Notes:

From "The Lammon Tree"
Mary Louise Lammon was Mama's baby sister. Mama said that Mary Lou got a jar of potash (her mother used it to wash clothes with) that was sitting the window and thought that it was milk (it is white like milk). Mary Lou drank the liquid not knowing that it was, indeed, poison. She died a few days later. She is buried in the family plot in Hartford and on her little grave is written: "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. " --Jane Linton

The following is a tribute that Sadie Anne Lammon Johnson wrote at age 12 about her little sister Mary
Lou:
"Again the death angel has visited our community. Mary Lou the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Lammon passed from this old sinful world into that brighter and better world where all is peace and love. Little Mary Lou was born on the 10th day of March 1906 and died on the 26th day of August 1908 She leaves father, mother, 4 sisters and 2 brothers with hosts of friends and relatives to mourn her loss. Her little life was indeed very short but it was a beautiful ray of sunshine and gladness to her loved ones. Dear little Mary Lou, we miss your sweet smiling face, no soft hands to caress us when we are tired; no little blue eyes peeping from your silken locks; no, not in your cradle nor your little chair. Oh, it is so hard to give you up but the one that ruleth over all things saw it fit to take this tender bird, though it is indeed clear and we must submit to our blessed masters will, though it sometimes seems greater than we can bear. Little Marylou bore her suffering with all patience and perfectly calm unto the last. Papa and Mama's prayers were not answered as we would have had them; their arms were too weak to save her from crossing over the river that we must all cross sooner or later. Dry your tears for your darling is in heaven and we would not call her back to be tempted by Satan's many wicked ways, but continue your prayers that on that bright and cloudless morning you will meet her in that city of gold. Let us console ourselves with the knowledge that whomsoever believeth on him shall not perish but shall have everlasting life. We cannot understand why our precious little ones are taken from us, but we must remember that thy will "Oh Lord" be done and not ours and that he doeth all things well; Little Mary Lou was Laid to rest at Hartford Cemetery on the morning of Aug 27, 1908."

Peaceful be thy silent slumber,
Peaceful in thy grave so low,
Thou no more will join our number,
Thou no more our song shall know,
Yet we hope again to meet thee.
When the day of life is fled
And in heaven with joys to greet thee;
Where no farewell tears are shed.
--Written by her dear sister Sadie"
[Aunt Sadie's dates are not correct. --Jane Atkinson Linton]
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The following note is from a taped interview with Avis Lammon Atkinson. - EBL.
And Mama had one baby that died while we lived there in Bellwood. Her name was Mary Lou. We called her Baby Lou.
EDDIE: Is she buried in Bellwood or Hartford?
AUNT AVIS: She's buried in Hartford. But she drank poison by mistake, thought it was milk, and it was potash. It had rained in a potash can, and she poured it in a little old glass and drank it, and it ate her stomach up.
NANCY: Now, how old was she?
AUNT AVIS: She was a year and a half -- two and a half. No, I believe she was just a year and a half.
ANN: That was sad.
AUNT AVIS: That was -- the only thing I can remember about that baby she was crying so, and I reckon they didn't know how to treat things then. They put her in a sheet, and two people on each side and they would pour water on the sheet and let it run under her to cool her. She was just burning up, you know. I remember that. And I remember Mama walking the floor and patting her, as she'd walk around the corner of the porch. And I remember following her and looking at the baby.
NANCY: Did she know that she had drunk this?
AUNT AVIS: Yeah, yeah.
ANN: As a matter of fact, I think your daddy always thought that he let her drink it and never did get over that, did he?
AUNT AVIS: Yeah, but I didn't want to tell that.
NANCY: Yeah, I remember him talking --
AUNT AVIS: Yeah, he -- the lime was in a can. Mama washed just outside the window, and somebody had broken the window out. So Elmer reached around there and got the can. And he saw that milk in it and poured it in a glass, and then, the baby took the milk and drank it. And Elmer never did get over that.
?
NANCY: How old would was he? Just --
AUNT AVIS: Well, let's see. I had started to school there, and he was two and a half years younger
than me. So he wasn't any older than three.
ANN: Yeah, He was just three or four years old.

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]