Notes:

SSN 263-09-1618

Info from Barbara Lammons Snellings, 1806 Britton Drive, Phenix City, AL 36867.

Melvin married Claudia Irene Williams, on September 18, 1938 in Pensacola, Escambia, FL. Claudia was born on February 15, 1915 in Dothan, Houston, AL, died on May 12, 2001 in Phenix City, Russell, AL, at age 86, and was buried in Lakeview Memory Gardens, Phenix City, AL.

Melvin married Claudia Irene Williams on 18 Sep 1938 in Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida. Claudia was born on 15 Feb 1915 in Dothan, Houston County, Alabama; died on 12 May 2001 in Phenix City, Russell County, Alabama; was buried in Lakeview Memory Gardens, Phenix City, Russell County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Edward Irving Lammons was born on 1 Nov 1939 in Bonifay, Holmes County, Alabama.
2. Richard Gary Lammons was born on 23 Aug 1943 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama; died on 2 Mar 2017 in Dacula, Georgia.
3. Mary Ann Lammons was born on 19 Jun 1946 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama.
4. Barbara Joan Lammons

Notes:

1880 Alabama Soundex 1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Census: single in 1900
M-SLC #1290911: Geneva Co. Alabama Marriage Index, 1898-1979.
D-Geneva Co., Ala Tomb Records, Vol. 1., p. 22, by correspondence from Houston- Love Memorial Library, 21 2 W. Burdeshaw St., Dothan, AL 36302

The following note from Dorrothy Janette Lammons Medved:

Duncan had 6 brothers and 2 sisters. His family lived in Barnes Cross Roads, about 6 miles north of Ozark, Alabama. In 1894, the family moved to Hartford, Alabama, where they farmed and later organized a milling company and operated saw mills, planer mills, and gristmills and owned and operated a cotton gin. It was in Hartford that he met Mamie Evelyn Hilton. They married on March 2, 1910 and had 3 sons and 1 daughter. Duncan was the county sheriff and Chief of Police in Hartford. He loved playing with his grandchildren and taking them out to the gristmills and feeding them sugar cane and watermelon.

Duncan married Mamie Evelyn Hilton on 2 Mar 1910 in Geneva County, Alabama. Mamie (daughter of Augustus H Hilton and Lucy Janie Moon) was born on 31 May 1892; died on 8 Aug 1998. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

(The following article appeared in The Dothan Eagle, date: c. 1993)
SEEING A CENTURY
20 Presidents, Two World Wars Have Passed in Her Lifetime
EDITOR'S NOTE: Seniors have a lifetime of experiences to share. Each week, The Dothan Eagle profiles a different senior citizen in the Wiregrass.
By MATT MOORE
Eagle Staff Writer
COTTONDALE-A lot of things have happened since Mamie Lammons of Cottondale was born.

Twenty different presidents have sat in the White House, two world wars have been waged and mankind has set foot upon the moon.

When Ms. Lammons, 101, was born on May 31, 1892, Benjamin Harrison was president, the Spanish-American War of 1898 was six years hence and farmers were flocking to the Wiregrass to make their money in King Cotton, unaware of the impending boll weevil. A native of Georgia, Ms. Lammons has lived there, in Hartford and now Cottondale, but her heart remains true to her native state.

"I'm a Georgia girl," she said with a grin. "I was born in Harrison County about six miles from Buchanan." She said the times have changed since she was a little girl, especially the schools that have now become sprawling multi-room campuses that can sometimes have all the problems of inner-city slums, but it wasn't like that when she started school.

"I started my schooling at what they called the Flatwood School House. It was a one-room schoolhouse that everyone went to," she said. "We got along pretty good with it I reckon." She explained that all of the kids in the schoolhouse had to sit on their own chairs ("It wasn't seats, more like in a church, "Ms. Lammons said) and each grade sat in its own rows. All in all it was a good arrangement, except when the boys would try to play tricks on the girls, actions that Ms. Lammons recalls with clarity.

"Sitting right behind me and my younger sister was a row of boys and girls and there was this boy who pulled my sister's hair," she said. "He would just reach up and grab and pull it."
She said she warned him not to do that to her sister anymore, but "he delighted in reaching up and giving her hair a pull. The next time he did it, I just slammed him across the head with my book as hard as a little girl could and he didn't pull her hair anymore," Ms. Lammons said, suppressing a slight chuckle. Ms. Lammons came to Hartford on Jan. 1, 1901 after her father, a farmer, received word that the land was good for growing crops, and he tired of the rocky soil of Harrison County

"They had told him how good the land was out there, so he sold out what he had and moved to Alabama," she said.
The move introduced her to train travel and egg sandwiches for the first time, and she was quite impressed with both of them.

"My father and oldest brother came down on a wagon," she said. "On January 1, me and mama
and my two brothers went down by train, it was my first time, and when we stopped at Albany, Ga., it was time for lunch. Of course there weren't any cafes by the train station."

Ms. Lammons said the train conductors came through the cars offering sandwiches for sale and she bought an egg salad sandwich.

"I've liked them ever since," she said.

Now residing in Cottondale with her oldest son Milan, 82, Ms. Lammons said she wouldn't change anything about her life. She had four children, worked in the fields for her father and then her husband, Duncan Lammons, made sure her children received an education and waited anxious nights while her husband was on patrol as the Hartford Police Department's Chief from 1931 until his death in 1951.

The secret to her long life, which she said was noted on NBC-TV's "Today Show" by weatherman/personality Willard Scott, on her 101st birthday in May, she said it was simple.

"Well, I'll tell you, I've lived a normal life, and I've always been active. I've just always been active," she said.

And she has no complaints about the turns her life has given her, including outliving three of her four children and her husband.

"I live a good life," she said. "I've had my ups and downs, but so has everybody else."


The following note from Dorrothy Janette Lammons Medved:
Mamie's family farmed in North Georgia and she helped on the farm. She had five brothers and one sister. Mamie was next to the oldest and her sister died when Mamie was 8 years old. In 1904, when she was twelve years old, her family moved to a farm near Hartford, Alabama, where the land was not as rocky as it was in Georgia. Mamie and her mother came to Alabama on the train, while her father and brothers brought the animals and household goods by wagon and on foot. Mamie and Duncan met in Hartford when she was 17 years old. They married when she was 18 years old. Duncan was 19 years older than she was. They had three sons and a daughter. Their daughter only lived 2 days. After Duncan died in 1951, she stayed in Hartford for several years and then spent time with her sons and their families. In 1971 she moved to Cottondale, Florida, to live with her son, Milan and his wife Lois. She lived with her son Milan until her death in 1998 at age 106. She loved to cook, sew and quilt. She was known for her pretty quilts, fried apple pies and chicken and dumplings. She loved visiting and spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She always had a smile on her face.

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.

Augustus married Lucy Janie Moon. [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]