Notes:

General Notes: The Lammon Tree & Jane Linton. 1900 Alabama Soundex B&DSocial Security Death Index.

Irene graduated from Geneva County High School in 1916 and was valedictorian of her class.

(The following is a transcription of handwritten notes to your editor by his Aunt Irene.)

Edward Louis Lamont of Lamont Argylshire, Scotland, the 22nd Chieftain of the Clan Lamont-which we belong to. The Treasurer of the Clan wrote me from Scotland that Lammon is one of the original clan names--and he thinks goes back further than the actual name Lamont. The clan history goes back to about the year 1230 AD. I haven't been able to get all I want yet and don't know if I ever can.

Duncan Lammon was Grandpa Lammon's father. Their father (Duncan's & Daniel's) came from Scotland, settled in N.C. He (Duncan) married Ann McColsky. They came to Alabama (the) year stars fell 1833--settled awhile in N. Alabama--then South to Dale County -- often saw Indians and many bones bleaching (horses and men.) Children (were) horrified (Grandpa Lammon cites). Aunt Annie (Omar Barnes grandmother -- only 6 at that time -- she pointed out a road to go that landed them at Barnes X-roads. Once spent a night in Cherokee country near Indian camp -- Indians fixed large pot of hominy and began to pass to them in a large spoon. They were frightened to death but afraid not to eat.

Mama's Side
Grandma Griffith was a Washington -- moved to U.S. from Wales -- settled in N.C. Don't know date of her birth but Grandpa's -- Aug 7, 1784 (on chart) -- came to US about 1800. Grandpa O.H. Griffith was an Irishman whose parents had come to States, also. After they were married they settled in Cuthbert, Ga. -- had 6 children. Grandma Atkinson was the oldest. Her mother dying when she was 15 and all responsibility of family fell on her. She married William Maldre Atkinson of Greensboro, Georgia. His parent(s) came to U.S. from Ireland when he was very young. They were married about 1847. There were 7 children. (They) lived in Cuthbert several years. Grandma Fields was oldest -- born March 4, 1848. At age 23 she married Alexander Clayton Fields. His parents were from Darlington District, S.C. His family came and settled about 3 miles SW of Ozark in 1825 (Matthews-Mother's side). There were 8 children. (Grandpa Fields was an only child). His father died when he was just walking and is buried in old family plot in an unmarked grave -- in what is now a Negro cemetery. In those days slaves were buried in one part of the cemetery and whites in other. Grandsir Moses was a large slave owner and when grandma Sinia married he gave her 2 slaves, Mary and her daughter Piety. When grandma was dying - in 1888 - they sent for Old Mary, who sat beside her & fanned her till she died. She is buried in Ozark. Grandma Sinia had a section of land - but her brothers got most of it, as she had to sell bit by bit to live. Old Claybank Church and grounds were given by her brother Elisha Matthews.

The following is a transcription of a videotaped interview. Son Harold is interviewing Irene:
INTERVIEW OF IRENE HARDWICK BY HER SON, HAROLD
DATE: about 1985 or 1986 PLACE: Dothan, Alabama ______________________________
Transcribed by: SHARON M. STILL (McALLISTER) Court Reporter
INTERVIEW

HAROLD: Just start way back. Where did you meet Dad and where was it and what happened? When is the first time you saw him?
AUNT IRENE: The first time I remember seeing Dad was when we were holding our... it was before we held a meeting at Barnes' Crossroads there in Hartford, he was there and my brother Jessup was there and they had what they call kind of a study course, you know.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: About studying the Bible, and Dad was there along with two... well, the Holloway boy and three or four others, younger people our age.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: And, so it was there that we first saw him. And, we had an ex-Missionary named brother Massey from India and he was going to hold a revival meeting under a brush arbor at Barnes' Crossroads. And, that was our Uncle's house, Uncle Jake Barnes.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: And, he wanted... they wanted Sister and me to come up there and help with the music and sing, and so that... Bill was there to help with that meeting and that's when I first really got acquainted with him.
HAROLD: Right.
AUNT IRENE: I met him before then.
HAROLD: How did y'all get together?
AUNT IRENE: Well, we... first time I ever walked home with him we were all staying at Uncle Jake Barnes, he had a big old house and Sister and me were staying there and so was Brother Massey and Bill.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: And, they... we were walking home from the church and he walked with me and Clarence Barnes, one of the boys, walked up and... in front of us, we were walking towards him and he made a picture of us walking along together.
HAROLD: All right, you still got it?
AUNT IRENE: Yes, I got that picture.
HAROLD: I'd like to see that.
AUNT IRENE: And, that was the... we were just walking along and he made the picture and he developed them, Mr. Barnes did that work himself, he just had trained himself. Anyhow, he gave me one of the snaps, because after that meeting was over I didn't see Bill again for along time. In fact, we didn't get... well, we was just together that... and so, Clarence gave me the picture and said, "Do you know how to contact that man, do you know his address? Bill's address?" And, I said, "Yes, he lives at Erika." And, he said, "Well, you send him this picture." And, so I wrote him a note and told him that Clarence said for me to send him that picture." Years after that, after we were married Bill said that he knew as soon as he got that picture, said I was going to be his wife, because he had prayed that the Lord would let the one that he chose for him to write to him first.
HAROLD: Hum.
AUNT IRENE: And, I had written first. Of course, I didn't know it until after we were married.
HAROLD: When did he get around to asking you?
AUNT IRENE: Well, that was in 1915 and he didn't ask me until about 19? well, it must have been the last part of 1917. I still got the letter that said "Will you marry me?" We got married, you know, in 1918.
HAROLD: What did your Daddy say?
AUNT IRENE: He asked for my hand and Pappa said, "No", said, "You're a Preacher and I want my--- you're a Holiness Preacher and I want my daughter to have a home." And said, "A Preacher never has one."
HAROLD: Well, after y'all... after you got married, what did you do then?
AUNT IRENE: He was happy, because when Pappa died, which was in 1925 he called all of us in to tell us that he wanted us to meet him in heaven, that he was ready to go and Bill was there too, and he said, "Bill, you've been a real son to me and I'm proud of you." So, he was well pleased after it all went past.
HAROLD: Where did y'all Pastor then, or how did you... what did you do then?
AUNT IRENE: Well---
HAROLD: Did y'all Preach or---?
AUNT IRENE: To begin with we just held camp meetings everywhere. We just... the first meeting we held was in New Brockton. You know, he lived out... they lived out in the country.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: But, we... the first meeting we held was one week after we were married. We went there and stayed in the home of Mr. Sawyer, Toliver Sawyer, and put up camp. Bill had a camp and held a camp meeting there, and that was the first meeting we held right there in New Brockton.
HAROLD: Didn't y'all do a lot of walking?
AUNT IRENE: We walked all the time.
HAROLD: I mean you'd go to meetings and walk several miles to get there?
AUNT IRENE: Yes, that's the truth. Well, from there we went to another place, it was a chapel and held one. And, then went to Enterprise and put up the tent and a storm came, blew the tent down and tore it and we had to go back and stay at ______________(Berna Hardwick's) and patch the tent before we held another meeting.
HAROLD: Well, just go on with it. I'd like to hear the whole... where did you go next and what did you do?
AUNT IRENE: Well, from Enterprise we went down in Florida and we held meetings at Holt, Holt, Florida. And, then all around through Alabama, wherever we could go. We went to -- Campbelton at one time and held a meeting and had the tent right close to the jail, and Bill was preaching and his... I don't even know what he was preaching about, but anyhow, there was somebody at the jail that was listening and hollered out and said "Amen". And, Dad said, "Now, you see, somebody knows what the truth is, although they may not have lived it." And, then from there we went to another place, I wish I could think of the name of it. They've never had a meeting there before and now they have... we held a tent meeting there. It was at the same... at the home of a Preacher who was Brother Lee and we went and stayed at his father-in-law's... and with his father-in- law's family.
HAROLD: Now, what---?
AUNT IRENE: We had other meetings there.
HAROLD: Now, when was James born in this go 'round?
AUNT IRENE: In this... let me think.
HAROLD: You wound up in Hartford somehow.
AUNT IRENE: After we were expecting James we went to Hartford. Someone got... I forgot now who carried us. Sister... Sister Herbert went up to the Hartman's place in Albethem and brought us down there, but... so James could be born in Hartford. And, he... Brother Dan Dubois and she, his wife was Bill's sister, and we then
stayed at their house and James was born there on January the 9th, 1919.
HAROLD: January?
AUNT IRENE: February.
HAROLD: February? No.
AUNT IRENE: April. Why didn't you let me make notes? That's awful, because that's when the first one was born. And, Brother Dan's wife, we called her "Sis", and James was born April the 9th, and that little girl, Meriam, was born April the 11th in the same house there in the parsonage at Hartford.
HAROLD: Hartford. And, then what did you do? Where did y'all go then?
AUNT IRENE: Well, after we went back and stayed with his parents for a while, and then started back in the revival work then. In 1922 they... no, in 1920 we went to Hartford and Pastored the church and in 1922 the District Council was held in Slocomb, Alabama and Bill was elected Superintendent of the District, which then included Alabama, Georgia and Florida. And, then after that... he was elected there, he resigned the church in Hartford, and then visited churches all over the State, all over the District except churches down in Florida. Anyway, they had not been set in order, although they were together, they had not been organized as the Assemblies of God. They were just, you know, free and so it was after that that we visited all of the churches in Alabama, Georgia and Florida. And, I can't tell how many were organized at that time, but yes, we kept busy doing that. But, in 1927 he went to---
HAROLD: You skipped the year of ____________________. (PAUSE) What happened in 1926 that kind of shook the whole world?
AUNT IRENE: Well, now, I was going to get to that. And, that's when... I'm still not sure---
HAROLD: You left me slam out.
AUNT IRENE: In 1925... I told you that was the year that Papa died. In 1926---
HAROLD: February, okay. 18th.
AUNT IRENE: We was living in Dothan at that time. We had a room of two apartments in the town and Alto and Bradley Cains lived on one side and we lived on the other. It was there that Harold came.
HAROLD: Yes, now, you got through.
AUNT IRENE: That's the truth, and that was... that was on the 18th, 1926, and James was praying here for Harold to be born and for James to go to start his school, and he set the church in order here in Dothan at that time. I believe it was in December 1926 the church was set in order, 1925. And, then in February Harold was born, and James came in from school that afternoon and Dad was showing him the baby on the bed and he propped his fingers up and looked at him and he would look at Dad and he'd look at me, and finally he looked at Dad and said, "Is he ours?" and he said, "Yes, he's ours." And, he'd look at the baby again and then he said, "Is he really ours?" And, I thought he was---
HAROLD: Get in awe of me?
AUNT IRENE: I didn't really, but both times, but he seemed to--- (inaudible) and make it come true and real that we were going to have a little boy, another little boy.
HAROLD: Where did y'all move after you left Dothan?
AUNT IRENE: After we went from there from Dothan we went to Pensacola.
HAROLD: That was when you and I were in a storm and Dad was gone?
AUNT IRENE: Yes, that was in 1927, the storm... I've forgotten the name of it. Do you remember the name of it?
HAROLD: No, I don't.
AUNT IRENE: They call them, you know, by names. But, anyhow, it was after that storm and everybody was... couldn't get out and walk for it blowing--- for a safe place to stay, but we... you and James was there with me and Dad was across the river at a place... I can't say the name of that. This side of Pensacola though. He had gone over there to organize a church and we weren't with him and the storm came while he was gone. And, he was trying to get home and he got to the river and he couldn't get across because the storm had blown the bridge down, and they... the people that were walking along there with him trying to get out, you know, in a safer area found out he was trying to get on to his side and they said, "Well, Pensacola is already lost, said it's swept. Things have just gone out." Well, the people in Pensacola were disturbed so until they would get out and went to town to try to find a safe place as much as they could, and we could watch them as they passed us. We stayed home, because I had the two little boys and Avis was there helping me take care of them, but no damage was done to our place when he came in.
HAROLD: And, he walked on across that bridge?
AUNT IRENE: He walked across that bridge that had swept down, and then hitched a ride as far as he could along... wasn't much riding done, but he came all the way home and found us safe. So, that was 1927.
HAROLD: And, then where did you go to?
AUNT IRENE: From there we moved to Laurel, Mississippi. And, the Knowles, Brother and Sister Knowles were Pastoring in Mississippi and they got us to come there, in fact, they presented Dad's name and they called him at Laurel and we moved there in 1927. Well, then from there we moved to Hattesburg in 1929. Then, in 1934, I believe it was, we moved to---
HAROLD: Siloam Springs?
AUNT IRENE: Siloam Springs, Arkansas where we Pastored two years. I don't remember just how long. And, then we went from Siloam to when he went back to Savannah.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: We were in Savannah two or three years. I can't remember exactly the dates, and then back to Arkansas.
HAROLD: Paris.
AUNT IRENE: Paris. And, then Paris, there was... we stayed there four or five years. And, from Paris we went to, was it Omaha?
HAROLD: No, you moved to Franklin.
AUNT IRENE: We moved to Franklin. I got my years mixed up. Then we moved to Franklin, which was up in the Ozark Mountains and a wonderful place to live.
HAROLD: Time out.
AUNT IRENE: Go on. We went---
HAROLD: Now, James... James got married---
AUNT IRENE: In 1943.
HAROLD: In Paris.
AUNT IRENE: We lived in Paris, and he married gospel... __________Palmer.
HAROLD: Yes. And, then you left Franklin?
AUNT IRENE: Yes.
HAROLD: And, then you went to Monticello?
AUNT IRENE: Monticello.
HAROLD: And, then from Monticello where did you go?
AUNT IRENE: Let me see...
HAROLD: Did you retire?
AUNT IRENE: Huh?
HAROLD: Did you just quit and retire?
AUNT IRENE: No, you know we came down and... I know, we moved---
HAROLD: New Brockton?
AUNT IRENE: From Monticello we came down and lived at the Barnes Crossroads.
HAROLD: Yes, retired.
AUNT IRENE: And, you came and brought Eva one---
HAROLD: No, James came down with Marice and brought Eva.
AUNT IRENE: Yes. Came down and visited and then we accepted... he accepted the church in New Brockton.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: And, we moved to New Brockton, they had a parsonage and we lived there in it. And, from there---
HAROLD: Up to Huntsville.
AUNT IRENE: We moved to Huntsville, Alabama. And, you and Eva got married while we were living in New Brockton here.
HAROLD: No, I think it was Barnes Crossroads, because y'all came up---
AUNT IRENE: Yes, we went up there.
HAROLD: Might have been.
AUNT IRENE: We were still pastoring New Brockton.
HAROLD: And, then from Huntsville you went to... back to New Brockton, didn't you?
AUNT IRENE: Back to New Brockton.
HAROLD: And, then to Andalusia.
AUNT IRENE: And, from Huntsville we went to Andalusia---
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: And stayed with Avis two years and helped her with that... her business there for a while.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: And, then moved back to Dothan and pastored at New Brockton.
HAROLD: How in the world did you manage to get back to Dothan?
AUNT IRENE: Let me think. Well, after we left... where did we go then?
HAROLD: You couldn't find a house so we couldn't stay with you a lot.
AUNT IRENE: We did too... when you were in that two-story building---
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: ---up there. I tried my best to figure out how that was. That was back in Huntsville.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: That's the truth. And, then we found this house over here.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: And, Dad traded for it, and then when that one became empty, 1,500.00, he traded for it in swaps. Left you out of this one when we moved over there. Oh, Lord, that was back in 196---
HAROLD: '61.
AUNT IRENE: 1960 we moved over there.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: In 1958 we come over here to your place.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: And, then lived here in your... where this house is.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: Two years and then moved over there in 1960. And, that has been twenty-two years ago.
HAROLD: Yes.
AUNT IRENE: And, I'm so proud of my family that's all here today. Isn't that wonderful, all these children, grandchildren, great grandchildren. And, I'm still here.
HAROLD: And, if you want to tell your great grandchildren something, one thing, what would it be, knowing you and Dad?
AUNT IRENE: Well, tell them listen to your Dad and Mother and obey them and follow the Lord all the way to the end of the road so we'll all be in heaven together some day.
HAROLD: Right, Amen. All right.
AUNT IRENE: Not only the great grandchildren, the children and grandchildren. Everyone. We must be an unbreakable family, wouldn't that be glorious?
HAROLD: Uh huh (yes).
AUNT IRENE: Yes, it's possible. My mother used to say that she had asked the Lord for each one of her children, the Lord had promised her---
HAROLD: I appreciate you.
AUNT IRENE: I'm sorry I didn't do better.
HAROLD: Shoot. I think you did great.


Note from Rosemary Rigby:
Great Aunt Irene
I remember Aunt Irene as always being happy. One of my favorite things to do was tickle her. She would begin giggling and squirming around before you ever touched her! She loved to have fun. I remember going to her house for reunions and how welcome I always felt. She made the most delicious 7-layer chocolate cake you ever put in your mouth!

Irene married William Files Hardwick on 14 Mar 1918 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. William was born on 1 Mar 1887; died on 27 Nov 1966. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James William Hardwick was born on 9 Apr 1919 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama, US.
2. Harold Lamar Hardwick was born on 18 Feb 1926 in Dothan, Houston County Alabama, US; died on 22 Nov 1998; was buried on 25 Nov 1998 in Memory Hill Cemetery, Dothan, Houston County, Alabama.

Notes:

The Lammon Tree 1900 Soundex
"Edward Barnes Lammon met Alice O'Keith Fields on his birthday February 2, 1893, when she went with one of his cousins, Lizzie Smith, to visit him as he was sick with typhoid fever. He made the remark that day that, "This girl will be my wife"--and it happened two years later. "
--Sadie Lammon Johnson
--Irene Lammon Hardwick
--Avis Lammon Atkinson

The following is part of a taped interview with Avis Lammon in 1988. Present at the interview were Avis Lammon Atkinson, Nancy Lammon Tuck, Ann Lammon Day, Joseph Edward Lammon. - EBL
AVIS: Elmer came home. Elmer came home from the Navy. I think this is right interesting, too. Elmer was in the Navy when Papa was real ill, fixing to die. And we knew that he was going to die. So, Mama tried every way she knew -- all of us did -- to get in touch with Elmer's commanding officer or whatever he was. And the last letter we had from Elmer he had come from the Pacific side of the United States over to the Atlantic side. And we couldn't seem to get in touch with him. So, Elmer called one day on the telephone, and he was in Jacksonville, Florida, when he called, and said, I haven't heard -- he said, well, I haven't written y'all in a long time. He said, since I'm this near home, I wanted to let you know I was here. And so Mama told him about Papa being so ill. And ? they let him out of the Navy, and he didn't have to go back. His time was so near out, they just dismissed him then. So, he came on home, and Papa died just a few days after Elmer got home. That was in -- I declare. Let's see. I need that book, don't I?
NANCY: I believe it was '24.
ANN: About '24 because Daddy was about fourteen.
NANCY: I think it was '24 or '25.
ANN: Tell us about when Granddaddy died, how he talked to all of y'all. He called each one of you in.
AVIS: Yeah. Papa never had accepted the Lord, never had professed to have any kind of salvation. And when people would talk about -- about him getting religion or whatever, he'd say, I got to stay out and fight for the family. These women got to have it, he said. And I don't want nobody talking about them, so I'll fight for them. So, after he got sick, well, he told Sadie one day -- Sadie had got to be around a preacher. So, he told her one day, he said, Sadie, tell me how to accept the Lord. I know I'm not going to live. So, she told him how to submit hisself to the Lord. And so then, after that, Grandma Lammon was in our house -- his mother. And he called her in the room and told her, said, Mama, I'm a Christian now. I've given up all this, and I'm telling the Lord about it. And so, he said, I know I'm going to die, and I just want to tell that you that I'm not going to Hell. Then, he called Mama and told her. Then, he told Sadie and Irene and Otis and Avis, Elmer, and Edward. He told each one of the children separately that week that he was saved. And we were all so glad, especially Mama. That thrilled her, of course.
ANN: Tell about ? the things you remember about your mother and daddy, different things about their personality. I know Grandma Lammon was supposed to be a really fine Christian all of her life ?
AVIS: Mama didn't, we never did, have much. And when Papa was young, when they were young, I was a kid, a little one, he had the Ford agency in Hartford and had it for the whole county of Geneva. Any car that was sold in Geneva, he would get a percentage of it. Well, he decided he had to go over to Bellwood to put in a gin for somebody, so he just turned over the Ford agency to Lee -- to one of his brothers. And he went over there to put in a gin. I'll tell you something else about that. While we lived in Bellwood - I started to school in Bellwood - but one day - of course, we didn't have telephones or anything - one day Mama ? sent me and Elmer to the gin to tell Papa to bring something for dinner, tell him to bring something she needed. And while we were there, a man from Hartford had bought an automobile and, in driving over to Bellwood, something had happened to it. And he brought it to the gin, and said Mr. Lammon - I know all Lammons are mechanical - and said, I want you to see if you can fix this car. So, Papa did whatever there was to do to it. And told me and Elmer, come get in the car, and I'll take y'all home. Oh, we just felt like we were -- well, we were. That's the first car I had ever seen. We rode home in it.
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Another part of the same interview:
EDDIE: What about your father's personality? Did he have a lot to do with the children, or?
AVIS: Yeah, he was real sweet and kind to children, and -- but he was a Lammon. It was kind of like your daddy. Your daddy was like him.
NANCY: Was he more like Uncle Ed, or was he more like Daddy?
AVIS: I don't know how to tell you that. I wouldn't know. To me, he was more precious than any of them, and, you know, he never was mean to any of us. The only time my father ever switched me, or punished me with a switch, Aunt Carl came over there one time, and I was studying. I was in the seventh grade, and I was studying for an examination in school. She said, if you'll climb that hickory tree right there and study that, you'll never forget it. So, up the tree I went and took my book with me. And my father came home about that time. He said, what are you doing up that tree? I said, I'm studying. He said, get down from there, and he whipped me about three times around the ankle. It broke my heart.
ANN: But he didn't want you up --
NANCY: He was afraid you'd fall.
EDDIE: You didn't forget that whipping, did you?
AVIS: I didn't forget that. But he was real kind and sweet. He was, I don't know, not real thoughtful, not as thoughtful as Eddie is to his younguns. But he was sweet and kind, and we were good to him, I remember. And he was heavy like you are. And he was always going to lose weight like you are. One time I remember he was sick and did lose weight because of the illness. We just had an old fireplace. And it was wintertime because it was there by the fire. And he said, go tell the children to come, I've got something I want to show all of them, something they've never seen before. And he was sitting right by a window, facing the fireplace. So, I first went to the window, and he was looking out the window. I said, what is it? Show me first. He said, no, I'm not going to show you 'til all of you get in here. So, I ran and told them. We all got in there. And what he was going to tell us was -- he had his legs crossed, like that -- like this. He said, this is the first time I've ever been able to do this, you know, put it up like that.
ANN: Eddie can't cross his.
AVIS: He always crossed it further down than that, just let it lay there.
NANCY: That's cute.
AVIS: And he said, I want y'all to see this. This is the first time you have ever seen my legs crossed like this.
ANN: Was he stocky like Eddie and Daddy?
AVIS: Eddie is built a lot like him.
ANN: But, now, his brothers were not that. Wasn't Freddie tall?
AVIS: Freddie was tall and thin.
ANN: Wonder how tall Freddie was?
AVIS: I don't know.
ANN: Over six feet, wasn't he?
AVIS: And Uncle Duncan was kind of stout, and Uncle Archie was stout like Papa and not as tall, so that made him look even broader. And Uncle Ed was just a medium-size man.
NANCY: Well, I've always thought of the Lammon men all being stocky. But when I think of Uncle Otis, I never thought of him being stocky. He was thinner, but he was probably about the same height as Daddy and Uncle Ed.
ANN: Yeah.
NANCY: He just wasn't as stocky. Because Daddy and Uncle Ed were built similar.
ANN: They said Granddaddy was the shortest of all his brothers.
AVIS: No.
ANN: He wasn't?
AVIS: I don't think. I think Archie was shorter.
NANCY: Shorter?
AVIS: Uh-huh. Does the Lammon book say that?
ANN: No. I just had heard somebody say that he was probably one of the shortest, and that Freddie was a lot taller and --
AVIS: Uncle Freddie was the tallest of all of them and the only one that was real tall like that. Uncle Duncan was taller than Papa, but was built -- not as broad, you know.
NANCY: Well, when your mother would take you all to church - I remember Daddy telling me one time - when he was little, and this may be one of his stories, because he said that they had him bundled up in a blanket and put him up underneath the pew, and they left church, and they left him in the church. They had to come back and get him. Now, that may be one of his stories.
AVIS: It may be so, too. I've heard that, too.
NANCY: I've heard that, too. Did your Daddy go to church?
AVIS: No, no, no.
NANCY: He didn't go to church?
AVIS: He didn't go to church. He stayed at home on Sunday.
EDDIE: How about the rest of the bunch -- Archie and that crowd?
AVIS: They didn't go either.
EDDIE: None of them did?
NANCY: So, just the women went to church?
AVIS: Uncle Joe went with Aunt Carl. Let's see. I don't believe a one of the Lammon men went, though. I don't know. I know one time when holiness first came through the country, I don't reckon I was old enough to go maybe. But Sadie and Irene, when we lived in Bellwood, they stayed with Grandpa Lammon and went to school in Hartford because they had already passed the school that was in Bellwood. And then they didn't have school buses to go. And, they had a holiness meeting, a tent meeting. I know where it is, but I don't know how to tell you the street it was on in Hartford. But it was over close to where the Assembly Church is now. And Irene and Sadie wanted to go. And Grandma Lammon, they were real strict with the girls. You didn't do things by yourself. You had to have an escort. So, Uncle Duncan said, well, I'll go with them. Then, when they got there, he told Sadie and Irene, said, don't you get up there close, they sprinkled powder on you and make you shout and do all that stuff, you sit way back here. So, Uncle Duncan didn't go, and he never did partake in any kind of church service. He married Mamie Hilton. They had two boys -- three boys.
ANN: So, the church influence y'all had came from your mother then?
AVIS: Yeah.
ANN: The little ones --
AVIS: Grandma Lammon now, she was a great church go-er and church worker.
EDDIE: You know, I remember Daddy talking about when he was a kid, that his mother took him to church all the time, and that he just couldn't wait 'til he got old enough not to go to church.
AVIS: He got tired of it.

Edward married Alice O'Keith Fields in 1895 in Fields Home, Alabama. Alice (daughter of Alexander Clayton Fields and Roxie Louise Atkinson) was born on 25 Feb 1872 in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama; died on 20 Feb 1942 in Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama; was buried in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

THE LAMMON TREE by Avis Lammon Atkinson

B-1900 Alabama Soundex.

Notes:

Notes:
The Lammon Tree by Avis, Irene & Sadie Lammon.
1850 Dale Co. Alabama Census
1860 Dale Co. Alabama census.
1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census, E.D 66, house 167.
1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Census B-Gravestone inscriptions, Hartford, Geneva Co. Cemetery inscriptions, p.22. M-Pension application of Mary Jane Lammon, SLC #1510411: Confederate Pension applications --Alabama.
DPension application of Mary Jane Lammon, SL C #1510411: Confederate Pension Applications--Alabama, (alphabetical). D-Cemetery inscriptions, Hartford Cem. Geneva Co., Alabama, p. 22.


"The historical record roll of Co. E, 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment shows James Lammon, Private, enlisted in the Confederate Army August 3, 1862 at Newton (formerly Westville) Alabama. He was honorably discharged from the service on the 13th day of April 1865. The James Lammon family moved from the Barnes X Roads in 1893 to settle in Geneva County. They spent the first year in what was known as the Kinsaul Community and in 1894 they bought land and moved to Hartford, where they cleared land and farmed. Later they organized a milling company and operated sawmills, planer mills, a variety shop, gristmill and a cotton gin. They were a busy family and attended church about two miles from their home, the Pondtown Methodist, until the town grew enough to build and support one, which was only a few years."

"The first time real tragedy struck in the family was in 1902 when their 20-year-old son, James Olin, died suddenly. He is buried in the Pondtown Methodist Church Cemetery. In 1906 a beautiful two-story home was built of choice timbers saved over the years for this purpose. The outstanding feature of the home was the wide veranda all around the house with decorative woodwork and banisters. Another tragedy of the family was when the home and practically all of the furnishings were completely destroyed by fire March 31, 1911."

---Sadie Lammon Johnson Irene Lammon Hardwick Avis Lammon Atkinson



The following note from Elmer Burns Lammon:

In corresponding with Wanda Gale Stafford, a descendant of Frances Caroline Lammon, she showed James Lammon as having the middle name Daniel. I wrote and told her that I had never known that he had a middle name and asked her for the source. She replied, "I received a handwritten copy of Snell and Lammons family information. The Snell outline was of my gg gf Wilburn and his wives (2) and children and the Lammons family Info page reads like this:

Smith side of family - From Lammons family records. Grandmother Mary Ann Rebecca Smith. (then lists the family info)

Mary Ann "Mollie" was the second wife (my gg gm) of Wilburn Snell. Mollie's mother was Francis Caroline Lammons that married James F. Smith. Your ancestor's name was listed with both names that I gave you.

I was told it was taken from a family bible. The bible was held by one of my gg aunt's, but I do not know who got it when she died. The document was very yellow and old looking. I made a copy and mailed the original back to its
owner."

As this source is as good or better than most of my sources, I will use it.

James married Mary Jane Barnes on 29 Dec 1870 in Barnes Cross Roads, Dale, Alabama. Mary (daughter of Edward Barnes and Sarah Francis Dean) was born on 28 Nov 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes:
B-Confederate Pension Application, Alabama: SLC #1510411: widow's pension app. of Mary Jane Lammon. (Alphabetical) M-ibid. D-Hartford, Geneva Co., Alabama Cem inscriptions, p. 22.
1850 Dale Co., Alabama Census.
1860 Dale Co., Alabama Census.
1880 Dale Co., Alabama Census, E.D. 66, house 167.
1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Census.
1920 Hartford, Geneva Co. Census, age 68, enumerated with Joseph S. Fields, s-in-l.

Alexander married Roxie Louise Atkinson. Roxie (daughter of William Maldree Atkinson and Ursula Eugenia Griffith) was born on 4 May 1848 in Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia; died on 31 Jul 1933 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. [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]

Edward married Sarah Francis Dean. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Sinai Matthews. Sinai (daughter of Moses Ezekiel Matthews, Jr and Mary Ann Truitt) was born in 05 Dec1814 in Darlington District, South Carolina; died on 18 Aug 1888 in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ursula Eugenia Griffith on 3 Aug 1853 in Greensboro, Green County, Georgia. Ursula was born on 22 Jan 1825 in Barnwell District, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]