Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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General Notes: Ibid. Frances DuBose, 769 Linlen, Mobile Alabama, 36609, 205-344-2973 (1996).

Note by Frances Lammon DuBose:

Frances Lammon DuBose

The usual things of school, growing up - learning Spanish while in Nicaragua - forgetting it all when we came home. Also worked at Brookley AFB after graduation. I met Clancy when he was stationed there as a 2nd Lt. new to the Air Force. When a year later he was sent to pilot training, we married and started an air force career. We were stationed in Georgia, Texas, Florida, Hawaii, Alabama, Ohio, Panama Canal Zone, Maine -where he died while still on active duty. When Sheri finished high school in Maine we moved back to Mobile for her to go to college here. I worked various jobs -University -Doctor
-title insurance company, etc. until I decided to 'retire". Since then I have done a lot of volunteer work and have just enjoyed being grandma.

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Frances married Clarence Roosevelt Dubose on 26 Dec 1951 in Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi. Clarence was born on 24 Jun 1928 in Blackville, Barnwell County, South Carolina; died on 4 Oct 1969 in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine; was buried on 8 Oct 1969 in Saint Pauls Episcopal Church Cemetery, Yonges Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sharon Marie Dubose

Notes:

B- 1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Soundex says born in 1896;
1910 Escambia Co. Alabama Soundex says born in 1898.
1920 Washington Co. Alabama Soundex says born in 1897.
Info, via phone from Barbara Lammon Helland, 855 Mande Court, Shalimar, Florida 32579 & John Duncan Lammon, P.O. Box 696, Jackson, Alabama 36545 (both 1996). Info from daughter, Frances Marie DuBose, 769 Linlen, Mobile, Alabama 36609 (1996).

Note by Frances Lammon DuBose:
Allen Lammon was in the army during WWI and was a Sergeant in the Rainbow Division. Sometime after the war he moved to Mobile, Alabama, to work on the Causeway spanning the five rivers that flow into the Mobile Bay making the Eastern Shore more accessible. When that was completed he worked in the lumber industry. He and Gladys married in 1928. Twice during the 30s he went to Nicaragua to cut hardwood out of the jungle for United Fruit who was planting banana plantations. During the war - about 1943 - he got special permission to go to (then) British Honduras to do the same thing. Most of the wartime he spent working on refitting ships at the local shipyard. He built furniture for Waterman Steamship Line when, after the war, their ships were sent back to them. He fitted them again for civilian use. He died in 1948 of a heart attack.

Buried:
According to Frances Lammon DuBose, he died of a heart attack.

Allen married Gladys Marie Davis on 16 Jun 1928 in Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama. Gladys (daughter of Warren Marion Davis and Fannie Verhille) was born on 11 Mar 1902 in Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama; died on 12 Nov 1991 in Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama; was buried in Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A note on www.findagrave.com:

Allen Lammon was her first husband and John R. Boswell was her second husband. Gladys' AL Death Record is listed as Boswell even though Lammon is inscribed on her grave marker.

Info, via phone, from Barbara Lammon Helland, 855 Mande Court, Shalimar, Florida 32579 (1996), and daughter, Frances DuBose, 769 Linlen, Mobile, Alabama 36609, ph. 205-344-2973.

Note by Frances Lammon DuBose:

Gladys Davis Lammon was a "modern career" lady in the 20s and taught herself to type and worked for an insurance company. She had lost her mother at the age of 18 and her father was very supportive of her efforts to improve herself. She moved with her daughter to Nicaragua one of the times Allen was down there, and lived there about a year. During WWI I she worked in civil service at Brookley AF Base retiring in the mid-1960s as a GS 10. After retirement she did a lot of volunteer work and church work.

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

Warren married Fannie Verhille. Fannie was born in 1870; died in 1918. [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]