Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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General Notes: Info from self via phone (1996). John retired after a career in the US Postal Service. One of his passions was The War Between the States, on which subject he had an extensive library. He was a member of Sons of the Confederacy, having descended directly from a Confederate veteran, John Lammon. Another hobby of John's was the family ancestry. (See notes for John Lammon, for example.) Blessed with a very good memory, he remembered stories about the family that had been passed down from one generation to the next since the family left Scotland. He served in the US Navy. John Duncan, never having gotten a college education, was rightly proud of having put each of his three sons through college.
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From "Alabama Obituary and Death Notice Collection" at www.genealogybuff.com

Lammon

John Duncan Lammon, 73, of Jackson died March 27, 2005 at his residence after a long bout with heart and Parkinson?s disease.

He was a long time member of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in Walker Springs. He was a four-year veteran of the United States Navy having served in Korea. He was retired from the United States Postal Service after 32 years of service. He was a member of the Santa Fe Lodge #226 in Jackson. He was a member of the Scottish Rite in Mobile. He was member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the grandson and namesake of a Confederate veteran.

Survivors include his wife, Melanie Lammon, Jackson; two sons, Dwight Lammons, Coker, Dan Lammon, Birmingham; five grandsons.

The service was held March 30 at 2 p.m. in the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church. Burial was in the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church Cemetery in Walker Springs. Lathan Funeral Home of Jackson directed.

Active pallbearers were Daniel P. Lammon, David H. Lammon, Scott Lammon, Eddie Pezent, Ronnie Moore and Earl King.

Honorary pallbearers were Pee Wee Hoven, Marion Wilson, Willard Bayles, Lem Finney, Tommy Windham, Kenneth Autry, Willard Nichols, John D. Gill, John D. Purvis, Infirmary Hospice Nurses, Gay Walker, Michelle Wilson and Kim Adams.

Died:
According to his obituary, he died after a long bout with heart and Parkinson's disease.

John married Julaine Pearson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dwight Duncan Lammon
2. John Daniel Lammon
3. William Patrick Lammon was born on 22 Jan 1960 in Miami, Dade County, Florida; died on 6 Feb 1987 in Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama; was buried in Mount Gilead Cemetery, Clarke County, Alabama.

John married Willie Joyce Stephens on 24 May 1980. Willie was born on 19 Mar 1942; died on 27 Jul 1982. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Tommy Jack Steven Lammon was born on 21 Feb 1964; died on 17 Aug 1985; was buried in Mount Gilead Cemetery, Walker Springs, Clarke County, Alabama.
2. Teresa Anne Stevens Lammon was born on 4 Dec 1961.

John married Melanie Vick [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Soundex.
1910 Escambia Co. Alabama Soundex.
1920 Washington Co. Alabama Soundex.

Personal knowledge, via phone, of son, John Duncan Lammon, P.O. Box 696, Jackson, Alabama 36545 (1996).

B&D-Mt. Gilead Cemetery, Walker Springs, Clark County, Alabama via Internet:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clarke/cemetery/mountgil.txt

B&D-Social Security Death Index.


Sanford Mack Lammon married late in life. He and his wife Bessie held hands and showed their affection for one another all their married life. Sanford was a very humble, kind man. Some of his friends called him "Job. "

--John Duncan Lammon.
SS# 423-05-8934


The following is transcribed from a handwritten letter of Sanford "Mack" Lammon. I think the letter was written to John Holcombe Lammon or Walter Lee Lammon, who lived in Columbus, Georgia (location to which he refers near the end of the letter.) - EBL

Allen, Ala.
Sunday April 18th [year 1954 can be deduced from information in the letter - EBL]

Dear Cousin:
Your letter of the 10th came a few days ago and I was sure surprised but it a pleasant surprise, yes I remember you well. I knew Duncan was dead but I had not heard about Fred and Flaudy. I was in Hartford in '48 and saw Carl [Carol Ann Lammon was called "Carl" - EBL] and Duncan but didn't have but a short time to be with them, and haven't heard much of the family since.

Now I will try and give you a little family history. I don't know too much about my Great Grandad but he came from Scotland, and settled in North Carolina and my Grandad was born in N.C. in 1792 and moved to Alabama about 1833, or '4. They were on their way and camping out the night the stars fell. Aunt Sara and Aunt Annie, the two oldest children, could remember it and I have heard them tell about it.

Yes, my father and Duncan's father were brothers and their father was named Duncan and his wife was Ann McColskie. Grandfather had a brother named Daniel, or Dock. And his wife was Aunt Isabella. Don't know her maiden name. This Col. Frank Lammon and Monroe Lammon are first cousins, and grandsons of Uncle Daniel, and Aunt Isabella Lammon.

Now for the name, Col. Frank Lammons put the "s" to it and wanted to know how come my branch of the family to leave it off? Well I was wondering how he got it on. My father, and Uncle Jim never used it, and all the records of the family I have, spell it Lammon and if you will visit Post Oak Cemetary you will find all the old generations' graves dating back to about the Civil War and there is no "s" to the name on the tombstones. Sometimes when you go by Ozark and Post Oak is about six miles North on the Montgomery Highway, go by and visit these old graves.

Now for my family. My wife was Bessie Moore. We married in 1926, have one child, a son, 22. His name is John Duncan, he is in the Navy, he enlisted Sept. 1, 1950 for four years and the enlistment was cut two months so he is getting out July 1st. He is aboard the USS Saufley, a destroyer, and based at Key West, Fla. When he gets home we plan to do a little running around and will probly go see the folks in Columbus. And if we have time we would sure like to see you. Would be glad to have you visit us sometime.

Mack
S.M. Lammon

Sanford married Bessie Ann Moore on 19 Dec 1926 in Jackson, Clarke County, Alabama. Bessie was born on 7 Oct 1898; died on 23 Oct 1963 in Walker Springs, Clarke County, Alabama; was buried in Mount Gilead Cemetery, Clarke County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Info from son, John Duncan Lammon.
B&D-Social Security Death Index.
B&D- Cemetery records of Mt Gilead Cemetery, Walker Springs, Clark Co., Alabama via Internet, 20 July 1998: http://ftp.
rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clarke/cemetery/mountgil.txt
SS# 424-30-0743

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

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]