 15 when she married the dashing young playboy Ben Bailey and because she was recovering from typhoid fever she had to use crutches to be married. She and Ben were married at midnight as it took Ben two trips to the county seat to get a license - the first trip he was told to go get family permission for 15-year-old Josephene to marry. So he had to make another trip back to the County Seat with relatives to sign for Josey's marriage. By then it was midnight so with family members present the two were married. They had seven children in 14 years, one of whom died of diphtheria. Their oldest was Beatrice Leonia, mother of Ruth, Inez, Jewett and D.C. Lammon. By the time Josey was 36 her first grandchild, Ruth was born.

Ben Bailey's parents were Malisia Caulay and John L. Bailey who moved from Newton, Georgia, to Newton, Alabama. Ben attended Newton Academy where he studied surveying. Ben had a general store in Wicksburg, Alabama, but went bankrupt in 1895 because his bookkeeper, Mr. Whittaker misappropriated funds. So all the farmlands belonging to Josey and Ben had to be sold. Soon thereafter Casey's three brothers from Ozark, Alabama, Dan, Bill and Charlie Casey came to A1abama and re-bought the bankrupt farmlands for her and made her a free-dealer. Ben was a traveler, an adventurer. He would make a good crop, sell it and take the money and go as far away as it would take him. He once bought 1/3 interest in a railroad company. His system of living seemed based on "drink, talk, and go."

He once went to Mexico and, upon flashing big money around, was robbed of it and even the clothes he had just washed and hung on the line. As a result he stayed in a Mexico jail, waiting for his letter to reach Josephene back in Alabama - and her return letter with money to get him out - to reach Mexico. In the 1905's transportation was slow so it took communications a long time. Josephene sent him money when she finally heard from him but it has been said he walked out one day without paying his jail bond and made his way to the United States and back to Alabama. When he came back he brought a bottle of boll weevils from Texas with him. Josephene seemed to be the backbone that kept the family together. She would oversee the farmlands and handle all the business angles, as she was a very shrewd businesswoman. Ben idolized her and always called her his "Miss Josey. " All of her grandchildren and great grandchildren lovingly called her "Grandma Bailey." Their children were Beatrice, Hershel, Sabie, Rollin, Rudet, and Yancie.

She was blind the last years of her life.

Notes:

Divorced:
I found this note on www.findagrave.com:

"A divorced woman, Beatrice worked as a telephone operator."

Notes:

General Notes: The Lammon Tree by Avis, Irene & Sadie Lammon.
1850, 1860, 1870,1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census.
1910 Escambia Co. Alabama Census, E.D.76.
1900 Dale Co. Alabama Census.
1920 Washington Co. Alabama Census.

B&D-HARTFORD CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS, Geneva Co., Alabama, p. 22. BPAlabama Death Cert., Washington Co. DP-Ibid. Military Records 1861-1865: SLC # 1487288

John Duncan Lammon contributed the following:
"John Lammon was the second son and seventh child of Duncan and Nancy Ann McColskie Lammon. As a young man of twenty-one, hearing that The War Between the States had started, John volunteered and enlisted at Abbeville, Henry Co., Alabama. Private Lammon was assigned to Company B, 6th Alabama Infantry, an early company sent to Virginia and led by General Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee's predecessor. In the Battle of Seven Pines, seven miles from Richmond, Virginia, on May 31, 1862, a two day battle ensued. John's infantry had the great honor of leading the charge against McClellen's northern army of 120,000 men. The battle occurred during heavy rains and muddy fields. John took a bullet in the left groin area. Though he was down, his army pushed on. John found a muddy, water-filled hole that the area pigs had rooted out and crawled in. He stayed there for two days until the plantation people found him. For three months they nursed him back to health. It is said that the muddy water clogged John's wound and prevented him from bleeding to death. When he left, these kind, plantation farmers gave him a blanket. John always talked about that blanket and said that he wanted to find these people and thank them for their kindness and for the blanket. But because John's family was a poor family, he was unable to accomplish his wish. After his recovery, John left to return to his outfit. But his war wound left him with a permanent limp and he couldn't keep up with his unit, so he was sent to Hartford, Alabama, to recruit other soldiers for the South's cause. John was the father of nine children, three of whom died while young. For a living he was a postmaster, a census taker, a tax collector, taught school for a short time, but mostly he farmed. John had beautiful red hair and a long beard. His wife said that she had never seen him clean shaven, because when she met him, he had a beard, and when she died three and one half years before he did, he still had the beard. When John was about 75 years old, the state of Alabama finally approved pensions for all Confederate veterans. When his wife Frances Elizabeth--Lizzy--died in 1919, John purchased, with his pension money, a beautifully imposing 7-foot double cemetery monument in the Hartford cemetery. Three years later, on 15 January 1923, John died and was buried next to his wife of forty-plus years, still carrying the Civil War bullet imbedded in his left groin."

--John Duncan Lammon, P.O. Box 696, Jackson, Alabama 36545 (1996)

[The following is thought to have been written by Franklin Bishop Lammons, the family's earliest known researcher of the family ancestry. -- Elmer Lammon]

From Mark A. Lammon.
John Lammon was born at Barnes Cross Rd., Ala. John served in the Civil War and was wounded in Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia. He returned to Alabama and taught school when he married "Lizzy." Granted Teachers Certificate June 1, 1870 Frances Elisabeth (Lizzy) was raised by her grandmother Highnote in Milton, Fla. until the age of 5 when her father remarried. Her own mother and Frances' twin sister died in August 1852, apparently of an epidemic type illness. John and Frances were married June 16, 1870 by a Methodist minister, Rev. J.W. Parker. They lived near Ozark, Alabama, but later lived from town to town in Alabama as John worked in (operated and owned) sawmills. They had 9 children, six of whom lived. They were Duncan, Daniel, Holcombe, Sanford (Mack) John and Allen.

John and Lizzy Lammon were grandparents of Ruth, Inez, Jewett and D.C. Lammon.

Of historical interest is a copy of the Southeastern Illustrated News, Vol. II, Richmond, Va., Sept. 12, 1863 which is now in the possession of the Holcombe Lammon family. John brought it home from the Civil War with him as it was printed the week he was coming home on furlough.

Parents of Frances Elizabeth McSwain:
Frances McSwain's father was Daniel. He came from Scotland to America when he was 13 with his mother and two brothers. They landed somewhere in North Carolina and made their way down to the Ozark, Ala. area. Daniel married a Miss Highnote of Milton, Fla., and they went to live on his plantation outside of Ozark. He was an inventor, a successful plantation owner with many slaves. He had a gristmill, a general store and a furniture and wagon shop. His mother lived with them and she never mastered the American English dialect.

Parents of John Lammon:
Ann McColskey Duncan Lammon
Born: Sept 29, 1799 Born: 1792
Died: Nov. 14, 1872 Died: Oct-17, 1896
(Buried Post Oak [Methodist] Cemetery N. of Ozark)

They were married in 1825 in Cape Fear, River Valley, N.C . They spent two years in Cherokee County, Ala. on their way down South from N.C. Five of their ten children were born in N.C. and five in Ala. They settled at Barnes Cross Roads near Ozark, Ala. Their children were Sara Ann, Ann, Mary, Martha, Daniel, Mary Ellen, Liza, John, Frances, Carolina and James.

Note:
6th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Regimental Roster lists his middle initial as "L".
LAMMON, John - Brewton, AL; born 11 September 1839, Dale Co., Alabama; PVT; entered service July 1861 at Abbeville, Henry Co., Alabama in Company A, 6th Alabama Regiment. Was wounded at Seven Pines, Virginia. Discharged about a year after being wounded in the valley in Virginia.

John married Frances Elizabeth McSwain on 16 Jun 1870. Frances (daughter of Daniel McSwain and Julianne Highnote) was born on 7 May 1852; died on 7 Jul 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes:
B-1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Census. 1880,1900 Barnes Cross Road, Dale Co., Alabama Census
1910 Alabama Soundex, Escambia Co. Alabama Census: had 9 children, 6 living in 1910.

B&D HARTFORD CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS of Geneva Co. Alabama, p.22. D-Alabama Death Certificate says born 7 Apr 1852.

"Frances (Lizzy) was raised by her grandmother Highnote in Milton, Florida, until the age of 5. Her mother and Frances' twin sister died in August 1852. Her father remarried 5 years later. She was granted a teacher's certificate in Dale County in June 1870. Frances Elizabeth (Lizzy) McSwain's father was Daniel McSwain from Scotland. He landed in North Carolina. He married a Highnote of Milton, FL. His mother came from Scotland with him and never mastered American English. He was an inventor and plantation owner outside Ozark, Ala. Also had a grist mill, General Store and furniture wagon. Was a slave owner."

--Quinton Moore Sherrer

Benjamin married Jospehene Saphrony Casey. Jospehene was born on 20 Aug 1863; died on 18 Sep 1949. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BD-The Lammon Tree by Avis, Irene & Sadie Lammon.
1840 Dale Co. Alabama Census
1850 Dale Co. Alabama Census
1860 Dale Co. Alabama census.
B&D-SLC #0924918 Dale Co. Alabama Cemeteries, p.4
BP-from Jewett Lammon Moore, via James Edward Moore, 6145 Old Bethel Road, Crestview, FL 32536 (1996) M -Jewett Lammon Moore, ibid.

The Duncan Lammon family joined a great number of families in their area of North Carolina in the early 1830's forming a wagon train to seek new territory for themselves. They spent many days and nights on the rugged trails marked only by former travelers who had blazed the way. They spent about two years in what was known as the "Cherokee Nation," the northern section of Georgia and Alabama, and while enroute in this area in 1833, one eventful night they saw the stars fall, which was a phenomenon of that year. They met many friendly Indians, and once while spending a night in an Indian Camp a large pot of hominy was prepared for the travelers. The chief dipped a ladle full and ate first, then served others including the Lammon family. At many of the places where they camped were human bones, so they especially felt thankful for their safety and good treatment. At a junction on the westward route was a trail blazed south, so the Lammon Clan asked their 6-year-old daughter, Annie, to choose the trail for them to follow. She pointed south and after many days of hard travel they settled at a place which became Barnes X Roads, near Ozark, Alabama. Duncan and Ann Lammon are buried in Post Oak Methodist Cemetery between Ozark, Alabama, and Barnes X Roads." --Sadie, Irene, & Avis Lammon.

Duncan married Nancy Ann McCoulskey in 1825 in Cape Fear, River Valley (Wilmington), North Carolina. Nancy (daughter of Duncan McCoulskey and Sarah McCoulskey) was born on 29 Sep 1799 in Clarkton, Bladen County, North Carolina; died on 14 Nov 1872 in Dale County, Alabama; was buried in Dale County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Julianne Highnote on 24 Jul 1847. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]