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]

Notes:

General Notes: THE LAMMON TREE by Avis, Irene & Sadie Lammon. 1850 Dale Co., Alabama Census, p. 455, Dwelling 852.

The following is excerpted from "Sons of the Horse Lords, Genealogy of The McEachern Family, 1788-1995" - Owen Daniel McEachern.

"?James Owen McEachern is in our direct line of ancestors, and additional information is given about his life in a succeeding section. He died at the age of 76 on February 9, 1931, and is buried at Thurston Cemetery..."

"Sarah Ann Lammon was only 4 years old when she left North Carolina with her family in 1830, after joining a wagon train to seek new territories for themselves. The families in the wagon train spent many days and nights on the rugged trails, marked only by previous travelers who had blazed the way. Her parents, Duncan and Ann McColskie Lammon, enjoyed the northern areas of Alabama and Georgia, and they tarried there for about two years. They had been warmly welcomed by the Cherokees in what was called "The Cherokee Nation." The Indians treated them royally, often inviting them to their celebrations and other rituals."

"In 1833 the Lammon's bade goodbye to the Indians and pushed on southward. It was during this trip they saw the 'Stars Falling on Alabama' a noted event which was later immortalized in song."

"The Lammons eventually reached an area they liked, called Barnes Cross Roads, Alabama, and they settled there. "Sarah Ann married John McEachern at Christmastime, 1841. Sometime in the 5 or 6 years following the birth of her last child, James Owen in 1854, his father, John, disappeared. Where he went has remained a mystery to this day. Some of the older members of the family believed he may have gone to Texas with a young girl of the area who disappeared about the same time. Other family members mention hearsay to the effect that John was asked by his wife, Sarah Ann, one cold rainy night to ride to the grocery store and buy salt so she could complete the evening meal. He went to the store and bought the salt. However, when he returned home he was reprimanded by Sarah Ann for buying rock salt rather than the desired table salt. She instructed John to return the salt to the store and to exchange it for the proper kind."

"Sarah Ann was known to be very strict and firm, and since she was so overbearing she probably exhibited those qualities on that occasion. In any event, John took the salt and headed back toward the store. What happened next has never been determined, but he never returned home, and nothing further was ever heard of him. "Sarah Ann did an excellent job thereafter in caring for her children. By the judicious use of the farm income, supplemented by money she earned as a seamstress, she was able to have all her children finish their public education, and in the case of her two youngest sons, Daniel Carlie and James Owen, see them through further education which enabled them to be public school teachers."

---Owen Daniel McEachern, great grandson

Sarah married John McEachern on 25 Dec 1841 in Dale County, Alabama. John (son of Archibald McEachern and Catherine McEachern) was born on 1 Apr 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Edward Barnes in 1858. Edward was born on 4 Oct 1816 in North Carolina; died on 4 Jun 1871; was buried in Barnes Cemetery, Barnes Cross Roads, Dale, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes:
The Lammon Tree by Avis, Irene & Sadie Lammon. 1850 Dale C o. Alabama Census. B&D SLC# 0924918, Dale Co. Alabama Cemeteries, Old Post Oak Cemetery. p.4.
1860 Dale Co., Alabama Census, Newton P.O., p. 721/223.
1870 Dale Co., Alabama Census, Barnes Cross Road, Beat #12, p. 196.
1880 Dale Co., Alabama Census, E.D. 66, dwelling #100.
1900 Dale Co., Alabama Census, E.D. 69, line 88, sheet 10, Barnes Cross Rd.

Martha married Thomas H. Glenn in 1855 in Dale County, Alabama. Thomas (son of John N Glenn and Elizabeth Bradley) was born on 9 Mar 1827 in Georgia; died on 26 Jul 1901 in Dale County, Alabama; was buried in Post Oak Cemetery, Ozark, Dale County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Daniel's grave lies next to his mother's. Inscribed upon his gravestone:
In memory of our brother
Daniel C. Lammon
Born October 21, 1832
Died October 19, 1850
Age 17 years, 11 months, 28 days"
---Source: John Duncan Lammon

Notes:

General Notes: The Lammon Tree by Avis, Irene & Sadie Lammon.1850, 1860, 1880, Dale Co., Alabama Census. 1900 Geneva Co., Alabama Census.
B&D-"Geneva Co., Alabama Tomb Records," Vol. 1, p.6, Pondtown Methodist Church Cemetery.

Notes:

General Notes: THE LAMMON TREE by Avis, Irene & Sadie Lammon. 1850 Dale Co. Alabama Census. 1860 Dale Co. Alabama census. 1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census, Vol 7 E.D.66, sheet 18.
B&D-"Geneva Co., Alabama Tomb Records," Vol. 1, p. 6, Pondtown Methodist Church Cemetery.

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: The Lammon Tree by Avis, Irene & Sadie Lammon. 1st name:

1860 Dale Co. Alabama Census.
BD-1850 Dale Co. Alabama Census.
1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census, E.D. 66, p. 4, dwelling 37.

The following from Gale Stafford-Wall, Jacksonville, FL:
Census: -1850 Dale County, AL, Southern Division: 9 years old. Born in AL. Attending school.
1880 Dale County, AL Census: Francis C. 36 years old. Born in AL. Parents born in NC. Children: Molee A., William D., Bascom, Eliza J.
1900 Geneva County, AL Census: "Francis C." Wife of James. Born November 1842 (conflicts with family records). 57 years old. Married 32 years. 5 of 6 children living. Born in AL. Parents born in NC. Can read and write. Children living at home: Bascomb M., born December 1871, 28 years old, born in AL; Bertie C. , born March 1882, 18 years old, born in AL.
1910 Holmes County, FL Census: "Faney C." widowed mother. 68 years old. 5 of 6 children living. Born in AL. Parents born in NC. Can read and write. Living with son Bertie.
1920 Holmes County, FL Census: "Callie". Widowed mother. 78 years old. Can read and write. Born in AL. Parents born in "U.S." Living with son Bertie.
Marr: ca 1867

Frances married James F Smith in 1867. James was born on 4 Apr 1844; died on 28 Aug 1909. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

Info from Owen Daniel McEachern

Family/Spouse: Martin Matthew Baker. Martin was born on 30 Jan 1839; died on 29 Oct 1921. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes: Info from Owen Daniel McEachern.

"William Lammons McEachern never married, as he enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of 18. His enlistment on June 18, 1863 was at Abbeville, Alabama. He had been a farmer in Dale County, Alabama, and was 5 feet, 8 inches tall, with blue eyes and dark hair. His complexion was fair. During his military service he became ill with fibrous typhoid and was admitted to the confederate hospital in Jackson, Mississippi on March 6, 1864. He lingered there until his death June 22, 1864."

--Owen Daniel McEachern

Notes:

General Notes:

Ibid. B&D- SLC #0924918: Dale Co. Alabama Cemeteries, Old Post Oak (Methodist) Cemetery, p. 4.

"Duncan McEachern lived a short life.... The cause of his death is not known. He was 15 when he died. "

-- Owen Daniel McEachern.

Notes:

"Daniel Carlie McEachern, at birth, was named Washington McEachern, and he is so listed in the 1850 census, which was taken when he was 4 months old. Sometime after that, he was renamed Daniel Carlie. Some members of the family think he was also renamed Daniel McColsky at some point in his life. This could not be verified. However, it is known that he used Daniel Carlie as his legal name all his adult life. Daniel Carlie was known to be fond of small children, particularly those of the black farm workers. The black children were called "Pickaninnies" in those days, and his liking them led to Daniel Carlie's nickname, "Uncle Pick." He was fondly called by this nickname the rest of his life--by friends and relatives alike. Throughout his life, "Uncle Pick" remained a bachelor, despite his love for children. It is said that as a teenager, "Uncle Pick" was in love with a young lady but the courtship turned into an unfortunate affair, which turned him against marriage."

"As he grew older, "Uncle Pick" remained active in the management of his farm, and was in fairly good health. He eventually developed a kidney problem, and also was bothered by a small murmur from the mitral valve in his heart. Although these problems only bothered him at times, they were more serious than he thought, and "Uncle Pick" eventually called for assistance from his doctor. On Thursday, March 18, 1926, Dr. J.W. Beasley arrived to examine "Uncle Pick." He duly noted the kidney problem and the mitral valve murmur, but saw no cause for alarm. However, at 7 p.m. Monday, March 22, 1926, just after he had eaten supper, "Uncle Pick" suffered a sudden fatal heart attack. He was buried at Thurston Cemetery. (Pleasant Home Free Will Baptist Cemetery)"

-- Owen Daniel McEachern

Notes:

General Notes: Correspondence from Owen Daniel McEachern, grandson, via Jane Linton, P.O. Box 218, Gordon, Alabama 36343.

"James Owen, the son of John and Sarah Ann Lammons McEachern, was born at Barnes Cross Roads, Dale County, Alabama, October 28, 1854. He attended public schools there, and then took additional courses, which qualified him to be a schoolteacher. Mary Barton Miller was born in 1860 and she was 20 years old when she fell in love with James Owen. They were married in 1880 and, not long after that, they moved to Pike County, Alabama, where he became a teacher at Blackwood School. There, their first two sons were born.

With their growing family, James Owen and Mary decided to make a change, and during the latter part of 1885, moved to Dothan, Alabama. James Owen entered into a partnership there with his cousin, Earley Garner, in a hardware business. James Owen also became an administrative assistant to Dothan's first mayor and a few years later became the third mayor of Dothan. In 1892 Mary contracted typhoid fever. She lingered 88 agonizing days and then quietly passed away November 30, 1892. She was buried in the Dothan City Cemetery.

With the death of his wife, James Owen was left with three young sons to raise, Alvin 11, James Cleveland 8, and Daniel Carlie 3. He prevailed on his widowed mother, Sarah Ann Lammons McEachern, to leave Dale County and come to Dothan to help raise the children. She accepted the challenge, bringing with her Daniel Carlie, her bachelor son (Uncle Pick) who lived with her. In the meantime the hardware store was suffering from neglect and was not doing well financially. Too, there were differences of opinion between the partners over management policies, which led to the sale of the business.

In 1894 James Owen moved the family to the nearby small settlement of Dundee, and began farming there. After almost two years at Dundee, it did not appear that the family could make a go of it there, and James Owen began exploring other possibilities. He still owned his house and lot in Dothan, and was finally able to swap it, "Even-Steven", to a Doctor Chapman for 40 acres of land, with a house thereon, at Thurston, Geneva County, Alabama, about 40 miles away.

The family, including James Owen, Sarah Ann, Uncle Pick, Alvin, James Cleveland, and young Daniel Carlie, were on their way to their new home on January 1, 1896. The date was well remembered because of the bitter cold and the 14 inches of snow on the ground, something most unusual in that area. After they were settled in at Thurston, they began clearing and cultivating the land. With Sarah Ann doing the housework, and the men and boys doing the farm work, they adjusted easily to their new surroundings.

On August 6, 1900, James Owen was elected tax assessor for Geneva County and served in that capacity from September 1, 1900 through August 31, 1905. The usual term of four years had been extended to five years due to a change in the election laws. During his term of office, James Owen purchased an additional 160 acres of land at Thurston from William Holloway.

In 1903, the 3 McEachern sons, Alvin, James Cleveland, and Daniel Carlie decided to go out on their own and moved to Hartford, Alabama, where they established a furniture store. It was in Hartford that Alvin and James Cleveland met the girls who would later become their wives. While James Owen was tax assessor he met Lou Ada Hagans, an illiterate girl who lived with her parents, Z.B. and Martha Riley Hagans. Lou Ada had been born in Dale County, Alabama, September 24, 1886. The two soon fell in love and were married at the bride's home on Sunday, October 15, 1904.

James Owen taught her how to read and write, and do mathematics. When his eyesight failed in his declining years, she was able to handle all his correspondence and all accounting records. Soon after the marriage of James Owen and Lou Ada, his brother, "Uncle Pick" and their mother, Sarah Ann, moved to a house on his own land about a mile away. Sarah Ann did the housekeeping chores while "Uncle Pick" managed the farm work. This set-up continued for some time, until "Uncle Pick" was able to employ two colored workers to live with them, Minnie Collier who would cook and handle the housework, and Frank Parks, who would assist with the farm work.

In the meantime, to make room for the two new employees, Sarah Ann moved back in with James Owen and his wife, Lou Ada. The furniture store in Hartford had done well for several years, but by 1909 was beginning to fall on hard times, and plans were made to sell the business, the sale was finally consummated in April 1910, and on May 1, 1910, was turned over to the new owners. On that date Danile Carlie and James Cleveland returned to Thurston and moved in with "Uncle Pick" and assisted with the farm work.

Alvin remained in Hartford for a time as he had married in 1908, and had a young son. They were having a house built in Thurston, and when it was completed in 1910 he and his family moved there. At about the same time, Sarah Ann decided to visit friends and relatives at the old home place in Dale County. While there she became ill, and on June 27, 1911, she died. She was buried at Mount Olive Cemetery in the Rocky Head community in Dale County.

The McEacherns used the proceeds from the sale of the furniture store to buy an additional 320 acres of land at Thurston from William Holloway. This brought the family holdings to 520 acres, and it was decided at this time to formally divide the acreage among the family. James Cleveland was given power of attorney to accomplish this through a series of deeds.

The McEacherns cleared and cultivated their lands, raising corn, cotton, and peanuts, as well as livestock. In addition to the crops, they did a thriving business smoking and curing hams, bacon, and sausage, shipping it throughout the south. They also used the meat in paying workers to stump and clear their land."

--Owen Daniel McEachern

James married Mary Bartow Miller in 1880 in Barnes Cross Roads, Dale, Alabama. Mary was born in 1860; died on 30 Nov 1892; was buried in Dothan City Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes: THE LAMMON TREE by Avis Lammon Atkinson 1860, 1870 Dale Co. , Alabama Census

Notes:

Info from THE LAMMON TREE by Avis Lammon Atkinson 1870 Dale Co., Alabama Census. Jane Atkinson Linton

Jacob married Caledonia D Ard about 1889. Caledonia (daughter of Rueben Norman Ard and Mary Ann Ard) was born on 30 May 1865 in Dale County, Alabama; died on 19 May 1942 in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama; was buried in Barnes Cemetery, Barnes Cross Roads, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1870 Dale Co. Alabama Census. THE LAMMON TREE.

Family/Spouse: H.A.W. Martin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes: THE LAMMON TREE. 1870 Dale Co. Alabama Census.

Margaret married Albert Burt Segler in 1888. Albert was born on 6 Feb 1870 in Dale County, Alabama; died on 26 Sep 1907 in Dale County, Alabama; was buried in Center Ridge Cemetery, Ozark, Dale County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes:
1860 Dale Co. Alabama Census, Newton P.O., p. 721/223.
1870 Dale Co. Alabama Census, Barnes Cross Rd., p. 196.

Notes:

B-1860 Dale Co. Alabama Census, p. 721/223, Newton P.O. 1870 Dale Co. Alabama Census, Barnes Cross Road, Beat #12, p. 196.
1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census, E. D. 66 Dwelling #100.
1900 Dale Co. Alabama Census, E.D. 69, line 88, sheet 10, Barnes Cross Rd.

Wilborne married Lottie Stuckey on 17 May 1903. Lottie was born on 28 Nov 1879 in Bainbridge, Decatur, Georgia; died on 26 Dec 1969 in Pass Christian, Harrison, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1860 Dale Co. Alabama Census, p. 721/223, Newton P.O.
1870 Dale Co. Alabama Census, Barnes Cross Rd., Beat #12, p. 196.
1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census, E.D.66, Dwelling #100.
B-1900 Dale Co. Alabama Census, E.D. 69, line 88, sheet 10, Barnes Cross R. D-SLC #0924918, Dale Co. Alabama
Cemeteries , Centerridge Cem. p. 86.

Lawson married Frances Franklin Blackman on 20 Nov 1889 in Dale County, Alabama. Frances was born in 1858; died in 1939. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married E. M. Grace on 24 Dec 1887. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes:

1870 Dale Co. Alabama Census, Barnes Cross Rd., Beat # 12, p. 196.
1880 Dale Co., Alabama Census, E.D. 66, Dwelling #100.

Notes:

Info from John Duncan Lammon, P.O.Box 696, Jackson,
Alabama 36545 (1996).

1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census, and Barbara Helland, 855 Mande Court, Shalimar, Florida 32579.

B-1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Census, R#4 Wrights Creek, E.D. 72, sheet 26, dwelling 450.

"A farmer and part time Minister; and passed on to me by all family members as being loved by all. Although I was only six years old at his death, I can still remember that he and I were very close. Moved his family from the farm (near Hartford, Alabama or Graceville, Florida) to Columbus, Georgia in 1918."

-- Moody Lee Lammon, 2000.

Duncan married Rozetta Tew on 7 Mar 1897. Rozetta was born on 30 Jun 1878 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama; died on 31 Mar 1950; was buried in Riverdale Cemetery, Columbus, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1880 Dale Co., Alabama Census, Barnes Cross Rd., p. 12, house 106.
1900 Geneva Co., Wright Creek Census, E.D. 72, sheet 26, dwelling 449.
Info via phone from John Duncan Lammon, P.O. Box 696, Jackson, Alabama 36545 (1996) and from Barbara Helland, 855 Mande Court, Shalimar, Fl 32579.
1910 Houston Co. Alabama Census, Wicksburg, Prict. #1, E.D. 131, sheet 7, p. 0615. MSLC #1290911 Geneva Co., Alabama Marriage Index A-Z, 1898-1979, Vol. L to Z White Males.

Daniel McColskey Lammon was educated at Macon Business College (Georgia) for two years where he studied mathematics and surveying. He returned to Alabama and married Beatrice and went into the sawmill business with his father and brothers in Whittaker, Alabama. They then moved the sawmill to Bonifay, Florida where their first child, Ruth, was born. Daniel was an excellent carpenter and constructed three homes for his family. He could entirely design and build houses. He was a bookkeeper and general manager of the Brewton Bargain House (Alabama) for a while. He later bought that business and moved it. He traveled in later years but maintained a more-or-less permanent residence in Graceville, Florida his last 20 years. He died of cancer in Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami on Jan. 22, 1945. He was buried in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, where his daughter, Ruth Lammon Bruner, lived. He was affectionately known as "Papa" to his children and five grandchildren.

--Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff

All of the following are from notes and records of Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff, courtesy of her son Granger:

.... was in partnership in the sawmill and monument business. Then at age 3 weeks, moved by horse and buggy to Brewton, Ala. Furniture was shipped by railroad. Her father went to work as a "lumber tallier". Her mother taught kindergarten school until 1907 when they moved to a farm. Grandma Bailey gave Beatrice as her inheritance in Wicksburg, Ala* some seven miles from Slocomb. Ruth was first educated at home by her mother."

"In the winter of 1907 my mother, father and sister Inez and myself moved from Castleberry Ala. to Wicksburg, Ala., a small crossroad village. We came by train to Slocomb, Ala. and were met by my Grandmother's (Bailey) team of horses and carried out to her Plantation about eight miles north of that saw mill town and spent several weeks with her while my grandmother and father got things in shape for us to move into a long house with stickin-dirt chimney. The house had three rooms and a small porch. Within two years we had one of the finest houses in the community--a two-story home our father built.

Daniel married Beatrice Leonia Bailey on 4 Apr 1900 in Geneva County, Alabama, and was divorced about 1925. Beatrice (daughter of Benjamin Walter Bailey and Jospehene Saphrony Casey) was born on 1 Feb 1880 in Dale County, Alabama; died on 23 Jun 1933 in Slocomb, Geneva County, Alabama; was buried on 24 Jun 1933 in Newton, Dale County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes:

B&D-SLC #0924918: Dale Co. Alabama Cemeteries, Post Oak Methodist Cem., p.4.

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

1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census.

Notes:

General Notes: B&D-SLC #0924918: Dale Co. Alabama Cemeteries, Post Oak Methodist Cem. p.4.

1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census.

Middle name from Barbara Helland, 855 Mande Court, Shalimar, FL 32579.

Angus was killed in an accident by a run-away wagon

-- (Info from John Duncan Lammon.)

Notes:

B-1900 Alabama Soundex, Geneva Co.
D-Barbara Helland
1910 Alabama Soundex, Escambia Co. says born in 1887. 1920 Alabama Soundex, Washington Co. says born in 1886.
Personal Info via phone from daughter, Barbara Lammon Helland, (1996).
B-SLC #1752977: Washington Co., Alabama list of Registered Voters, p. 394: registered 1920 Preswick P.O. Stricken from list in 1948: left county.

Holcombe Lammon, Sr. worked in sawmills most of his life as superintendent. During WW II he worked in Maritime Shipyard in Mobile, AL., in the "Mold Loft" where the templates for battleships were made. His first son, Holcombe Lammon, Jr. was also a woodcraftsman and worked in the same place as his father during WW II until he entered the Merchant Marine. His ship was torpedoed near Murmansk, Russia. He served as Boatswain and was cited for his heroic actions trying to build life rafts right until the time the ship went down. He was lost with the ship. Allen McKee Lammon, second son of Holcombe Lammon, Sr., was also aboard this ship. He was rescued and worked as a construction engineer until his death.

Holcombe married Maggie Belle McKee on 31 Jul 1918 in Achensburg, Mississippi. Maggie was born on 1897 Mar 28 in Phoenix, Yazoo County, Mississippi; died on 1960 Oct 03 in Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama; was buried in Pine Crest Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes:
B&D-SLC #0924918: Dale Co. Alabama Cemeteries, p. 4.

Barbara Helland, 855 Mande Court, Shalimar, FL 32579.

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 by phone from John Duncan Lammon, P.O .Box 696, Jackson, Alabama 36545 and Barbara Lammon Helland, 855 Mande Court, Shalimar, Florida 32579, (both 1996).
B-SLC #175 2977: Washington co., Alabama List of Registered Voters, p. 316, Registered in 1907, stricken in 1940, transferred to Mobile Co. John worked as a millwright and carpenter.

The following Info from Regina Lammon.
"He was loved and respected by his children." His hobbies: hunting and fishing. Moved to California in 1944 for reasons of health. Died 4 years later.

John married Christine Velma Knapp in 1926 in Pascagoula, Jackson, Mississippi. Christine was born on 6 Oct 1894 in Fairford, Washington County, Alabama; died on 31 Dec 1968 in Lynwood, Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Inglewood Memorial Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

http://pineyprairie.blogspot.com/2011/07/wilburn-h-snell.html

1880 Dale Co. Alabama Census, E.D.66, dwelling 37, p. 4.

The following from Gale Stafford-Wall, Jacksonville, FL:

Census:
1880 Dale County, AL Census: Molee A - 12 years old living in the household of her parents. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.
1900 Dale County, AL Census: Listed as 32 years old, born October 1867, born in AL. Parents born in AL. Married 9 years. 8 of 8 children living. Note: Only Jamie, Naomi, Elias (Baud), and Callie would be her children. Willy, Alto, Della, and Donie would have been her stepchildren.
1910 Geneva County, AL Census: 42 years old. Married 19 years. 5 of 5 children living. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.

Maryann married Wilburn Helton Snell on 11 Sep 1890 in Dale County, Alabama. Wilburn (son of Wesley I Snell and Mary Dubois) was born on 20 Jun 1853 in Alabama; died on 23 Apr 1923 in Chipley, Washington County, Alabama; was buried on 26 Apr 1923 in Chipley, Washington County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note from Wanda Gale Stafford:
Census:
1880 Dale County, AL Census: 11 years old. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.
1900 Geneva County, AL Census: Born January1868. 32 years old. Married 8 years. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.

William married Rosey A Silevant on 14 Apr 1892 in Dale County, Alabama. Rosey was born in Apr 1869. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Birth date is from Headstone

Buried:
From www.findagrave.com

Bascomb married Dora L Horne on 19 Jul 1903 in Geneva County, Alabama. Dora (daughter of Willis Horn and Theresa Ward) was born on 10 May 1882 in Bullock County, Alabama; died on 8 Dec 1960 in Geneva County, Alabama; was buried in Tabernacle Methodist Church, Geneva County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Census:
1880 Dale County, AL Census: 7 years old. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.

Notes:

General Notes: B&D- SLC #0924918, Dale Co. Alabama Cemeteries, p. 5.
Birth: 25 Dec 1876, Dale County, AL
Death: 11 Aug 1877, Dale County, AL
Burial: Post Oak Methodist Cemetery, Dale County, AL

Notes:

The following from Gale Stafford-Wall, Jacksonville, FL:
Birth: Mar 1882, Alabama
Census: -1900 Geneva County, AL Census: Born March 1882. 18 years old living in the household of parents. Born in AL. Parents born in AL. Can read and write. Works in a saw mill.

-**Double Census Entry?
-1900 Geneva County, AL Census: "Birt". Born ? 1881. 18 years old. Living with brother Duncan. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.
-1910 Holmes County, FL Census: 28 years old, married 5 years. Born in AL. Parents born in AL. Can read and write. Works in a lumber mill. Nephew Jamie Snell living in household. Mother living in household.
-1920 Holmes County, FL Census: Berty "B." 38 years old. Married. Rents house. Can read and write. Born in AL. Parents born in AL. Works in a lumber mill.
Boarders: Sidney Jones, 26 and his wife, Ethel Jones, 28. Mother Callie living in household.
Spouse: Ella B. HORN
Birth: ca 1881, Alabama

Bertie married Ella B Horne on 20 Mar 1905 in Geneva County, Alabama. Ella (daughter of Willis Bryant Horne and Theresa Ward) was born in May 1880 in Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.
**************************************
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:

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 LAMMON TREE 1880 Alabama Soundex 1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Census: single in 1900

Marvin married Sarah Elizabeth Price on 4 Feb 1906 in Geneva County, Alabama. Sarah was born on 18 Mar 1883 in Blue Springs, Barbour County, Alabama; died on 28 Sep 1917 in Richmond, Virginia; was buried in Hartford City Cemetery, Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marvin married Sara Rena Sellers on 6 May 1923 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. Sara was born on 18 Mar 1894 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama; died on 16 Jun 1984; was buried in Hartford City Cemetery, Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1880 Alabama Soundex 1900 Alabama Soundex THE LAMMON
TREE

The following is an excerpt from a taped interview with Avis Lammon Atkinson in 1988:
AUNT AVIS: Yeah. When he came home from the Navy -- he was in the Navy when we moved here. And I never did tell her anything about Elmer -- him anything about Una, nor Una anything about Elmer. But after he came home, he said, why didn't you tell me about this gal? And she said the same thing. I mean, they fell for each other, and I can't remember how soon they married, but they married secretly. And once she and I went to Montgomery -- I've got to tell this too. This is kind of cute I thought. We went to Montgomery and Uncle Archie lived there. Uncle Archie -- I don't know how many children he has, but he had, at least, twelve. But, at that time, he didn't have any. But Olin, his second oldest child, had married, and had a new wife there. And Una was married, but I don't think that anybody knew it except me and Elmer. So Uncle Archie was -- they were real generous with food, and so we set out to get ice cream for lunch after a big dinner. and instead of getting a gallon of ice cream, they came in with -- from the ice cream factory with a five-gallon urn with -- you know, in the freezer with like -- you know, like we used to make. And Owen's wife went over -- everybody, when they got through eating was going to get a dish and getting ice cream. And Olin's wife went to get her some, and she looked up at Olin and said, Olin, if you want any of this, come and get it. These younguns are eating it all up. All right. That was Uncle Archie.

Archie married Lula Vinette Jerkins on 6 May 1900 in Geneva County, Alabama. Lula was born on 15 Aug 1884 in Dale County, Alabama; died on 10 Aug 1959; was buried in Hartford City Cemetery, Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "The Lammon Tree":
1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Census: single in 1900.
1880 Alabama Soundex.

Rachel Rebecca Lammon Thompson told Elmer Burns Lammon that her "daddy used to get mad at someone's putting an "s" to the name Lammon. She said that Duncan McColskey Lammons and his descendants use the "s" because Mamie wanted to use it. There were some people in Hartford named Sammons, and Mamie liked the sound of it and thought Lammon sounded better with an "s" on it."

July 2000.

Lee married Martha Washington Strickland on 30 Dec 1905 in Geneva County, Alabama. Martha (daughter of Kinchen Peeler Strickland and Sarah Cobb) was born on 26 Sep 1885; died on 10 Dec 1971. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"THE LAMMON TREE"
1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Census.
B - Hartford Cemetery Inscriptions, Geneva Co. Ala., p. 13, by Correspondence from Jane Linton, 10 Jowers Rd., P.O.Box 218, Gordon, Alabama 36343, (1995).
D-ibid.

Carol married Joseph Spencer Fields on 16 Nov 1902 in Geneva County, Alabama. Joseph (son of Alexander Clayton Fields and Roxie Louise Atkinson) was born on 19 Feb 1877 in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama; died on 1 Mar 1970; was buried in Hartford City Cemetery, Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes:
THE LAMMON TREE 1900 Geneva Co. Alabama Census.
B&D-Geneva Co., Ala. Tomb Records, Vol. 1, p. 6, by correspondence from Houston-Love Memorial Library, 212 W. Burdeshaw St., P. O. Box 1369, Dothan, Alabama 36302.

Headstone says "Jamsie O. Lammon"

Notes:

THE LAMMON TREE: 1900 Geneva Alabama Census.

During the depression, Freddie moved his family to California to find work. The depression caused many other Lammons to leave Hartford, as they were unable to make a living there.

--Elmer B Lammon

Note from granddaughter, Sharon Lammon Tracy:
You ask me about my grandfather. He did help build the Golden Gate Bridge, daddy also work on the bridge. I wish we had pictures of this happening. I'm not able to tell a whole lot about Big Daddy because I never knew him. But my mother says he was wonderful to her. He would let her take iodine and draw pictures on top of his head - he was bald. As a child I thought this was so funny and would picture my mother doing this. She was only 16, and a little thing.

Freddie married Enoona Buffalow on 28 Jun 1906 in Geneva County, Alabama. Enoona was born on 1 May 1889; died on 19 Aug 1957; was buried in Hartford City Cemetery, Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
I found this information at http://hatcherfamilyassn.com/getperson.php?personID=I9162&tree=WmtheIm

---Keith Lammon

FamilySearch, Alabama Deaths

Name: Flaudie Frances Hatcher
Death date: 05 Apr 1953
Death place: Dothan, Houston, Alabama
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document):
Race or color (expanded):
Age at death: 68y
Estimated birth year: 1885
Birth date:
Birth place:
Marital status:
Spouse name:
Father name: James Lammon
Father birth place:
Mother name: Mary Barnes
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Collection: Alabama Statewide Deaths 1908-1974

Flaudie married John Albert Hatcher on 13 Oct 1909 in Geneva County, Alabama. John (son of John S Hatcher and Eunice Metcalf) was born on 22 Oct 1886 in Alabama; died on 31 Jan 1965 in Dothan, Houston County, Alabama; was buried in Hartford City Cemetery, Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Willie McCants. Willie was born on 3 Apr 1890; died on 22 Mar 1981; was buried in Pleasant Home Free Will Baptist Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Annie Mae Brown. Annie was born on 3 May 1898; died on 25 Feb 1992. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"A Mess of Lammons" does not mention Emmett Norman Barnes, but www.findagrave.com shows him as one of the children, so I am adding it here.

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Info from Jane Atkinson Linton

Jacob married Sinai Ethel Fields on 5 Jun 1918. Sinai (daughter of Alexander Clayton Fields and Roxie Louise Atkinson) was born on 9 Jan 1892 in Ozark, Dale County, Alabama; died on 1 Feb 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ethel Pritchett. Ethel was born on 13 Jun 1902; died on 8 Apr 1992. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From "FORGOTTEN TRAILS"

1939 "DANIEL GARLAND BARNES, of Skipperville, was born June 20, 1893, six miles north of Ozark. He is the son of Jacob and Callie Donia (Ard) Barnes, of Barnes Cross Roads, Dale County: grandson of Edward and Ann (Lammon) Barnes, also of Barnes Cross Roads, the former having served as captain of the Home Guardsduring the War Between the States, and of Reuben Norman and Mary Ann (Barber) Ard, of Dale County, the former having served for four years in the Confederate States Army and surrendered with Lee.

"Representative Barnes received his early education in the private and public schools of Dale County. Due to the fact that his high school education was interrupted by a necessity of having to work every other year he did not graduate until 1914. He taught for two years in his native county and entered the Alabama Polytechnic Institute [now Auburn University -- EBL] in 1916. He graduated with honors in May, 1919, and in August 1936, received the M. S. degree in school administration. He taught a year at Brantley, Crenshaw County, and Pittsview, Russell County. He was principal of the high school at New Hope, Madison County, 1931-1932, Clayton, Barbour County, 1932-1935, Ranbourn, Cleburne County, 1935-1936, and at Coffee Springs, Geneva County, 1936-37. He is now managing his farms around Skipperville. During the World War he served as private of [the] Chemical Warfare Service, Field Testing Section, Long Island, N. Y., having been drafted May 1918, and discharged January 2, 1919. He is a Democrat, a Methodist, a Mason, a member of Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity and Kappa Delta Pi educational honorary fraternity.

"Married: August 5, 1920, at Skipperville, Shellie May, daughter of John Andrew and Mary Ellen (Burdeshaw) Whigham, of that place. Children: 1. Mary Ellen; 2 and 3, twins, Ruth Ard and Nancy Whigham. "

Daniel married Shellie Mae Whigham on 5 Aug 1920 in Skipperille, Dale County, Alabama. Shellie was born on 30 Apr 1899 in Skipperville, Dale County, Alabama; died on 31 May 1966; was buried in Skipperville, Dale County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From www.findagrave.com

Son of Jacob Barnes & Caledonia D "Callie" Ard; grandson of Edward & Ann (Lammon) Barnes and Rubin Norman & Marion Ann (Barbour) Ard.

22 years of age; Death Certificate # 30.

Family/Spouse: Annie Maude Johnson. Annie was born on 17 Sep 1902 in Alabama; died on 12 Nov 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Moody Lee Lammon -

Born on the farm and was deaf until an operation restored his hearing. I was told many times how amazed he was to hear the swamp frogs for the first time. I still have a 22 cal. Winchester rifle he bought new from a hardware store for three dollars. Moved from the farm to Columbus, Georgia when he was twelve. A very outstanding tool and die maker with the Army ordnance at Fort Benning, Georgia, as a member of the Army Field Board No. 4 that was devoted to developing and improving of small arms, instruments and other needs for the Army. This job required a top-secret clearance. The F.B.I. spent three months investigating his past and family history. Most of this time was spent around Hartford, Alabama. ord, Alabama.

At the beginning of World War 2, the draft board had him to report to Atlanta, Georgia for military service three times and each time the F.B.I. appeared and returned him to Fort Benning. After this he was put on a permanent deferment from military service. Retired from Civil Service, Fort Benning, Georgia." __ Moody Lee Lammon, 2000.

John married Lois Paloma Patten about 1927. Lois was born on 7 Mar 1909; died on 13 Jan 1977; was buried in Parkhill Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Information from Moody Lee Lammon in 2000.

Moved from the farm to Columbus, Georgia with his family 1918. In the early 1930's brothers Jake and Simon Schowb started Schowbilt Clothing for men. It became very successful, with stores in most Southeastern Cities. Walter was their first employee. He remained superintendent in charge of manufacturing until 1941; when he had a tumor the size of a large orange removed from his brain at Emory University Hospital. This left him partly paralyzed on one side. He took care of his mother, said he would not get married as long as his mother lived; this he did. Married very late in life to Beulah Reems.

Walter married Beulah Reams in 1958. Beulah was born on 15 Mar 1902; died on 22 Jan 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

All of the following are from notes and records of Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff, courtesy of her son Granger:

Aunt of James E. Moore, Jr.

"Ruth -
Her mother: Beatrice Leonia Bailey Lammon
Her father: Daniel McColskey Lammon
Her sisters: Inez and Jewett
Her brother: D.C.

"Ruth was named from Ruth of the Bible and from Beatrice, her own mother.

"She was born in Bonifay, Holmes County, Florida, Aug. 2, 1901, where her father was in partnership in the sawmill and monument business. Then, at the age of three weeks, the family moved by horse and buggy to Brewton, Alabama, while their furniture was shipped by railroad. Her father went to work as a "lumber tallier.

"Her mother taught kindergarten school until 1907, when they moved to a farm that Grandma Bailey (Josephene) gave Beatrice as her inheritance in Wicksburg, Alabama (7 miles from Slocomb).

"In the winter of 1907 my mother's father and sister, Inez, and myself, moved from Castleberry, Alabama, to Wicksburg, Alabama, a small crossroad village. We came by train to Slocomb, Alabama, and were met by my Grandmother Bailey's team of horses and carried out to her Plantation about 8 miles north of that sawmill town. We spent several weeks with her while my Grandmother Bailey and father got things in shape for us to move into a log house with stick-in dirt chimney. The house had 3 rooms and a small piazza (porch), Within 2 years we had one of the finest houses in the community - a two story home our father built." (Quote from Ruth). Until she was nine years old Ruth had not been to school except to visit. She then went to live with Grandma Lammon and Grandpa to attend 9 mo. of her first school in Brewton, Alabama, (Brewton Collegiate Institute). She remembers her first school as having colonial columns and all the "expensive homes She entered the second grade but, when May came, went to Wicksburg and went to the 7th grade there in 1917. She began the 8th grade in Dothan, Alabama, and moved to Graceville during World War I and finished 8th grade. Moved to Brunswick, Georgia, where Papa (her father) worked in shipyard during wartime. Ruth took her first job in Brunswick at age 14 selling hats - her first week she earned $3.50, the next week $7.50, and the next, $10.00. She worked there 8 weeks. She then went to work in a jewelry shop and stayed 1-1/2 days. Ten days later she found a job again, selling hats, and a hat trimmer from Baltimore came in and taught Ruth for 3 months how to make hats. The War ended on Nov. 11th so the family moved back to Graceville. Papa bought a farm in the Graceville, Florida, area and sold the Alabama farm. Since there was no transportation to schools, Ruth went to Hartford to stay with Grandpa and Grandma Lammon (her father's parents.) She was there only two weeks when Grandma got burned. Back to Graceville she went and attended school a little that year. Her appendix ruptured and it had to be
removed. The family then moved to Columbus, Georgia, for a year where Ruth and Inez worked in a cotton mill. Ruth ran the machines and sat reading Public Library books. She read every book the library had by Augusta J. Evans, one of her favorite authors and the author of the novel, "Inez". She then went to Dothan and entered the10th grade and completed it and part of the 11th grade at Slocomb. Ruth then journeyed to Hartford and worked for a lady who owned a hat shop, for one year without pay - for experience. The owner of the shop decided to sell Ruth half interest in the hat shop, so when Ruth was only 20 she borrowed money to go into business. She went to Atlanta, Georgia, for six weeks of training under a hat trimmer there. After she dissolved [the] partnership in Hartford. She moved to Slocomb and opened her own hat shop while living with Grandma Bailey. She was there from 1921 - 1925. She moved to Graceville and opened a hat and dress shop in 1926.

On March 31, 1928 she married Addis Lee Bruner of Cottonwood, Alabama, in Dothan, Alabama. (A judge married them, with Inez as only family witness). She kept the shop in operation in Graceville until 1938. In 1928 she gave birth to a premature baby boy (a six month term baby) who died. In 1932 (July 18) Ruell Granger Bruner was born in Graceville. He was named for his Grandmother Bruner who had been a Granger). In 1938 Ruth opened her own dress shop in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. Addis was still farming and the depression years had been hard on him. In 1944 she divorced Addis. She bought half interest in the DeFuniak Hotel (DeFuniak Springs, Florida) in 1944 and the next year bought the other half interest and continued to operate the dress shop, too. In 1946 she sold the dress shop and the following year she bought the Monroe Inn in Tallahassee.

In 1948 she married C.L. Winecoff and divorced him the next year. After he licked his problem of drinking they remarried in 1956. In 1951 she sold the Monroe Inn to Jewett and moved back to the DeFuniak Hotel. In 1951 she bought a restaurant in Niceville and operated it a year. In 1954 she bought the Walton Hotel and operated it until Feb. 1959, when it was demolished. Her son Granger used lumber and brick from it to construct the new Colonial Inn restaurant and lounge in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. In 1954 the Lammon sisters had jointly bought Silver Sands Cottages in Destin, Florida, and then sold Jewett their interest. Ruth built two rental houses in Destin in the late 1950's.

Ruth's eyes had been impaired in the early months of her life when measles settled in them and left them extremely weak. It did not stop her from reading - an avid reader, she still delights in reading anything she can get her hands on, especially history. Talented with her hands, she can create flower arrangements or tables of food that rival the most experienced florist and caterer. She is a Bible student among other things. A story about Ruth, written by Ruth while in grammar school.

RUTH, A SCOTCH LASSIE
Ruth, a Scotch lassie, entered this world
In the county site of Holmes County
In the Land of Flowers.
This event, of which I had nothing to do,
Occurred in the sultry month of August
And in the year President McKinley was assassinated.

"Being the first granddaughter on both sides, so much love was lavished on her as any one baby could well get along with. And by some quaint ancestral notions missed what most babies get, such as catnip teas, toddies, sugar tits and pacifiers. Her name is Ruth Beatrice, this last in honor of her mother and the former from the Biblical story (and as it is said, it is all in a name). From her youth up she has been building a foundation that will enable her to make her life worth while. As "lives of great men all remind us that we too can make our lives sublime."

*When Ruth meets Boaz she will ask, "Why have you found grace in my eyes".

Some lines of poetry written by Ruth in her childhood:

"Love is like an onion
We taste it with delight
But when it is gone we
Wonder what made us bite."

Died:
From "A Mess of Lammons"

Dies in Emory Hospital, Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia at age 78

Ruth married Addis Lee Bruner on 31 Mar 1928 in Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. Addis was born on 31 Mar 1893 in Houston County, Alabama; died on 6 Dec 1949 in Donaldsonville, Seminole County, Georgia; was buried in Cottonwood City Cemetery, Cottonwood, Houston County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married Carmi Ledwell Winecoff in 1948. Carmi was born on 21 Apr 1913; died on 26 Sep 1997; was buried in Destin Memorial Cemetery, Destin, Okaloosa County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons", by Elmer Burns Lammon

General Notes: Ibid. 1910 Houston Co. Alabama Census. Info from sister, Jewett Lammon Moore, via James Edward Moore.

Inez and her husband Henry lived in Miami for years, but retired to Destin, Florida.

--Frances DuBose

"Inez was named for Inez Casey, daughter of Bill Casey, Beatrice's uncle. The Book "Inez" by Augusta J. Evans was popular in the early 1800's and that was where Inez Casey's name originated." ? Jewett Lammon

Inez married William Henry Martin on 6 Jul 1914 in Defuniak Springs, Walton County, Florida. William was born on 1 Nov 1914 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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General Notes: 1910 Houston Co. Alabama Census. B-Info from James Edward Moore, 6145 Old Bethel Road, Crestview, FL 32536

Daniel C. Lammon was a Navy man. He married a Lammon, but was divorced-- (Info from Frances DuBose.)

B&D-wife, Elizabeth "Betty" Maletzki

D.C. was named for his father, Daniel.

The following are from notes and records of Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff, courtesy of her son Granger:

Jewett was a cheerleader (the only one for several years) and seldom missed a sports event. Once the football coach admonished her brother, D.C. Lammon for not playing well and told him that if he did not improve his playing technique he was going to send Jewett in to take his place. D.C. played so hard, he broke his ankle but he would not come out of the game until it was over. When her brother D.C. was very young - possibly four years old, he prayed for a Billy goat. Every night. There wasn't a goat within miles of their place. But one night mysteriously one appeared at their door - just a little thing.

D.C. was overjoyed. His papa built him a little cart, complete with leather harness so the goat could pull D.C.and Jewett around for a ride. But the goat grew and got more unruly. One day he ran away with Jewett in the seat of the cart and tried to jump a fence, spilling Jewett out on the ground. That was to be the end of poor old Billy. They cut his throat and served him up for a meal; But Jewett cried and cried. She can still hear him yelping as he was killed. She refused to eat poor Billy.
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Daniel married Ovie Campbell on 12 Jun 1934 in Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Elizabeth Maletzki on 13 Aug 1946 in Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, Texas. Elizabeth was born on 28 Apr 1914; died on 22 May 2002 in San Pedro, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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General Notes: Info from James Edward Moore Jr.

Ann Lois Moore Hawryluk wrote the following. Copy obtained courtesy of Granger Bruner, son of Ruth Lammon. -- EBL

"Ann Lois Moore Hawryluk attended Belhaven, Miss, College after graduating from Leon High School (where she was in May Court her senior year). Enrolled at FSU in 1959 and attended two years. Married Peter Paul Hawryluk (a Princeton graduate) on Feb.20, 1960, in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida They moved to Philadelphia for 2-1/2 years and then to Miami. Florida, where Pete was employed as electrical engineer for General Electric. Ann continued her schooling at the University of Miami."

The following account is written by Ann Moore Hawryluk, the daughter of Jewett Lammon Moore and James Edward Moore:

"Here is a brief history of the Lammon lineage from its first American beginnings. John D. Lammon, (Jewett's first cousin), generously provided this information in January 1999. He has a wealth of knowledge concerning the family history, which was handed down from one generation to another. John D. is a great reference and can be contacted at P.O. Box 696, Jackson, Alabama, 36545. His phone number is (334) 246-4493. His lovely wife is Melanie. He has two sons living in the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, area who are probably very informed of the family history, as well. Here is my recollection of what he told me and what I already knew of my mother's parents and siblings.

"Sometime during the last quarter of the 18th Century, my great-great-great Grandfather, Duncan Lammon was the first ancestor to reside in America. He was a young man approximately 26 to 28 years old when he committed some infraction in his native country of Scotland. Fearing the King's wrath and possible beheadment, he hid out one night and stowed away on a ship which ultimately brought him to America (specifically North Carolina). Before fleeing Scotland he confided his plan of escape to his parents who admonished him to always remember to name the first born sons in subsequent generations, Duncan, after the King. We don't have a great deal of information about this ancestor other than he married after his arrival in America and had many offspring one of which was his first son, Duncan, who was born in 1792. [Actually, Duncan had an older brother, Daniel, who was born in 1787. - EBL] This second Duncan is my great-great Grandfather. The original Duncan did later learn from his kinsfolk in his native Scotland that the infraction that he perceived to be great enough to merit risking his life to escape to America was later deemed very minor and only a minimum penalty would have applied. The descendents of the original Duncan are scattered throughout the country including factions in Alabama, Michigan, Ohio, upper NY State, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Texas.

"My great-great grandfather, Duncan, as noted, was born in 1792 and was of the first generation with its beginnings here in America. He married a woman named Ann. He settled in Alabama through the most extraordinary circumstance. He was on a wagon train that had stopped for camp in the Ozark area in 1833. On that particular night the " stars fell on Alabama" and it was such a momentous and astonishing event that those who were gathered there were certain that it was surely the second coming of Christ. So bedazzled by the occurrence he decided to settle there considering, I presume, that it had been a sign from God. He and Ann are buried in Ozark, Alabama, at the Post Oak Methodist Cemetery (not to be confused with the Post Oak Baptist Cemetery).

"This second Duncan and his wife Ann had several children. John Duncan Lammon was their first born son though they had daughters preceding him. John Duncan is my great-grandfather and was born in 1839. He and his wife had nine children and, Daniel, my grandfather was their seventh. John Duncan subsequently joined the Confederate Army and was assigned to the 6th Alabama Infantry, in Company B. We do not know his rank. He is buried in the Hartford, Alabama, City Cemetery along with MANY of our Lammon ancestors. There is a very tall monument that marks his grave in that cemetery which my cousin, John D. Lammon, has in recent years had restored (the base had deteriorated).

"My grandfather is Daniel Lammon. He married my grandmother, Beatrice Bailey, and they had four children, Ruth, Inez, D.C., and my mother Jewett, who was the youngest. Ruth was born in 1901; Inez was born in 1905; D.C.'s birth year is uncertain but he is older than Jewett who was born June 3, 1910. Daniel and Beatrice raised their children in the Slocomb, Alabama and Graceville, Florida, areas. Daniel was an accomplished carpenter. He worked at a lumber mill in northwest Florida during part of his life. He also built houses. Daniel Lammon is buried in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. He died in the mid-1940's." Ann Moore Hawryluk.
Ibid. Info from son, James Edward Moore Jr., 6145 Old Bethel Road, Crestview, Fl 32536 (1996).

Ruth Lammon wrote the following note. Obtained courtesy of her son, Granger Bruner. -- EBL]

"Jewett is thought to have been named for a Doctor. She and James met while both were living in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, and were married in Ponce de Leon, Florida, by Rev. A.M. Moore at the Presbyterian Church on Oct. 10, 1931, before a Saturday night revival congregation as witnesses. No family other than Rev. Moore was present. Spent honeymoon night at Martin Hotel, Dothan, Alabama; Ate their first meal as newlyweds with family members at Aunt Yancie Griffin's in Dothan. Then went by to see Jewett's mother, Mrs. Beatrice Lammon in Slocomb, Alabama, where she was Southeastern Telephone Company Supervisor. Went on to the Cove Hotel in Panama City, Sunday night, Oct. 11, for rest of honeymoon stay.

Children of Jewett Lammon Moore and James Edward Moore, Sr.

Quinton Inez, March 25, 1933
James Edward, Jr., Oct. 5, 1934
Arthur Bailey, Jan. 11, 1937
Ann Lois, March 20, 1939

Quinton was named for a family friend, Quinton Strickland Smith who was a nurse from Dothan, Alabama, and for Aunt Inez Lammon, her mother's sister. James was named for his daddy and great granddaddy and was called James Edward as his friends called his daddy James or Jim. Arthur was named for his granddaddy Moore (Rev. Arthur Monroe Moore) and for the Bailey family (Jewett's granddaddy was Ben Bailey and her mother's maiden name was Beatrice Bailey Lammon). Ann Lois was named for her daddy's only sister, Anne Lois Moore Buchhorn who resided after her marriage in Texas City, Texas.

Jewett was outstanding in speech recitations while in Graceville, Florida, high school. She was a cheerleader and seldom missed a sports event. Once the football coach admonished her brother, D.C. Lammon, about not playing well and said if he didn't improve his game he was going to send Jewett into the game in his place. D.C. played so hard he broke his ankle but he wouldn't come out of the game until it was over. Jewett graduated from Graceville High School in 1929. She then worked for the Southeastern Telephone Co, in Hartford and Samson, Alabama, and in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. She became supervisor over 7 exchanges but had to resign when she married (company policy).

When James and Jewett married they lived in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, where James entered an unsuccessful race for tax assessor. He went then to Austin, Tex., to enter the University of Texas and Jewett went home to her mother's in Slocomb, Alabama, to await the arrival of their first child. Quinton was born March 25, 1933 and her daddy didn't get to see her until she was about three months old, when his school semester ended and he returned to Florida and Alabama. Beatrice Lammon, Jewett's mother, died two weeks later on June 22, 1933.

In August of 1933, Jewett, James and the five month old baby Quinton went by train to Austin, Texas. The train had to be ferried across the Mississippi River at New Orleans. They were in Austin from August 1933 to the Spring of 1935. James, Jr. was born in Austin on Oct 5, 1934. James, Sr. got a degree from the University of Texas and Theological Degree from Austin Presbyterian Seminary.

The family then moved to Irving, Texas, where he took his first pastorate at $110 a month. They moved next to Falfurris, Texas over the Christmas holidays of 1936. A few weeks later, on Jan 11, 1937, Arthur Bailey was born at home, weighing 12 pounds Ann Lois was born in a hospital in Alice, Texas by Cesarean section, March 20, 1939, while the family was living in Falfurris. The family now moved to Conroe, Texas, in 1939 and stayed until 1943. The Presbyterian congregation met at the high school for worship and at the Moore home for various Sunday school classes until the new church was constructed. Ann was the first baby baptized as a Presbyterian in Montgomery County, Texas.

The next move took the Moore family to Big Spring in West Texas in March of 1943. They remained until Christmas 1945. James was pastor of First Presbyterian. Jewett and the children spent part of 1946 in DeFuniak Springs, with Jewett's sister Ruth; and part of 1947 in Miami Springs with her other sister Inez. [because James wanted to divorce Jewett - per Quin Moore Sherrer. - EBL]. Jewett and the children went back to DeFuniak for 4 years, where Jewett managed the DeFuniak Hotel for sister Ruth. They moved to Tallahassee next, where Jewett bought the Monroe Inn in 1951. While at the Monroe Inn, Jewett was up at 5 a.m. every day - to get breakfast going and lunch underway. She fed many college students, construction men, and state employees at noon and dinner hour. She usually had 25 to 40 boarders. Meals were served family style for 50 cents. Later prices went up to 75 cents per meal and room and board varied from $12.50 a week to $17.50, depending on private bath. Many of the college boys who lived with her, or just ate with her daily, adopted her as their "second mother."

While in Tallahassee she launched all 4 children at Florida State University and, in time, the three oldest graduated from there, with Ann having completed 2 years. She got her degree from the University of North Florida after her children were born. In 1954 the Lammon sisters had jointly purchased Silver Sands Cottages, Destin, Florida, and in 1959 Jewett moved to Destin to manage the Cottages which she had purchased two years previously from the other sisters (Inez and Ruth).

James continued to live in Texas and lived in Austin and Dallas while employed by the University of Texas Extension Division*

When Jewett was 10 years old, in the 4th grade, she was looking out of the second story of the new school one afternoon just before it was time for school to end. Actually she'd walked to the window to spit out of it - which was against the rules. But she looked down and saw old man McKeever coming out of the basement. He was acting a bit wild so she called Radius Wadford over to look at Mr. McKeever. Moments later fire broke out from the basement. Inez and Ruth were on first floor and saw smoke before those on 2nd floor knew of it. Kids ran out of the building.

Because it was discovered so soon it did little damage. But someone had put shavings in the basement and set them on fire. All evidence pointed to Mr. McKeever. Jewett and Radius had to go with a schoolteacher to testify at McKeever's trial in Marianna. Jewett's mother had packed her a sack lunch and told her to eat it. The others went to a cafe to eat lunch but Jewett had to eat her lunch alone - she didn't have the money and she had to do what her mother had told her. As it turned out she was paid $3.25 for testifying. Mr. McKeever was acquitted - thought to be a bit touched. But Jewett had gotten to ride all the way from Graceville to Marianna in a very fine automobile and had a day off from school to boot. But was she scared. Not half as scared as the schoolteacher who had to testify, too, she says.
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Jewett married James Edward Moore, Sr on 10 Oct 1931 in Ponce De Leon, Holmes County, Florida. James was born on 9 Jun 1910 in Smith County, Mississippi; died on 3 May 1995 in Magee, Simpson County, Mississippi; was buried on 5 May 1995 in Sharon Cemetery, Coats, Simpson County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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General Notes: Personal Info via phone and letter from sister, Barbara Jem Lammon Helland (1996).
Killed during WWII; lost at sea.

Note from son, Mark A. Lammon:
My father's name was spelled Holcombe on his birth certificate but my mother said that he didn't like the "e" and usually spelled it Holcomb.

[The following article is from "The Lookout", dated June, 1945. Conveyed to me by Mark A. Lammon - EBL]

Fifteen American Heroes

Fifteen American merchant seamen, including the vessel's master, lost their lives but all 19 Norwegian refugees who were aboard were saved when the Liberty ship HENRY BACON was sunk by German planes off the Norway coast recently, the War Shipping Administration reported. The heroism, seamanship and self-sacrifice of the American crew brought a fervent expression of appreciation from Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian High Command in London to whom the refugees related details of their escape from death in Arctic waters. After carrying 7,500 tons of war cargo to Murmansk, Russia, the HENRY BACON, named in honor of the famous architect who designed the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, started home in 'convoy. As passengers she carried 19 of several hundred Norwegian refugees who were being evacuated with the convoy to the United Kingdom.

Off the coast of Norway the war freighter twice lost contact with the convoy because of heavy weather and finally became the target of more than a score of enemy planes. Witnesses report five were shot down by the Navy armed guard of the ship before an aerial torpedo plunged into the hold under the No. 5 hatch. The vessel began settling at once but until she went down her guns kept firing. When the order to abandon ship was given one of the four lifeboats was smashed in lowering and another had been damaged by weather and capsized. Two were successfully launched, one carrying the 19 refugees and a few crewmen and the other, 15 crewmen and seven gunners. All these and other survivors who had jumped overboard or had taken to rafts were later picked up by British naval craft. All senior officers having been lost in the sinking, Joseph L. Scott, acting third officer, of 144 Main Street, Norway, Maine, makes the official report on the loss of the HENRY BACON. He related that the master, Capt. Alfred Carini, of 4415 Thirty-fourth Avenue, Long Island City, N. Y. went down with his ship. He was last seen on the bridge.

Other heroic actions reported by Scott were:
Robert J. Hunt, purser, whose mother, Mrs. Mary Scott live sat 422 Arlington Street, Greensboro, N. C., might have saved his own life had he not stopped to give first aid to a wounded gunner.
Donald F. Haviland, chief engineer, whose next of kin is his sister, Mrs. F. McGrath, 51 Kensington Road, Weymouth, Mass., was safe in a lifeboat but chose to give his seat to a younger man and returned to the sinking ship. He was not seen again.
Holcomb Lammon, boatswain, of 1005 Montgomery Street, Mobile, Ala., saved the lives of many before losing his own, Scott reports.
From Crown Prince Olav, commander-in-chief of the Norwegian Forces, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land, USN, retired, War Shipping Administrator, has received the following letter:
"I am in receipt of a communication from the Norwegian High Command in London commending highly the spirit, loyalty and ability of the officers and crew of the vessel HENRY BACON, of the United States commercial fleet.

"On receipt of this heroic tale I find it incumbent upon me to express to you, Sir, my appreciation and admiration of the outstanding discipline and self-sacrifice displayed by the officers and crew of the HENRY BACON, in pact with the finest tradition of American sailors."


Taken from U.S. Merchant Ships Sunk or Damaged in World War II
"SS Henry Bacon, Aerial Torpedo, Sunk 2/23/45,
Casualties: Liberty Crew 15, Armed Guard 7"
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The following are excerpts from the recently published (2001) book, "The Last Voyage of the SS Henry Bacon". I have included every instance in which Holcombe Lammon is mentioned in the book, along with, I hope, enough of the surrounding story to give the reader an idea of what is going on. The two Merchant Marine crewmen of interest to us are Holcombe Lammon, Jr., and his younger brother, Allen. - EBL, Jan 2002]
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"On November 19 the Bacon docked in New York where additional minor repairs were completed. Shipping articles were signed on November 21, 1944. Boatswain [bos'n] Holcomb Lammon Jr. signed on the Bacon that same day. Lammon previously had served on two other ships, the SS Azalea City [December 18, 1943-March 3, 1944] and the SS Jerome K. Jones [April 3, 1944-June 12, 1944]. On June 12 the Jones came under air raids and attacks by U-boats five or six times. He was an experienced hand."
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[The following is an account of what happened after some crewmen of the Henry Bacon, docked at Murmansk, Russia, had stowed away a couple of Russian girls with the intention of taking them to England. - EBL]
? The lieutenant began an investigation "and they were found in number 5 hold... well stocked with blankets and provisions, supplied by Merchant mess boys." They were taken to Sippola's cabin, where they were questioned. They didn't provide much resistance, even though they knew they would be sent to the salt mines. Lieutenant Sippola had taken away the knives the women had secreted in their long felt boots. They remained under guard until they were reluctantly turned back to the Soviets. No one at the time said they knew how the women got aboard. Some theorized that they worked as checkers - comparing the cargo being unloaded with their clipboard lists - during the day. "The last day of unloading," Normand Croteau suggested, "they never got off.... The only thing the crew had to go on about who brought them aboard was by identifying the provisions and blankets. Knowing that whoever brought them aboard wouldn't use his own blankets-but someone else's-we didn't prejudge anyone."

The true story of the Russian women was not told until David Goodrich decided to come clean - years later:
"Mike Norris and I met two sisters-about 17 - 18. They lived in a boxcar; blankets and straw for a bed. They wanted to get to England, [so] we dressed them up in overcoats and wool hats we got from fellow crew members. It was snowing hard, and we got past the Russian guards at shipside; got up the ladder and crawled along the deck to the chain lockers. No one saw us. We went to the steward and told him what we had done. He gave us food for them. We got them out of the locker and put them in number 5 hold. It was warm next to the shaft alley. The next morning we heard a commotion on deck. The girls climbed down the ladder out of the hold and were being brought to the captain to be interviewed. A tugboat came alongside with military officers and a female crew. The girls would not turn Mike and I in, [but] the Russians would not let the ship leave until someone confessed. Mike and I decided to admit it to the captain. The Russians wanted to put us in a salt mine in Siberia, but we were away from the dock, so got away on a technicality. As the girls started down the gangway, the first one was grabbed and thrown in the hold. The second one jumped in the sea. The Russian crew only laughed and did nothing. She was turning blue. Our bos'n [Holcomb Lammon] jumped from the ship and rescued her. She was thrown in with her sister. About two hours later we received a signal that they had been sent to a labor camp. I think it was then I understood what Communism
was all about."
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[One really needs to read the book to appreciate the following account, but I will try to summarize the situation. After a valiant battle with 23 German JU-88 torpedo bombers off the coast of Norway, a torpedo fatally hit the Henry Bacon. Because of the ship's having taken on 19 Norwegian refugees and having had several lifeboats damaged through various causes, there were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all of the passengers and crew. All of the refugees were put aboard the first lifeboat. - EBL]
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? When Captain Carini ordered the launching of the second and only remaining lifeboat with Joe Scott in charge, he expressed optimism about the Bacon. "She won't sink, she won't sink," he said repeatedly. "She's a good ship." Belief again overshadowed reality. The captain believed the ship would stay afloat a long time. He thought that the British destroyers would reach them in time. What he didn't know was that the ships were about sixty miles away - about a two-hour run for a destroyer. And, by the time they arrived, the Henry Bacon would be gone for about an hour and forty minutes. Even though he held out hope that the Bacon would not sink, when the men gathered to board the last lifeboat, Carini watched carefully to make sure that the Navy gunners who had performed so magnificently on the guns just a few minutes before would get their share of seats. Oiler Woodie Pozen explained that at first "no one volunteered to go toward that lifeboat as they were afraid they might take someone's place. Finally some of the Navy boys got in, followed by members of the crew." Bos'n Holcomb Lammon, 23, and his brother Allan, a 19-year-old deckman, were present at the launching, and a choice befitting a biblical Solomon was made. It was decided that one brother should board the last lifeboat and the other should stay. Holcomb remembering his duties and responsibilities, decided to stay; Allan, thinking of his brother's wife and children, with great reluctance agreed to be the one to leave.
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Official reports stated that there were more than thirty men stranded aboard the Henry Bacon without lifeboats or rafts. Goodrich puts the number at "about twelve." All crewmen had been warned that no human could survive in the Arctic Ocean in the winter for more than a short time, about five minutes when the water was 38 degrees Fahrenheit. Two of the more ingenious men-Bos'n Holcomb Lammon and Gunner's Mate Frank Reid-began making rafts even before the last lifeboat was launched. They used the heavy 12-by-12 inch beams left on the deck of the Bacon, previously used to cradle the locomotives that they had carried to Murmansk, Clyde Loar remembered. The lumber was located in the chain room. "We figured that the men would need something to climb on when the Bacon went under," Reid explained. Working independently but assisted by other crew members, each man formed a rectangle with four beams and lashed the ends together with rope. Heavy planks from the hatches and deck were tied on for a covering. It was a Herculean task considering how little time they had. After completing their rafts, both Lammon and Reid turned them over to others. Lammon, a veteran of the SS Azalea City and the SS Jerome K Jones, made his way to the main deck forward and, giving no thought to saving himself, concentrated on assisting other members of the crew to get clear of the ship. "His endeavors in the short time between our torpedoing and the time he jumped over the side no doubt saved many lives," Third Mate Scott stated in his official report to the US Navy.
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Howard Gray, a 17-year old Merchant Marine wiper, recalled, "The sea was so rough it was impossible to maneuver the boat back to pick up anybody. It was all we could do to keep from being swamped." Scott said, "My heart sank very low when we were on the crest of a high wave and I could see the bow of the Henry Bacon going down. The next time we rode high, the Henry Bacon had sunk; how many went down with her I didn't know. Oh, how I wish I could have saved more lives." In a deposition made by Joe Scott on March 23, 1945, he indicated the following casualties: Captain Alfred Carini, Chief Engineer Donald F. Haviland, Lynn R. Palmer, "he was with the captain on the bridge just before the ship sank and probably went down with the ship..." Carl D. H. Fubel, "... just as the boilers blew up shortly before the vessel sank. Walker said that the ventilator blew up and parts of it smashed in Fubel's head. He believes that Mr. Fubel was killed instantly..." Robert J. Hunt, "...had been feeling very sick for some days before we were torpedoed. He jumped over the side just before the Henry Bacon went down. Before leaving the ship, he had rendered first aid to one of the gun crew..." Holcomb Lammon, " ... was last seen on the main deck forward, endeavoring to improvise a life raft. He jumped over the side just before the vessel sank..." Robert Cramer, was last"... seen jumping over the side of the ship..." Frederick C. Funken, "...was seen jumping over the side of the ship..." Donald P. Schiesher, "... some of the crew informed me that this man froze to death and his body slipped off [the improvised raft] into the water..." Edgar B. Snyder, "...suffered from a cold for about a week [before the Bacon sank]. He jumped over the side of the ship just before she sank..." Joseph E. Provencal, "... while [he] was being lifted out of the water by one of the destroyers, he lost his grip and drifted into the screws of the propeller...." John W. Mastracci, "... died of exposure [on an improvised raft] ?Cornelius Kearns, "...he was standing [on the starboard side of number 3 hatch} just before the ship upturned and sank..." George W. Shipka, "...froze to death on the improvised raft..." and James Martin, "... the captain of the destroyer Opportune informed me that this man was last seen in the water alongside the destroyer. They could not reach him as his body drifted away. Jerome Gerold stated in an official report that "four Navy men were lost while being hoisted aboard the destroyer Opportune by hooks. They had on kapok life jackets which seemed to be entirely inadequate for any strain by these hooks, as a result of which these life jackets ripped and the four men were lost." In the same document, Gerold said he saw Sippola "in the water hanging to a piece of wood. When the destroyer came alongside they threw him a line. He let go of the piece of wood to grab the line but failed? He went down and was not seen after that." He attested that four members of the gun crew, Armstrong, McQuistion, Lomelino, and Frank Reid, were also witnesses.

In a document from the Office of the Chief of Naval Personnel, the list of Armed Guard grew to include: Sippola, Allard, Burr, Harlacher, Mayden, Potvin, and Rubley. "The date of such determination [of death] be fixed as of 15 May 1945, the date on which information conclusively established their deaths?." Normand Croteau was also listed as missing in action, but that error was later corrected. When he was deposed, night cook and baker George Bartin remembered: "Aside from Lynn R. Palmer, whom I saw dead in the water [He recalled that Palmer's body "was motionless, his head hung forward and foam was coming from his mouth?. I understand that the doctor on the British destroyer informed the crew not to pick up anyone in the water who was foaming at the mouth."], I know of three others in the crew who died in the water before I was rescued. They were: Purser Robert J. Hunt, "about twenty minutes after I was in the water, I saw this man let go of a piece of timber to which he was clinging...he drifted away from me...; Able-bodied Seaman Frederick C. Funken, "about one hour after I saw Mr. Hunt, I saw this man motionless in the water. He was foaming at the mouth...his
body drifted away from me...; Bos'n Holcomb Lammon, "was clinging to the same timber that I was... because of the excitement of seeing the rescue ship, he let go of the timber and as soon as he did so, his body submerged and never came to the surface again. He had discarded his life preserver some time before....
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RESCUE
? Pozen said. "Then I looked up and saw the crosstrees of the destroyer. I waved my arms like the devil. With wonderful maneuvering the captain of the destroyer, which I later found was HMS Zambesi, got to us." Burbine disagreed with the hand waving. "We were unable to stand up when they set us on the deck [of the Zambesi]. Our clothes were frozen to our bodies, and had to be cut off. We were so frozen, we couldn't use our hands to reach for the ropes."
"Burbine and the Navy man (Silas Doe) were able with the aid of a few sailors from the destroyer to get aboard," Pozen continued. "I had hold of the heaving line which they had thrown to me. They told me to tie it around myself, but my hands were so numb and I was so exhausted that I called to them and told them I couldn't make it." But, they would not let him perish. "They yelled down to me, 'Hold that line; don't let go!'" One of the destroyer's crew members, whose name Pozen would never know" came down a Jacob's ladder onto the raft and tied the line around me. I weighed so much with all my wet gear on that it took fifteen or twenty men to pull me aboard.

"Four men grabbed me, one by each arm and one by each leg and carried me facedown into the shower room. Then they took off all my clothes, put blankets on me and took me, to a bench and made a bed for me. Later the doctor came in and asked me how I felt, but I was too dazed to know. "Then they brought in George Bartin, night cook and baker. They sat him on the table. He was frothing at the mouth and had a vacant stare in his eyes. I called his name, but he didn't answer. Finally they put him into bed and that was the last I saw of him until the next day."

Bartin had had a rough time of it. He and Bosun Holcomb Lammon were submerged in the Arctic for several hours and shortly before the destroyers appeared they were clinging to the same piece of timber. "Because of the excitement of seeing the rescue ship," Bartin related years later, "he (Lammon) let go the timber and as soon as he did so his body submerged and never came to the surface again. He had discarded his life preserver some time before."
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The Meritorious Service Citation attached to Holcomb Lammon's official record states, "He worked indefatigably until the last moment and then jumped over the side. He was not among those rescued. His courage, skill and determination to save lives, without thought to his own safety, will be a lasting inspiration to all seamen of the United States Merchant Marine." Lammon was awarded the Mariner's Medal posthumously.
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Holcombe married Alice Marie Schieffelin on 28 Nov 1941 in Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama. Alice was born on 22 Mar 1916 in Fairhope, Baldwin County, Alabama; died on 11 Apr 1998 in Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama; was buried on 13 Apr 1998 in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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Allen served aboard the "SS Henry Bacon" and was one of the survivors of its sinking.
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Allen married Mary Otillie DavisChickasaw, Mobile County, Alabama. Mary was born on 5 Oct 1923 in Chickasaw, Mobile County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married John Rudolph Helland [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

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]

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

Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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The following information is from Regina by telephone conversation with EBL.

Regina said that when she was young, she was a tomboy and could climb a tree faster, pitch balls harder, and hit farther than any of the boys.

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Family/Spouse: Benge. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dean Rundquist. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Kenneth related the following to Elmer Burns Lammon by telephone.
Kenneth "Butch" Lammon spent 8 years in the US Army, working as a heavy vehicle driver. He served in Germany, Austria, Italy and Alaska. After completing his Army service, he worked for a supermarket chain as a truck driver. He was also once employed in metal stamping. A member of the Teamsters union, Kenneth retired in Stanton, California.

In California, Kenneth likes to camp in Yosemite and Sequoya national parks. He also likes to camp in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah.

Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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General Notes: Notes from the author based upon telephone conversations with Jim:

Jim grew up in California; served in the US Air Force; flew in B-36s, among other airplanes, as a tail gunner. He did aerial photography. After leaving the AF, he was a professional photographer and, displaying an unusual mix of skills, a machinist.

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Family/Spouse: unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Notes:

The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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General Notes: Note from Wanda Gale Stafford:

Census:
-1900 Dale County, AL Census: listed as 6 years old, born April 1894, in AL. Parents born in AL. Living in the household of his parents.
-1910 Holmes County, FL Census: listed as 16 year old nephew in the household of Bertie C. Smith. Two homes down lives Era Mittie Snell Thurman and family. Era is his (half) aunt, sister to his father.
-1910 Geneva County, AL Census: 15 years old in the household of his parents. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.

NOTE: Jamie Snell is listed in "2" 1910 Census.
The Geneva County 1910 Census was taken 4/15/1910. Jamie is 15. He should be listed as 16. His birthday was on April 4th. The Holmes County 1910 Census was taken 5/5/1910. Jamie is 16.
Per his daughter, Mary Julia Snell Butler, Jamie ran away from home. He was raised by his grandmother Smith.

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Died:
The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon
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Obituary: Florida Times Union - 1973-04-08

Snell - Mr. Jamie Wesley Snell, 79, of 1724 Market St., died Saturday at his home. A native of Alabama he move to Jacksonville nine years ago from Bradenton. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Julia Butler, Jacksonville; three sons, Cleveland H. Snell, Columbus, GA., James Wesley, and Tommie Snell, Albany, Ga.; two sisters, Mrs. Callie Mae Waters, Bonifay, and Mrs. W. R. Newman, Ft Walton Beach; a brother, Baud Snell, Blountstown; 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the chapel of George H. Hewell and Son Northside Funeral Home, 4737 Main Street. Bural will be Tuesday in Chipley.

Notes:
-Callie Mae's married name is Walters.
-Mrs W. R. Newman is Martha Ellen that first married ? Kelly and then married William R. Newman.
-Baud Snell is William Elias. Called Baud by family.

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Jamie married Sarah Ladella Holmes in May 1917 in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. Sarah was born on 18 Feb 1893 in Coffee County, Alabama; died on 18 Oct 1954 in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia; was buried in Riverdale Cemetery, Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
General Notes: Note from Wanda Gale Stafford:
Census:
-1900 Dale County, AL Census: listed as 4 years old, born May 1896, in AL. Living in the household of her parents. Parents born in AL.
-1910 Geneva County, AL Census: 13 years old living in the household of her parents. Born in AL, parents born in AL.

Family/Spouse: John Henry Hodges. John was born on 10 Aug 1889 in Alabama; died on 17 Jul 1974 in Chipley, Washington County, Florida; was buried on 21 Jul 1974 in Glenwood Cemetery, Chipley, Washington County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes: Note from Wanda Gale Stafford:

Census:

-1900 Dale County, AL Census: listed as "Elias", 2 years old, born February 1898, in AL. Living in the household of his parents. Parents born in AL.

-1910 Geneva County, AL Census: listed as William E., son, age 11, living in the household of his parents. Born in AL, parents born in AL.

Birth:
"A Mess of Lammons" says that his birth year is 1898.

www.fold3.com says that his birth year is 1899.

Family/Spouse: Leila Irene Stewart. Leila was born on 17 Apr 1908 in Dothan, Houston County, Alabama; died on 22 Dec 1998 in Panama City, Bay County, Florida; was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Blountstown, Calhoun County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes: Note from Wanda Gale Stafford:

Census:

-1900 Dale County, AL Census: listed as 8 months old, born September 1899, in AL. Living in the household of her parents. Parents born in AL.

-1910 Geneva County, AL Census: 10 years old living in the household of her parents. Born in AL, parents born in AL.

Family/Spouse: Unknown Lampp. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Callie married Isaac Covington on 21 Sep 1915 in Washington County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Callie married Oscar Henry Harris on 6 May 1940 in Washington County, Florida. Oscar was born in 1904; died in 1958; was buried in Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Chipley, Washington County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Callie married George Ephraim Walters on 11 Mar 1964 in Washington County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown Kelly. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Rufus Newman. William was born on 17 Sep 1904; died on 20 Jan 1989; was buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Census: -1900 Geneva County, AL Census: Born Oct. 1893. 6 years old. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.

Notes:

Census: -1900 Geneva County, AL Census: Born Jan 1897. 3 years old. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.

Family/Spouse: Nellie Moss. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown Oppert. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obituary: Columbus Enquirer
6/25/1943, Page 2
Coley M. Smith Dies At Hospital
Coley M. Smith, 34, 3306 Laurel Avenue, died at City Hospital last night after a week's illnes. Mr. Smith had lived in Columbus two years and was formerly of Slocum (Slocomb), Ala. He was born Jan. 31, 1909. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eunice Smith; his mother, Mrs. Dora L. Culverhouse; four sons, Casey, Duncan, Jimmy and Boy Smith, all of Clocum (Slocomb), Ala.; two daughters, Teresa and Tiny, of Slocum, Ala.; three brothers, J.L. and W.K. Smith of Columbus, and W.W. Smith of Slocum; three sisters, Mrs. Loyd Mewbourne and Mrs. J.D. Sincher of Columbus, and Mrs. Cody Voi?? of Knoxville, Tenn.

Note: Descendent Jon (Ana) Smith stated there were errors listed.

Email from Ana regarding obituary errors:

Spouse: Claudia Bell BURNS
Birth: 15 Feb 1908, Holmes County, FL
Death: 22 Jun 1990, Slocomb, Geneva County Alabama
Burial: Burns Assembly of God, Slocomb, AL
Father: Shines Brinkley BURNS (1880-1964)
Mother: Effie Mae WILLIAMS (1883-1966)
Marr: 12 Mar 1928, Geneva County Alabama

Children: Colskey (1929-)
Duncan "Smitty" (1931-)
Jimmy Earl
Teresa May (1936-)
David M.
Wanda Sue (1940-)

Coley married Claudia Bell Burns on 12 Mar 1928 in Burns Assembly of God, Slocomb, Geneva County, Alabama. Claudia was born on 15 Feb 1908 in Holmes County, Florida; died on 22 Jun 1990. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mattie Lou Joiner. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth: ca Sep 1908, Alabama
Census: -1910 Holmes County, FL Census: 1 year and 8 months old. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.
-1920 Holmes County, FL Census: 11 years old. Attending school. Can read and write. Born in AL. Parents born in AL.

Notes:

Census: -1920 Holmes County, FL Census: 5 years old. Born in Florida. Parents born in AL.

Notes:

General Notes: B-1900 Alabama Soundex Info from Jane Atkinson Linton, 10 Jowers Rd., Gordon, Alabama 36343.

The following is an excerpt from "Some of My Memories", Clyde Johnson, 1996.
"In 1915, while attending a camp meeting in Dothan, Alabama (a town approximately 100 miles southeast of Evergreen) Dad met Sadie Lammon. After a courtship (the details of which I know little) of about one year they were married March 14, 1916. Rev. O. B. Justice performed the ceremony. After a brief honeymoon, they visited my maternal grandmother and me. Until that visit, my stepmother had never seen me and I can remember, vaguely, going to her and into her arms. I remember crying when they made ready to leave. It was not their intention to take me from my grandmother at that time, but Sadie, for whatever reason, decided she would take me immediately. What a responsibility for my stepmother. What a change in the life of my grandmother who had cared for me for three years plus What a change for my father. I can't know the change in my life. But surely the four of us carried the effects of that day all of our lives.?

Daughter Rachel Johnson Rigby provided the following note. It was a handwritten note of unknown date by her mother, Sadie. __(Elmer Burns Lammon)
"My Grandy L [Grandfather James Lammon] owned lot of land in Hartford - given - Grist mill and variety shop - and his children lived around him. He had large 2-story house across the street from where we lived. Where Avis lives now [700 W. Main St. - EBL. per Jane Atkinson] with porch all around house and decorative banister at top of porch and also at floor - made in their variety shop - " Sadie Lammon Johnson

The following note contributed by granddaughter Rebekah Rigby:
Herbert & Sadie
My "Pa Johnson" (Charles Herbert Johnson) and "Ma Johnson" (Sadie Lammon Johnson) were wonderful grandparents. How could a kid ever ask for any better? Whenever we went to Andalusia to visit we usually left after school and would make it there before Pa Johnson would close his shoe shop. The moment we drove up, we became the most important "customer" that there was. Pa Johnson would come out to the car, if he beat us, because we were usually scrambling to get out and get in that wonderful world of shoe repair. To this day when I go into a shoe shop the smell brings back so many great memories and I can close my eyes and see my Pa Johnson.

He would save his wooden thread spools and make us little wagons that would be pulled by a clothes-hanger and consisted of 4 wooden spools for wheels. We were on cloud nine and knew that we were so special and so important. Pa Johnson would always come home at noon for a big meal and then take an hour-long nap and
then go back to work.

When he came home for the evening, we would all sit in the living room and play games. We would play Chinese checkers mostly because that was his favorite game. He would sit in his chair and read until it was time to go to bed and then Ma Johnson would bring out the Bible and read and then we would pray, not just "now I lay me down to sleep," but we prayed and God heard and answered our prayers.

Ma Johnson would be just as happy to see us. She would always have something extra special for us. When we got there in the evenings we would have cereal at night or sandwiches and a glass of milk. Ma Johnson was never old to me. She was always full of life and always tried to plan a great time for us. At noon she would have cooked a great big meal and we would all sit down to eat when Pa Johnson came home.

We would start the prayer and sometimes during the prayer or right after we would hear the train whistle and Ma Johnson would grab the youngest and the rest of us grandkids would scurry off behind her going to wave to the train. She would just stop at the porch but we would run all the way to the track and wave the whole time the train passed by, until the caboose came by. Then we would all turn and go back to our meal that was waiting for us. Every time I hear a train whistle I think of her. After our huge meal at noon we all laid down for a nap.

Ma Johnson would come lay down with us at times, she loved birds and she had a birdbath and feeder outside our window and we would look for all the new birds and see how many different ones we could see. She usually took her shower then and would relax many times on her own bed. (Now that I think of it she was getting rest from the night before or storing up for that night).

When bedtime came at night, all the grandkids would pile up on two twin beds that were pushed together and Ma Johnson would be in the middle and we would all fuss to get next to her. She would read to us and tell us all kinds of stories and tell us stories of her childhood and she would tell us how much she loved us and how much God loved us.

I remember that she would gather everyone's glass at the end of our noon meal and rinse off the ice and load it all in one cup, add a little water and put it in the refrigerator. She would drink from it periodically for the rest of the evening. I would sneak in the kitchen and drink some of her water sometimes - it was just better than getting my own cup for some reason - it was the best ever.

Ma Johnson didn't just help us wave to trains. She would come out and play hopscotch, make mud pies and help us cook them on an old wood stove in the yard, she would make string houses for us with lots of different rooms, she even introduced us to "painted deserts". She would go with us to the clay cliffs (They were only small hills but to us they were cliffs) and break off chunks of different colored clay. We would take our treasures back to the house and scrape off colors and add them to jars in different proportions. I wonder what happened to all the ones we made and gave to her - she saved them - I saw them.

My grandparents were the greatest. They pastored a church in Opine, Alabama. Ma Johnson would always take a water jar with her that had ice in it, because us grandchildren would get thirsty sometime during that day. Great memories, no bad memories. We were the richest kids that ever were. We were always happy and had great times.

When it was time to leave none of us were ever ready. Ma Johnson would stand in the driveway and wave with both hands till we were out of sight, and we would go by Pa Johnson's Shoe Shop and he would give us candy or something and wave good-by and we would leave.

When my Uncle Billy died, his daughters, Mary Ann and Sharon, my sister, Rosemary and I (Rebekah) went to Pa Johnson's Old Shoe Shop (which is now a beauty shop) we all talked about the smell and the great memories that we had. The new owner's liked our stories. The old homestead is still there also. I went back
after Ma Johnson died and the new owners let us take a tour, you could hear all the sounds of our childhood rush back in.....-Rebekah Rigby

Note from Rosemary Rigby:
Ma Johnson
Without hesitation, I can say Ma Johnson was the greatest influence in my life. Here I am 20 years after her death and I still long to tell her every little thing about my day. I share many of the memories at her house that my sister has made reference to - identifying the many birds that visited her bird bath, playing on the railroad tracks, sculpting with the clay, sitting on the porch swing after dinner, all of us wanting to sleep in the same room with her, and our nightly devotions and seeking the Lord for His direction and His will in our lives.

She was my best friend and the closest thing to Christ on earth. She was humble, had a servant's heart, never had anything bad to say about anyone, never complained and was full of compassion. After Pa Johnson passed away and she came to live with us, I had the pleasure of sharing my room with her until her room was added on. This was a lot more fun than just the occasional visit. I would play hairdresser, she would scratch my back, we would read, play games, look at her many pins (other than her wedding band, this was the only jewelry she owned or wore) and talk late into the night. She smelled of Noxema, Ben Gay, and Jergen's - the most heavenly aroma to me!

Her spiritual guidance is what I treasure most. I have no doubt the devil would tremble when she would begin to pray. She prayed like a mighty warrior - for her family and children and their children, for our country and its leaders, for our neighbors and communities, for our pastors and churches. She loved the Lord with all her heart and lived to serve Him until the day she died.

Sadie married Charles Herbert Johnson on 16 Mar 1916 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. Charles was born on 30 Jun 1886 in Conecuh County, Alabama, US; died on 16 Feb 1971 in Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama, US; was buried on 18 Feb 1971 in Andalusia Memorial Cemetery, Andalusia, Covington County, AL, US. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Notes:

General Notes: The Lammon Tree b-1900 Alabama Soundex. B&D-Social Security Index.
The following is an excerpt from a taped interview with Otis's sister, Avis:
AVIS: ... I got to tell how -- I told Edward the other day -- how he (Otis) got married.
NANCY: About how you found out? That's cute.
AVIS: Irene came to spend Christmas with us in Hartford, and Bill (Hardwick) went to his mother's above Ozark. So, Otis was going to take Irene to Barnes Crossroads above Ozark to meet Bill. Bill was at his mother's, which was out from there. And Otis said me and Mama could go with him, but he wanted to take his new girlfriend, and that was Laura Bell Dooling. So, when we went, it was the 5th of January in (19)18. And when we came back, then, Otis went on to take Laura Bell home. And as I was starting to school the next morning, well, Brian Howell, who was a block above us toward the schoolhouse, said, "Avis, how you like your new sister-in-law?" I said, "I don't have a sister-in-law." He said, "Oh, yes, you do; you may not know it, but Otis got married last night." So I turned around and went home -- I guess I was late to school -- to tell Mama that Otis was married. And sure enough, he was.

Otis married Laura Bell Dooling on 5 Jan 1919 in Esto, Holmes County, Florida, US. Laura was born on 17 Aug 1900; died on 18 Oct 1992. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following are edited notes of an interview with Avis Annette Lammon Atkinson, July 17th, 1984. Present were her son Edward Atkinson, sister-in-law Donnie Beagles Lammon, Donnie's son Joseph Edward Lammon, and his son Timothy Edward Lammon. The interview was videotaped. The editor, Elmer B. Lammon, had the tape transcribed by a court reporter into text that could be manipulated by a word processor. He then edited the result to eliminate a lot of irrelevant chat. [As an example of the editing, the following statements at the beginning of the tape were reduced to the first edited line. - EBL
EDDIE: This is July 17th, 1984.
EDWARD: Absolutely.
EDDIE: Who's going to be the moderator?
EDWARD: I will, gladly - let me start.
EDDIE: Let Edward start now.
EDWARD: The only reason I want to start is -
ED'RD: Dad, it's not in focus good.
EDDIE: We don't need any help from the cameraman. You just-come here, cameraman. I want you to just come here a minute. Come here! I want the people fifteen years - come here - right here. I want people fifteen years from now to look at this and realize that this is the guy that's giving us all the advice about why this is not done right. Now, you go back over there, and after the show, you can sit down and tell me everything that's wrong.
ED'RD: It's out of focus.
EDDIE: You just sit over there and look through the little window and be quiet.
DONNIE: Don't put your hands on that.
EDDIE: Anyway, why don't you start this thing off? This is Edward Atkinson.
EDWARD: Yeah, Edward Lammon, actually.
EDDIE: Right.
EDWARD: I just thought the best way to start would be Mama to do the old sore finger Lammon trick and show everybody her sore finger.
EDDIE: I'll do that.
EDWARD: I mean, he does.
DONNIE: I better not do that.
EDWARD: That's all I got then.
EDDIE: I always wondered what that was.
EDWARD: A lot of people know.
EDDIE: I don't know what it is. What does that mean?
AVIS: Ask him, he knows. I don't.
EDWARD: Christmas day she was over at her house. She was walking out, and said, look at my sore finger; y'all look at my sore finger.
EDDIE: I guess the logical place for you to start telling-I don't know. I guess just we want to know the history of the Lammon family, as far as you know it. ]
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Edited version begins:
EDDIE: I guess the logical place for you to start ? I guess ? we want to know the history of the Lammon family, as far as you know it.
AVIS: Scotland. Well, that's as far back as I know it would be. Grandpa and Grandma Lammon, and I don't know anything about their lives except when they were old people and had the whole family, and they were all grown and married when I knew them. There were six boys and two girls in the family. My father, who is your grandfather, was the oldest of the family. He was the oldest child and his name was Edward Barnes. Grandma Lammon was a Barnes, and his name was Edward Barnes Lammon. Then, the next one was Uncle Duncan. I don't remember how they all came out, but Uncle Lee and Uncle Marvin and Uncle Archie. Edward, Duncan, Archie, Marvin, Lee, Freddie. Freddie was a boy and Flaudie [and] Aunt Carl were the girls. That's the Lammon family. And all of them had big families and children. And all of them lived at Hartford for many, many, many years, every family did. And when it would storm, they would all come to our house. I don't know why.
EDDIE: Is that where you are living now?
AVIS: Yeah, well, it's not the same house, but the same location.
EDDIE: Same property, though, isn't it?
AVIS: And we had a porch that went out across the front, and they would all come out there-a lot of times. The boys used to say, you know, that they would be cold. And in the wintertime, the only way we had of heating the place was a wood fire. And the men would all stand up in front of the fire, you know, back up to the fire. And Otis used to scoot in between two of them, and then it was too hot up there, and he'd scoot out. He was a little boy, you know. I can remember that. We just had the one fireplace in our house.
EDWARD: Well, when you're talking about-"now", when Uncle Otis was doing that, how old was Uncle Ed?
AVIS: Uncle Ed wasn't even born then. I was born in February, and it was in February, I was nine. Ed was born the next July. Sadie, Irene, Otis, and Avis, Elmer, and Edward. Edward was the baby of the family, and we all spoiled him because he was real, real sweet.
EDDIE: Do you know anything about how my Grandpa Lammon got to be married to my Grandma Lammon? What was the story with that?
AVIS: When we were girls -- I don't know anything about their courtship and why they married each other -- Grandma was a Barnes, and they lived right at Barnes Crossroads. That's above Ozark. That's about eight miles above Ozark -- six or eight miles. We would go back through a pasture place - I've been with the Barnes people. There was an old place there that was torn down. Irene did have some brick that came out of the old chimney where Grandpa Lammon's people came and settled, and his mother and father are buried up there.
[They are buried at Post Oak Methodist Cemetery -EBL]
EDDIE: Were Mama and Daddy originally from around Ozark, around Barnes Crossroads?
AVIS: They moved to Barnes Crossroads, but I don't even know where they came from. I guess they came from, North Carolina somewhere.
EDDIE: How did they get to Hartford?
AVIS: After they got to Ozark, they settled on down to Hartford. And I don't know-I don't know any details of that either, and I don't know how they met. Then, Mama lived in Newton. And my father lived at Barnes Crossroads. So, my father had pneumonia, and his cousin - turned out to be married to Mama's brother, but at that time she was - she was Lizzie Smith. She was Aunt Cally Smith's daughter, and Aunt Cally Smith and Grandpa Lammon were brothers and sisters. So Aunt Lizzie and Mama were real good friends, and she said, "Well, Lizzie, I'm going to see one of my cousins, who is sick with pneumonia." I want you to go with me. I don't know how they went, -but I heard Mama tell it before, - went up to Barnes Crossroads to see Papa. And, when he saw Mama, he said, that's the woman I'm going to marry. He never had seen her before. There's a letter in the back of that Lammon book, you know, that Papa wrote to Mama.
EDDIE: And eventually they got married, and moved to Hartford?
AVIS: They moved to Hartford before they married. Grandpa Lammon moved down to Hartford with his big family of boys and two girls. And then, Bill [William F. Hardwick] moved to Hartford.
AVIS: The Barnes were at Barnes Crossroads. Grandma Lammon was a Barnes, and her people, the Barnes, still lived up there. She had - I was fortunate enough to know her brother, Uncle Jake Barnes. And then, she had another brother, Joe Barnes. I knew him. And there is another one of those boys that I knew. I can't say his name right now.
EDDIE: And then, your mama and daddy kept courting?
AVIS: Uh-huh. And a year after they moved down there, well, got married, and in another year, they had Sadie.
EDDIE: What kind of work did - your daddy's do - Grandma and Grandpa do?
AVIS: Well, he was always mechanical, all the Lammons had mechanical [ability] and cotton gins and variety shops, and Papa was a changeable sort of a thing.
EDDIE: He's like my daddy [James Edward Lammon] now.
AVIS: Yeah. His son took after him. They were alike. They had good things in their hands like the Ford business for the whole county - Geneva County. Every car that was sold in Geneva County, he would have commission on it. He gave that to Lee while he believed he'd do something else.
EDDIE: In other words, if he had stayed in that, we'd probably all be millionaires now?
AVIS: We would all have two dollars instead of one. Oh, then, let's see. Then, one time he had the gasoline ?- what gasoline?
DONNIE: Standard Oil Company.
AVIS: Standard Oil.
EDDIE: He had Standard Oil?
AVIS: Yeah.
EDDIE: Did he give that up?
AVIS: And so, they wanted him to. Mr. Nance wanted him to go to Samson and put in an ice plant. So he said he'd go help Mr. Nance.
EDDIE: So he gave up the Standard Oil business?
AVIS: And we put our furniture on a train and moved over to Samson and lived over there three years. And that was the time I was in the fifth grade that I remember. And Sadie and Irene finished high school over there. "Finished" [meant that] they just went through the tenth grade. Then, we moved back to Hartford, and Irene went back to high school, finished the eleventh grade.
EDWARD: Listen, that ice plant at Samson - don't I remember when I was really even smaller than Ed'rd, maybe a little bit? - We used to go by there and smoke rings blew out. You told me where -
AVIS: Papa used to work-
EDWARD: That thing would blow smoke rings.
EDDIE: I think I remember that.
AVIS: I'm sure you do. It made smoke rings.
EDWARD: That plant ran for a long time.
EDDIE: Yeah, I remember that because-
EDWARD: And he's ?
AVIS: I think the old building is still there.
EDDIE: He's probably the one that put the ring blower in there, wasn't he?
EDWARD: Granddaddy [Edward Barnes Lammon] started that plant up.
AVIS: Yeah. He built the plant. He put it in.
EDDIE: He was a millwright. Daddy told us that. He ran sawmills and everything else.
AVIS: Then, we went-back to Hartford after we lived away that way. Then, he wanted him to put in a gin at Bellwood, so we moved over to Bellwood. He put in a cotton gin over there. A boy from Hartford came over to Bellwood and had something wrong with his automobile, and that was the first automobile I ever saw. And Mama sent me and Elmer to tell Papa to bring something ?Anyway; we went to the cotton gin to tell him ?. And we got up there, and he was working on the boy's car. So, he said, y'all get in the car and you can ride home. So it was just an old-fashioned car, you know. We were sitting way up high on this little backseat.
EDWARD: What year? What year was that?
AVIS: Two [1902]. Let's see. Now, I started to school in Bellwood - lived in Bellwood before we did Samson. I got the story right before, because I started to school in Bellwood. I was five when we moved there. So I must have been six or seven when I rode on the car.
EDDIE: 1910 or 1909. That would be about the year before Daddy was born, then?
AVIS: Yeah. We moved back to Hartford. Mama lost a baby in Bellwood. It was born while we lived in Bellwood and drank poison and died while we lived in Bellwood. She died when she was a year and a half old. Her name was Mary Lou. She was buried over there with Mama and Papa. Then, after we went - soon we moved back to Hartford again.
EDDIE: Y'all all must have got Irene out of school. Did Aunt Irene graduate from high school?
AVIS: Aunt Irene finished in Samson the tenth grade. She and Sadie were in the same class. Then, we went back to Hartford and Sadie married Herbert. This was in 1916. And Irene then went back to school another year. And then she taught school two or three years. And she
married Bill [Hardwick] in 1918. And -
EDWARD: It's worth you saying now - Eddie might not know this - but you taught school some, too, you and Aunt Irene, both, didn't you?
AVIS: Uh-huh.
EDWARD: Back then ? you didn't have to have college degrees, or a certificate, or whatever it was, to qualify to teach.
AVIS: No. We just had high school educations. And we took a teachers county course, taped examinations. And I had a second grade license and Irene did too, and we taught together one year. We taught at High Falls. There was a schoolhouse out in front of the Assembly Church, down on that road. And while we were there, it burned. We punished some great big boys one Friday evening, and that night the schoolhouse burned. Of course, we don't know who did it or why, you know. But we punished the boys, and the schoolhouse burned.
EDDIE: Were you married before?
AVIS: No. When we moved to Enterprise then, I was teaching at Slocomb and -
EDDIE: Who was teaching at Slocomb?
AVIS: I was teaching in Slocomb that year.
EDDIE: Was you married?
AVIS: No, no, I didn't marry until 1929, and that was in 1921.
EDDIE: All right.
AVIS: And Papa came over here to run a gin for - I don't know who. Somebody up here [in Enterprise]. So, then, ?when school was out, I came over here, and he didn't want me to go back and teach because, in the meantime, he wasn't well, and I got a job at old Mr. Edwards, - Simpsy Edwards, that worked in the store there with him. It was general merchandise. In Enterprise. He had a store right next to Clark's [Clark Edwards'] daddy, and Simpsy was the nephew of the other man. Then, from that, I went on up to -
EDWARD: Where would the store have been, Mother, with respect to the monument?
DONNIE: About where the Citizen's Bank was when it first come here, wasn't it?
AVIS: If you go up the street from the post office, you would run right into Simpsy Edward's store. You know, it was just the first two stores. One was one Edwards and the next was the other Edwards. And then, I went from there to the Clemmons store?Clemmons was right there. It was the first two stores the other side of the monument.
EDDIE: Vaughn Clemmons was the guy who made the proposal that we make a monument [to the] Boll Weevil, wasn't he?
AVIS: He did that while I was working for him. He just had good ideas about things like that.
EDWARD: That was in 1922 or '3?
AVIS: '2 or '3 or '4, somewhere in the first part of the year.
AVIS: And in the meantime, then, Sadie was living in Evergreen. And from there, she moved to Enterprise. She and Herbert came down here [to Enterprise]. Herbert had a shoe shop. They lived here six or eight or ten years. : They went to Dothan and stayed a year, and then went to Andalusia. And Irene and Bill - he preached - they married and went to? well, they settled out there [Arkansas] and lived there most of the their lives in Arkansas and Oklahoma. : [James] was born in Hartford. But when he was a little boy, they moved out there, and they lived out there. They went to school and business and all out there.
EDWARD: I'll tell you something about [Bill] that you don't know probably, but there's - I've got a copy of it - but there's a picture. One of the people in Arkansas got together and formed the Assembly Church, and Uncle Bill is in that picture.
EDDIE: He was in the founding bunch of it?
EDWARD: That's right, he sure was.
AVIS: Well, that was the home state.
EDWARD: I know that, but I say he was in the -I think Aunt Irene said he was twenty-something years old.
EDDIE: He was one of the founding fathers of that church when he was in Oklahoma or Arkansas?
EDWARD: Arkansas.
EDDIE: Arkansas.
AVIS: But he was - he was from Alabama originally, but he -
EDWARD: I know. But he was out there when he did that, is what I'm saying. He was in on - whatever they did that -
AVIS: Missouri, I think, is where it was, wasn't it, when it happened, in Springfield, you know?
EDWARD: It says under the picture that it was in Arkansas?
AVIS: Arkansas.
EDWARD: But it may have been Missouri, I don't know.
AVIS: I don't know.
EDDIE: Well, now, how old were you - I mean, were you married when your daddy died?
AVIS: No. My Daddy died in 1925
EDDIE: That's about the time you were working with Vaughn Clemmons, then. He was in Enterprise when he died, wasn't it?
AVIS: He died at Enterprise. And I was twenty-three at that time.
EDDIE: Well, can you kind of describe the ? whatever, about the time he died? Did he die over a long period of time, and did you just come home one day and -
AVIS: No. He was sick for quite a while - months, not years - weeks to months. And he went to some springs down in Florida, White Springs. He took mineral baths.
EDDIE: Did he go to the doctor with his problems?
AVIS: Yeah. He went to a doctor and the doctor thought this bath would help him. I really think he had some kind of cancer. Then, they didn't know how to treat cancers, you know.
EDDIE: Kind of describe the events surrounding his death. I mean, did y'all know for a while before he died that he was going to die?
AVIS: Yeah, we knew for a while. We did.
EDDIE: And he did, too, didn't he?
AVIS: Yes, he did, too. And, as he was sick up to death - well, after he took his deathbed, he-Elmer was in the Navy at that time and Mama tried every way to get in touch with him to tell him, and he had been over on the - on the Pacific coast, and she couldn't get in touch with him. So Elmer called - and we always said it was in an answer to prayer. He called from Jacksonville, Florida, and was on a boat that had come in to port there. So, when he called, she ? got in touch with his commanding officers. And he came right on home and got here before Papa died. And Papa called in each child he had, one-by-one, and talked to each one of us and told us that he had accepted Christ as his savior and for us to be good to Mama, and he'd - he'd meet us later. And he talked to every one of us separately.
AVIS: And then, Grandma Lammon was there, and he talked to her, too - his mother. He was the first of his family to pass away. Well, his father was dead, but other than that, he was the first child.
EDDIE: How old was he, Avis, when he died?
AVIS: He wasn't but fifty-three. But all of them lived longer than he did, the whole family. And he was - he didn't last too many days after he talked to all of us. He soon passed away, and we took him back to Hartford.
EDDIE: Well, now, I remember somebody telling me about the funeral they had for him. Something about - I want to hear it, though. I want to hear it. I don't think the Klan was anything to be ashamed of in that day and time. I think in this day and time, it is.
AVIS: I don't think so.
EDDIE: Well, don't tell that part, then. If you want to leave something out, leave that part out.
AVIS: Well, he did run with the Klu Klux Klan. He liked it - the Klu Klux Klan or whatever you call it. And when he came through town, the klansmen marched on either side of the hearse through the village, through Enterprise. Then, they didn't go onto the church. They didn't play any part after that. They just came on either side of the hearse coming. They went to Hartford to have his funeral, but they didn't go except just through the main part of Enterprise, you know. And he went on - he was in the church at Hartford. I don't even remember who preached his funeral. I don't remember.
EDDIE: This isn't very important, but when somebody died back then, I think they embalmed them in hardware stores more or less. Is that right?
AVIS: Yeah, yeah.
EDDIE: And I think maybe he was embalmed up at J. C. Jones hardware?
AVIS: At Lasseter's.
EDDIE: Where was that at?
AVIS: That was where - what's your men's store now?
EDDIE: Parker?
AVIS: That was at that building.
EDDIE: Right there close to where the cafe was.
AVIS: One of the little places right there. It was upstairs there. That's where they embalmed him. And I was telling Donnie today, after Mama - Mama sewed, and she'd keep paying Mr. Lasseter a little bit along.
EDDIE: I saw the receipts on that somewhere. I don't know where it was. She was paying for his funeral for years and years.
AVIS: Uh-huh. So, then the place that they lived at, down in that little alley, you know, sold. Well, I wrote Mr. Lasseter and told him to let me know how much the difference was, and I'd pay it. And in the meantime, Sadie did the same thing. So he - I've got the letter in a scrapbook at home that Sadie wrote to him, and he wrote back to Sadie and told her that he had had the letter from me, too. So Sadie and I divided that sum, and we paid it off, so Mama wouldn't have to.
EDDIE: Uh-huh. That's after y'all got on out of the house, sort of.
AVIS: Well, ? we got the money, you know, for this place.
EDDIE: Yeah. After he died, did your mama move in with Sadie?
AVIS: Mama stayed by herself a little bit. And me and Edward, your daddy, both stayed in with her. So one day I came in from work. I was working at Blevins, or Edwards, one. So I came in one day, and Mama was taking in coal to make fires. I said, Mama, where is Edward? He was in high school. She said, I don't know; he hasn't come home this evening. So I was so mad with him, you know, and about that time he came in. And I was balling him out. I said, there you lay out playing, and Mama is having to get this coal in, and she's had to sew all day. And while I was balling him out, he didn't say a word. So while I was balling him out, well, Mr. Heath came
and gave me ?(unintelligible).
EDDIE: That's about the time he finished his high school career, then, wasn't it?
AVIS: Yeah, he was-
EDDIE: What were the circumstances surrounding his finishing school?
AVIS: He just wanted to do something else rather than go to school. He wanted to bum around, I reckon. I don't know.
EDDIE: Well, that was about the time the depression was coming along?
AVIS: Yeah.
EDDIE: Didn't he kind of feel like he was a burden on you and his mama, or primarily his mama and Aunt Sadie?
AVIS: He might have. I don't know.
DONNIE: He said he did.
AVIS: He just was young enough he couldn't quite get established. So Edward - and then, I married in '29.
EDDIE: All this time Uncle Elmer's still in the Navy, right?
AVIS: No. Uncle Elmer got out as Papa died. When he came to the funeral, he got out. They dismissed Elmer. He only lacked a few weeks having his time out, so they let him go.
EDDIE: What did he start doing, once he got out of the military?
AVIS: He went to Montgomery and started working. First, drove a streetcar, and then he came back home.
EDDIE: Was Uncle Otis already in Montgomery?
AVIS: Otis had gone to Montgomery. They lived there a long time, back of the capital - he rented there. Then, they bought this little place there where he lives now.
EDDIE: He was doing what, mechanic work?
AVIS: Uh-huh.
EDDIE: Uncle Elmer moved there and worked a while, and then came back down here.
AVIS: Before he went up there, I think, he and Una married secretly. I don't know how long they were married before they announced it and started living together. In the meantime, he came back to Enterprise and started working here and they took up their abode together. They lived in an apartment down on the corner from us, when we lived in that little red house.
EDDIE: Where was my daddy while all this was going on? Out bumming around?
AVIS: No, he was still at home, I think, still going to school and helping out in evening with -- he helped Vester Heath a lot.
EDWARD: About what time - what year was it that Uncle Ed took - I know he told me about riding the rails and all that. About what time did he leave?
AVIS: I don't think he left home until after I married. In 1927, Mary Stone came through here, and she was selling World Books. And I talked with her about could I do that. She said, yes. She was a little old maid, a real good lady and a good salesperson. So I went with her and trained and tried to sell World Book encyclopedias. You know, the Childcraft is the part I tried to sell. But I never did make a success, but I tried it.
EDDIE: Was that when you took up to getting married? -- About the time you were selling encyclopedias?
AVIS: I worked all the way through Texas and Oklahoma, and I came back home.
EDWARD: Tell Eddie about meeting Daddy.
AVIS: So, then, I went back to work for Clemmons after I came home. And this, another, lady came from Childcraft. She ? said there is money in it for you. And she was going to Atlanta, so me and Sue Edison both went with her, and we went to Atlanta to some kind of meeting. And from there, Sue and I went together and we went to Charleston. We went to Savannah and then Charleston, then up to Florence. That's when I met John. He was a widower. And the place I boarded, he ate there. He had come to eat at the table at about the same time we did. He was sitting at the table with us, and there were flowers in the middle of the table. And I was over here, and he was over there. He moved the flowers. He said, "These flowers are in my way" and everybody at the table laughed, you know, and they begun teasing me about him then. And sure enough, well, he asked me to go out with him, and I did. And from there, it worked into matrimony.
EDWARD: The reason I asked you about when Uncle Ed went onto riding the rails and stuff during the depression is because he told me about that when he and I used to play golf and work in the shop together.
AVIS: Well, that was 1929. I married. In 1929 and '30, he came by my house.
EDWARD: While you were living in North Carolina?
AVIS: South Carolina.
AVIS: Florence. He came there. And he came when my first child was a baby, and he was born in 1930, John Keith. And so your dad came by, and we were going to Charleston that weekend to see Mary and Ned -- John's daughter and her husband. And Ed says, Avis, I'll be gone when you get back. I said, no, wait, and stay next
week and maybe you can get a job. The depression was really on then. And John worked at - went to work in -
EDWARD: The reason Uncle Ed left was because - he told me a story that related to when I was in California. That was a long time apart, and it doesn't mean anything to anybody really, but since Eddie's getting what he's getting at that - do you remember him saying or when I went to work for the Chinaman there that I had to go to
the grocery store ?Dunn - Frank Dunn. Well, right across the highway, from where I was, was a railroad track, and there was a-they called it a river, but it was a gully. It was dry. And the hoboes used to - then -- this was in '52 or '53. But they would come over to the store in the back, and they would get the old potatoes that were rotten and cut them in two. Well, there was Mr. Mike Morehouse and myself that worked there. We got to where we would put stuff out there for them. And I was telling your dad about this, you know. He had said ? he had worked in the valley picking fruit and all that. And I told him about doing it, and I never -- didn't suspect it at all. And he said, he told me, he said, you'll never know the number of nights that he spent on that trestle. He said, I know exactly where you're talking about. He said there was just nothing was out there-where I'm talking about. That was kind of like from here then. That was country, you know. But I said, well, that's all city now. He said, I'm sure it is, but back then, he said, that was probably a mile out of town, you know. That's where the hoboes stayed.
EDDIE: Where was that in California?
EDWARD: Merced, California.
EDDIE: That was in what valley?
EDWARD: San Joaquin Valley. He went up and down the valley picking. A lot of people did.
EDDIE: Picking sugar beets and looking for any kind of work.
EDWARD: Anything, whatever they had - vegetables and - it didn't make any difference.
AVIS: Oranges.
EDWARD: Yeah, oranges, cabbage, lettuce - whatever was-
AVIS: Available.
EDWARD: Whatever you could get.
AVIS: Yeah, those were hard years. And my husband was well established with the railroad, and life was kind of easy for us.
EDDIE: Well, anyway, you said that you were in South Carolina and Daddy said he would be gone when you got back, and you said, don't go.
AVIS: Uh-huh. But when I came back, he had gone.
EDDIE: Where did he go to?
AVIS: He went to California.
EDDIE: He was hobo-ing then.
AVIS: That's where he had started.
DONNIE: Was that the morning you went to church or something, and when you came back he was gone?
AVIS: No, I had gone to Charleston in the morning, came back that afternoon, and he was gone when we got home. He wouldn't go with us to Charleston. Because, I said, well, stay here, ? But he was gone that night when we came back.
EDDIE: He was very predictable. You knew he was going to be gone?
AVIS: Yeah. I wasn't surprised at all. It always makes you sad when you know somebody is out like that with no destination, you know.
EDWARD: Well, I thought the same thing. In fact, I told your dad when we were talking about that, I said, "Boy, it must have been rough." He said, "I enjoyed it."
EDDIE: He would have.
AVIS: He didn't, though.
EDWARD: Well, I'm sure he didn't. There's no way you could. Nobody had a place to stay or ?
EDDIE: Sleep or anything.
EDWARD: Yeah. I heard him talk about how many -- I can't remember the place he said they would be. But said there was - every train yard would have a policeman, you know, a passenger. He said that when they got to a place, the policeman would come tell you, you know, now, this car, don't get on that car, they got something on there. But the next - he could tell him the number maybe.
EDDIE. You can get on this?
EDWARD: Right. They were helping them. They had to do something, you know, because there was so many people doing it. It was very interesting, and I know it was rough on him and rough on a lot of people.
EDDIE: He told me he was prize fighting out there somewhere.
EDWARD: I wouldn't doubt it. I never heard him say that, but I sure wouldn't doubt it.
EDDIE: I don't think he made a career out of it or anything, but he got in on a couple of prizefights while he was out there.
EDWARD: The thing that he told me about -- the incident I told you about there -- where I worked in California, which was thirty or forty-forty years ago, wouldn't it be? But I don't think -- if I had not ever mentioned that -- that he'd ever said anything about it -- told me his end of it.
EDDIE: Well, I remember that time we drove out to California or one time we went out to Carlsbad Caverns, we went to a place or by a place or two in Texas or New Mexico, somewhere along that route. He just wanted to go out a way and see this old place he used to work at.
EDWARD: Was that the time you guys went to San Francisco?
EDDIE: I'm not for sure. I don't think so. I think it's that time we, in 1957; we just got in the car and as far as we went was probably Carlsbad, New Mexico.
EDWARD: Well, didn't you go to San Francisco?
EDDIE: I did one time, yeah.
EDWARD: I'll bet you that he went by that place I'm telling you about in Merced.
DONNIE: He went by to see this man he used the work with.
EDWARD: Somewhere in that area?
DONNIE: Yeah.
EDDIE: In Merced, in the San Joaquin?
DONNIE: He didn't find him, though.
EDDIE: He didn't say anything.
EDWARD: I mean, he might just have ? went back for his own benefit to look. He never said that, but I bet you he did.
EDDIE: I wouldn't be surprised at all. Anyway, when he got through with his hobo-ing, where did he come back? Did he come back to Enterprise?
AVIS: He came back to Enterprise. He worked with Herbert, too, didn't he? Herbert Johnson ran a shoe shop. He was good. Herbert Johnson said your dad could fix shoes better than anybody that had every worked for him, if he wanted to. Said if he wanted to, he could take a shoe and make it look like it was as good as when it
left the factory. Herbert said if he didn't want to, it wouldn't look that good.
EDWARD: He could do anything he wanted to, period, that he wanted to.
AVIS: Yeah, if he wanted to. You know, later in life, he learned to be such a good golfer and golfed in-things. He golfed.
EDDIE: He was a good mechanic.
AVIS: Yeah, he was good.
EDDIE: Who was he working with when you married, Mama?
DONNIE: He was working over there at the Ford place where -
EDDIE: How did you meet him, in Enterprise, then?
DONNIE: I was working over there with Danny Carmichael. And - they liked him, and he was a good customer. He worked at the Ford place here, when we were married -- no, he didn't. He worked for the funeral home.
EDDIE: You would just see him on weekends or something?
DONNIE: Yeah. And he would come in there and eat. And Dan Carmichael wanted me to - he liked Ed. He said, now, Miss Donnie, you just fix your plate and when he comes in, you sit down with him and eat.
EDDIE: That was Alex's daddy, right?
DONNIE: Right. Well, I wouldn't do that because I was on-the-job.
AVIS: You didn't want to push yourself either with Ed.
DONNIE: No. And then, when we married, it just made Dan Carmichael just fuming mad.
EDDIE: Because you left?
DONNIE: Yeah, yeah.
EDWARD: Was he the one that got y'all together?
DONNIE: Yeah.
EDWARD: Then, he was mad because you left?
DONNIE: Yeah.
EDWARD: Well, he ought not ever have got y'all together then.
DONNIE: That's right.
EDDIE: And when y'all got married, you went on to DeFuniak then?
DONNIE: Yeah, about that same night.
EDDIE: On the night you got married, y'all moved to -
DONNIE: We married about twelve o'clock.
EDWARD: He told me, if I'm not mistaken, he said that a lot of people on Friday night would work till midnight or something, and then the justice of the peace would start marrying people; is that right? Am I right?
DONNIE: I don't know about that, but I had to work till -
EDWARD: I'm telling you what - it was about something y'all got married - something similar. I don't remember exactly what it was.
DONNIE: No, I don't know about that.
EDDIE: You mean to tell me -
EDWARD: Well, what time was it when y'all got married?
DONNIE: About twelve o'clock.
EDWARD: That's what I said.
AVIS: Because of work.
EDDIE: What time that day did you decide to get married? The day before, or that day?
DONNIE: It was on Friday, and we married Saturday night.
EDDIE: Y'all really put a lot of thought into that, didn't you?
DONNIE: Yes, sir. I don't see how we ever stayed together.
EDWARD: Oh, my goodness.
DONNIE: That was such a long courtship. That's the reason I don't say too much about it, it takes too long to tell it.
EDDIE: Don't ever get tied down here for a long conversation getting into that.
DONNIE: No.
EDDIE: Well, he always said that's the best thing that ever happened -- one of the two best things that ever happened to him -- getting married to you.
DONNIE: Yeah.
EDWARD: What was the other one?
EDDIE: Getting to know the Lord.
AVIS: Well, I'll tell you right now, if he hadn't married your mother, he would have been just like my father was. He would have died and left us - left all of y'all with not a penny a head, because your mother is the one that saved it. I mean, she knew how to -
EDDIE: Well, I think they worked well together.
AVIS: After he found her saving, they did.
EDDIE: Well, it wasn't the matter of that.
AVIS: It was too.
EDDIE: Let me say my little piece about that. If it had been just daddy, he couldn't have got anybody to work for him. Nobody would have worked for him. He was moody, and he would run them off if they did something wrong.
EDWARD: Be careful with that.
EDDIE: And also, he was like your daddy was. He liked a little bit of this and he'd liked to get him a little chocolate candy, and tomorrow, he'd be wanting ice cream. And the next day, he'd say either. You know, he was hop-scotching around. But then, again, if it'd just been Mama, if she had to run the show and hadn't had Daddy, then they'd still been in that old restaurant down on the side of the road. The counter - there wouldn't have ? changed from the day that she walked in there.
DONNIE: That's right.
EDDIE: And Daddy was wanting some change, you know, which was good. But then, again, Mama could work with the people. See, she could work with the help.
AVIS: And, too, your mother knew how to keep what she got a-hold of. She knew how to turn it into something that would save it, and your daddy didn't. He thought, well -
EDWARD: I think what Eddie is saying - and I agree with him - that Uncle Ed had some real good ideas.
AVIS: He did have beautiful ideas.
DONNIE: He did; he did.
EDDIE: They worked good as a team together.
EDWARD: That's what I'm talking about.
EDDIE: Mama and Daddy worked good as a team together.
AVIS: Yeah, I think so, too. She knew one side of the story, and he knew another side.
DONNIE: And I let him do anything he wanted to do. ?
EDDIE: Well, there's something you ain't told me about here - the Fields side of the family.
AVIS: Okay. Now, the Fields-
EDDIE: We took the Lammon side and come pretty far with it. But, now, I want to know something about Grandma - my Grandma's side of it. Tell me a little bit about it, her side of it.
AVIS: The Fields moved to Hartford. They moved four miles out from Hartford, out in the country.
EDWARD: That was after they crossed the Savannah River?
AVIS: Yeah. Edward wants me to tell about one time Uncle Joe went with me to take Jane and her children home, and I wanted him to go over in South Carolina because he always loved children and his people kept in South Carolina.
EDWARD: That was to Augusta, Georgia, you're talking about now?
AVIS: Yeah. They lived in Augusta, Georgia, at that time. So I said, "Uncle Joe" - when Hinton came from the Army that night, he worked at Fort Gordon. He was in the Army at Fort Gordon. I said, "Hinton, I want you to take us ? across the river, so Uncle Joe can tell people he'd been to South Carolina. We are going home tomorrow." So when we crossed the river, Uncle Joe says, now, is this the Save Anna River? We said this is it. Well, just to think my Grandma crossed this river when she was a little girl, right at this same place. And this is her place. I said, how do you know this is the place? Because they said she did. Of course, you don't know how many miles it was of the Savannah River. He told us one time why they named the river Savannah River. He said there was a woman had a little girl named Anna, and she fell off a boat and said she was hollering for all of them to Save Anna, Save Anna, so they named the river Savannah. We had lot of fun that night. Well, on -
EDDIE: Anyway, the first you knew of them, where did they - they were at the Barnes Crossroads?
AVIS: No. They came down to - they lived in Newton, somewhere near Newton, Alabama. So they moved on down there.
EDDIE: You don't know nothing about her mama and daddy much?
AVIS: Yeah. Her mama - her mother was an Atkinson, just like we spell our name ? Ursula Atkinson. And before she married, she was a Griffith. And Ed has a chest that Uncle Elmer Griffith, sister of Grandma Atkinson, my great grandmother, made. Mama said they called it a chest, I reckon is what she said. And said she always knew [when] her mama was expecting - Mama was the oldest girl in that family. Uncle Buddy was the oldest boy. He was older than Mama. And she said she always knew [when] her mama was expecting another baby because she'd find little dresses made and stuck in this chest that Uncle Elmer made for his niece ? [which] was Grandma Fields' chest. And then, when they came down to Hartford, Grandpa Fields-I don't know how he and Grandma met - Grandma Fields. And when he came down there to live - I thought it was real interesting, though, the way his mother and father met. His mother was one of the Matthews girls. And ? Moses Matthews ? had all them. Well, he was one of the forefathers of Dale County, Moses Matthews. And his - his father, was Mister ? -well, I can't say his first name {it was Alexander Bartholomew Fields__EBL} [Alexander Bartholomew Fields was a soldier in the Revolutionary War__ per Jane Atkinson.] But he was a Fields, and he came riding up as a Union soldier, and they fell in love. And it wasn't long till they married.
EDDIE: You don't know where he's from, then, do you?
AVIS: No.
EDWARD: You mean he was a damn Yankee?
AVIS: I don't know.
EDWARD: Well, if he was a Union soldier, he was.
AVIS: May be he wasn't. Maybe he was. I don't know. I'll look that up.
EDDIE: He was a soldier anyway.
AVIS: He was a soldier. Because [???]'s got that good history. She's got a good history of the Fields. We'll have to get it done.
EDDIE: Where has she got a history of the Fields?
AVIS: Well, she was a Fields, you know. I mean, she married a Myers. And Ms. Myers was a Fields, too.
DONNIE: But she's been everywhere to get-
AVIS: Yeah. She's worked hard. She's got a good history.
EDDIE: Maybe we can get some of that from her.
AVIS: She's really good. But, anyway, this - Grandpa Fields moved down to Hartford and bought this land, and he couldn't pay for it. And he bought it from a Mr. Daughtery there at Hartford. So, Mr. Daughtery said, well, I'll tell you, Mr. Fields, I'm not going to take this land from you. And next year, if you'll make - I think I've got this written down somewhere at home - I think it's five bales of cotton, I'll let that pay for the land. So Grandpa made enough cotton to pay for the land, and so he raised his family out there. And after they - let's see, now - what do you want to know about the Fields?
EDDIE: How many of them are there? How many brothers?
AVIS: Eight Fields. There's -
EDDIE: That's your mama's brothers and sisters?
AVIS: Yeah. There's three of the sisters there and seven boys - eight maybe - maybe ten. There's five boys - six, seven, eight, and three girls. And the girls are ten years apart. When mama was ten, Aunt Beatrice's born. And when Aunt Beatrice was ten, Aunt Ethel was born. And Ethel was the baby one, you know, but the boys, then, are-
EDDIE: Who were some of the boys? Uncle Joe?
AVIS: Uncle Joe and Uncle Buddy, who was a carpenter. He was the oldest. And then, there is Carlton and Mama, who is O'Keith, and Cornelius, Clamon, and Joe and Ellie - he was real close to the top. I forgot him - and Ethel - and Beatrice and Ethel. But they raised their family out there on the farm.
EDDIE: What little old community did they used to live in?
AVIS: No, it's toward - Tabernacle is the church they attended. Grandpa had always gone to a Baptist church, but his wife and the children all belonged to a Methodist church - Tabernacle. And Grandpa belonged to Hill Baptist Church. I don't know what they did with all those -
EDDIE: I don't know if you want to add to that, but I recall Daddy talking about how badly mismatched his mama and his daddy were. He said just that [they were] two distinctive people.
AVIS: Well, they weren't as much so, I didn't ever think, as Grandpa and Grandma Fields. I never heard - I don't know what he called her. She called him Mr. Fields. I don't know what he called her. I never heard him call her anything. And he went blind when he was an elderly man - went blind when he was out in back of the house picking some corn ? But he called Grandma to come lead him to the house. And he had a - some kind of eye trouble. He never did see any more. That was about seven or eight years before he died, and after I was married. I expect longer than that because, before I married, he used to come -- he and Grandma used to come to Enterprise to visit us. I thought they was so pitiful. She would -- Mama would say, "Ma, bring Pa to the table, and let's eat dinner." And Grandma was a little old squabbly woman, you know, and she would get up and take Grandpa's hand, and they would walk, you know, through this little old bedroom into the dining room. She would show him where to sit, you know. Well, then, after Keith was a little boy, nine months old, Mama went to stay with Grandma and Grandpa, because Grandpa was blind, and Grandma had just about lost her mind. So Mama went back out there. Papa had died and Mama was by herself, so she went to stay with them. And I went out there -- I come to visit them and -- they lived out there in the country in Hartford -- so after I got there and Grandma heard the baby, it got on her mind that she had a baby. And she'd say, your baby is crying, and I hear mine too. Where is my baby? That was my Grandma Fields. And Mama didn't have much patience with her, but I thought it was funny. I'd laugh at her. I'd say, Grandma, your baby is -- Aunt Ethel had died. Aunt Ethel married in 1919, I think, Aunt Ethel - Homer Barnes, and she died. She was pregnant and died when all the women that had that Asian flu - all the pregnant women - so many pregnant women died that year, and she died. It was 1919, I believe '18 or '19. -- And, I said, "Grandma, your baby is out there cutting air." And she said, "Aw, he's no such a thing." Mama said, "Ma, don't say that anymore," said, "you know good and well you ain't got a baby," says, "you know you're too old to have a baby."
Grandma said, "if you don't believe I've got a baby, you ask Dr. Riley for me, he bore them."
EDWARD: How old was Great Grandma, then, when you are talking about?
AVIS: Well, she was - she was hitting eighty in years.
EDWARD: Looking for her baby?
AVIS: Yeah, she had heard my baby crying, and she thought it was her baby. It just got on her mind. Her mind was weak. The Fields and Lammons had a marriage now. Papa married a Fields. Uncle Joe married a Lammon, Aunt Carl and Papa were brothers and sisters. My mama's brother married my daddy's sister. Papa's first cousin married Aunt Ethel Fields, Mama's sister. Uncle-Uncle Carlton, who is Jim and Eddie's daddy, married Lizzie Smith, who is Papa's first cousin.
EDDIE: You said somebody was Jimmy and Eddie's daddy.
AVIS: Jimmy and Eddie Fields. They married -- that was four -- two first cousins and two brothers and sisters that married each other.
EDWARD: If Uncle Joe and Aunt Carl had had any kids, then you and those kids would have been double first cousins?
AVIS: And that's one reason I went back to Uncle Joe was because I didn't -- when I had retired from the motel. My children married and had gotten off or gotten jobs. I went on down to Florida, and I was carrying a newspaper. I made good money. And Uncle ???? kept calling me, said Uncle Joe was in the hospital, said would I come stay with him? I said, "No, I won't come stay with him." And so he called me and said, Avis, somebody has got to help us with Joe. He's just got to have help, and there's just nobody else to do it but you. So I went back to stay with him. And me and him just got along real good. I said, "I'm not going to stay but just long enough for you to get strong again." He had been in the hospital. He was still in the hospital when I got there. But he-after I stayed there a while, we just kind of learned to like each other, and I kept on staying. And I'm still there.
EDDIE: What year was that?
AVIS: That was '59. Aunt Carl died in '57.

Note from Rosemary Rigby:
Great Aunt Avis:
I had great respect and love for Aunt Avis. She was also happy and fun loving and a bit of a character. She could be direct and say just what she was thinking, but in a way that you weren't offended, but knew you better straighten up. I would go with my mother and Ma Johnson every summer to visit Aunt Avis and sometimes Aunt Irene would come over to meet us. I would watch as they would cook and put up preserves, tell stories, and act silly like a bunch of pre-teen girls. She was a strong woman and I didn't know the extent of her strength until I was older and had children of my own. She was widowed early in her marriage and it was no easy task raising children alone. Being with her and her sisters on those calm summer days are some of my fondest memories.

Avis married John William Atkinson on 16 Sep 1929 in Florence, Florence County, South Carolina, United States. John was born on 20 Jul 1880 in Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States; died on 20 Jun 1939 in Florence, Florence County, South Carolina, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes: The Lammon Tree
The following note from daughter Nancy:
When Elmer Lammon left Hartford, Alabama in 1924 to seek his fame and fortune in the Navy, he had little idea of all of the changes that awaited him in the few years that would follow. The scrapbook that he kept through the two years that he spent traveling the world is something to treasure. When he returned at the death of his father, his sister Avis introduced him to her good friend, Una Yelverton. They were married in 1927 and lived in Enterprise, Alabama, most of their lives. Elmer, who could fix all kinds of machinery, owned and operated automobile garages for his life's work.
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The following note is from a videotape interview with sister, Avis, in the 1980's:
AUNT AVIS: I was twenty-seven when I married. Then, I was twenty-eight, and I had - I married John Atkinson. He was a lot older than I was, had a grown family. We had three babies. And he was - when the oldest one was nine, he died. That was - John Keith was nine. Edward Lammon was four, and Jane was two.
NANCY: Who was next?
AUNT AVIS: Your father, Elmer, was next in age. And he married Una Yelverton. In what year?
NANCY: In '27, I believe, wasn't it, or '24?
AUNT AVIS: I don't know. We can look it up.
NANCY: I think she graduated from high school in '24, and they married soon after that. Did they meet - now, you and Mother were friends?
AUNT AVIS: Yeah. When he came home from the Navy - he was in the Navy when we moved here. And I never did tell her anything about Elmer - him anything about Una, nor Una anything about Elmer. But after he came home, he said, why didn't you tell me about this gal? And she said the same thing. I mean, they fell for each other, and I can't remember how soon they married, but they married secretly. ...
NANCY: How long were Mother and Daddy secretly married? Why did they do it that way?
AUNT AVIS: I don't know why they did it that way. If I ever did know, I don't remember. I don't remember why. I don't know how long they were secretly married. Elmer had gone to Montgomery to [work]- and was working and staying with Uncle Archie - the reason we were there at his house seeing him. And then, it wasn't long after that, till they came - he came home and he got a job here, and they rented an apartment right there on the corner of - do you remember?
NANCY: I don't remember the name. I know they had that little service station.
AUNT AVIS: I don't remember how long they were married before they - she came and they - she kept working, and he did too.
...
AUNT 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 - brought 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 he - 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.
...
AVIS ...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.
AUNT AVIS: He wasn't more than three 'cause I started school when I was five.
...
NANCY: I think one - of course, it's not funny - I guess maybe it could be a little funny now - was the time that Daddy and Uncle Ed took off to California.
ANN: California. Mother, you tell about that.
NANCY: You need to tell that, because Mama never got over that, now, I'm telling you.
ANN: And tell how y'all felt about it.
DONNIE: It didn't bother me, as long as it didn't him.
NANCY: Well, it bothered her.
DONNIE: I didn't care for them going, myself.
NANCY: Did y'all know they were going, though, before they just packed up the car and left?
DONNIE: Yeah, I did.
ANN: But, I mean, weren't you a little bit upset that you were working hard for a living, and Daddy was taking a month's vacation in California with Uncle Elmer?
DONNIE: It didn't bother me too bad.
NANCY: Well, I remember Mother made me go get in the car and lay down in the backseat so - as a stowaway - so they'd get way down the road and have to come back - discover me in the car. Well, they discovered me before they left actually.
AUNT AVIS: I bet they did.
NANCY: No, but she was upset about that.
EDDIE: Well, whose idea was it for them to go? You don't know?
NANCY: I don't know. Do you know?
DONNIE: I think it was Daddy's. He wanted to go back over some of the places he had hoboed.
AUNT AVIS: And Elmer, you know, was in the Navy out there, and Elmer went to that Knott's Berry Farm. And - seems like that's what they were going out to see about.
DONNIE: Knott's Berry Farm?
AUNT AVIS: Something about - Elmer was in the Navy with one of the sons of that Knotts or the Berrys, whichever the name is. And Elmer kept talking about it. And it seemed like that's where it was - was the beginning of that trip. Anyway, I know they went out there and hunted that boy.
NANCY: They were gone for like three weeks and went to the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert.
ANN: Had pictures of -
NANCY: Ed standing up in that barn.
ANN: Where is that picture with Uncle Elmer standing up in that -
NANCY: Oh, I've got them. They were in San Diego or somewhere like that.
ANN: Brought Mama a jacket back that had Mexico written on the back and fringe all over it.
EDDIE: I remember that.
ANN: Yeah.
NANCY: Mother never got over that, because she always wanted to go to California. And the one time they could have gone, they get in the car and just take off and go.
ANN: Mama wore that jacket.
DONNIE: Your mama, I believe, was jealous of Ed and your daddy.
NANCY: Well, she - bless her heart. She was jealous, period, of anybody. I mean, she really was.
AUNT AVIS: She didn't like anybody coming between her and what -
NANCY: Whatever was important at the time.
AUNT AVIS: - was hers.
NANCY: Right. She was jealous. But that's always just been a funny story to me, how they'd just get in the car and just -
EDDIE: Take off?
NANCY: - take off to go three thousand miles.
ANN: On vacation -
NANCY: And leaving their wives and family.
ANN: And didn't have a bit of money. I mean, it's not like we had a surplus of money to spend.
NANCY: It would be interesting to know how much money they took.
AUNT AVIS: How much they spent?
NANCY: Exactly.
DONNIE: Ed didn't take very much because he didn't have any.
NANCY: Well, it probably wouldn't have taken, in that day and time, much, I wouldn't think.

Elmer married Una Lorene Yelverton on 1 May 1926. Una was born on 8 Dec 1907 in Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama, United States; died on 30 Oct 1975 in Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama, United States; was buried in Enterprise City Cemetery, Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

General Notes: The Lammon Tree. Additional Info from Jane Atkinson Linton and Elmer Burns Lammon.
Ed was the youngest of seven children.
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The following is part of a taped interview with James Edward's sister, Avis, in 1988.
Avis had an excellent memory and other family members wanted to capture some of it for posterity. Present were Nancy Lammon, daughter of Elmer Fields Lammon; Donnie B Beagles, Ed's wife; Ann Lammon, his daughter; and Joseph Edward, his son. - EBL:
NANCY: The little stories that Daddy used to always tell, the little funny stories - and Uncle Ed. Where did they get that? Was your daddy that way?
AVIS: Yeah.
NANCY: Or was your mother that way?
AVIS: Mama was.
NANCY: Just always telling little -
AVIS: Lammons were all witty. The Fields were always kind of strict, straight-faced, straight-laced.
DONNIE: Like Aunt Irene.
AVIS: Yeah, Aunt Irene got hers.
ANN: She's a Fields, isn't she?
AVIS: She's a Fields.
DONNIE: Irene never has crossed her legs.
AVIS: She said Papa told her that the ladies didn't do that.
NANCY: Oh, really? Ann, uncross those legs.
ANN: Well, I remember Daddy saying that Papa said that women - he said a whistling woman and a cackling hen -
AVIS: And a crowing hen.
NANCY: What now?
AVIS: Yeah, because a whistling woman and a crowing hen never comes to a good ending.
ANN: That's right. And Daddy said that a crowing hen - you know, sometimes a hen will try to act like a rooster and cackle. And they said Granddaddy would go out and kill it if it did it - right then - and I don't know if that's -
EDDIE: We never did whistle in our house either.
NANCY: Oh, really?
EDDIE: Huh-uh. Ed Lammon wouldn't permit whistling in the house.
DONNIE: You didn't cut up at the table either.
NANCY: Listen, Aunt Donnie, have I not ever told you that my mama and daddy used to threaten us when we were little, if we misbehaved, they would send us over to live with Uncle Ed? I'm serious. They did. And you talking - it's the truth - and you talk about straightening up. We wouldn't open our mouth for days. I'm serious. That's true. That was the truth. And we'd come over to spend the night - I'd come over to spend the night with Ann. And we'd get tickled at the table, and he'd get so mad. Or we'd go to bed in there and get to laughing, and you couldn't stop. And, I mean, he wouldn't put up with that. And Daddy, he didn't have any problem with that. He never made us behave or what -
ANN: Honey, Daddy wouldn't put up with anything like that. All of our friends were afraid of Daddy.
NANCY: Tell me about it.
AVIS: I remember something about when y'all were little, and other folks trying to -
NANCY: Yeah. I'm telling you, it's part -
EDDIE: It's a matter of record here.
NANCY: That's exactly right. That's part of the real record.
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James Edward Lammon, known to everyone as Ed, came into the world in 1911. He was the youngest of the children of Edward Barnes Lammon and Alice O'Keith Fields, and, according Avis, Irene, and Sadie, they spoiled him. In an interview, Avis said, "Edward was the baby of the family, and we all spoiled him because he was real, real sweet." The Lammon boys - and this included lots of Ed's cousins, too - were well known in Hartford for their pranks and practical jokes.
The following story was told to your editor by James Hardwick. [But, a little background first: James Hardwick, in a telephone conversation, after I had received this story from him, asked me if I knew anything about the Assembly of God Church. Answering that I was aware of it but had never attended a service, James explained that they believe that the end of the world - the Second Coming of Christ - will be soon. In other words, we are living in the last days, according to prophecies that have been fulfilled, and the world could end any time now! - EBL]
One breezy, dark, Sunday night, during church service, James Edward Lammon and one of his buddies were flying their kites, but not in the usual way. Usually, people fly kites during the day. Up to their usual pranks, however, they had tied cattails to their kites, cattails that had been dipped the in kerosene and set afire! The kites, invisible at night, were aloft with those cattails attached, now lighted, blazing! Someone sitting close to a window, looked out and saw that the sky was on fire! Others saw the fire. They must have thought that judgement day had come, since all they could see was the fire floating about in the sky. The meeting broke up, as James recalled. Another incident, this one related to the editor by Rachel Lammon, daughter of Lee, and Ed's first cousin: A fully assembled carriage was found atop the roof of the Alabama Hotel in Hartford one morning. The culprits were never found, but Lammon family insiders knew who did it.
According to James Hardwick, Ed played the drums in the Coffee County High School Band. All of the Lammon boys seemed to have an aptitude for mechanical things, and Ed was particularly talented.
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The following is compiled from stories told by Avis Lammon Atkinson and Donnie Beagles Lammon and is contributed by Joseph Edward Lammon:
In 1924, I believe, Edward Barnes Lammon, being the eldest of his brothers and sisters, moved to Enterprise with his wife O'Keith to work as a millwright. Of his seven children, two were still young enough at this time to live in his household, Avis and James Edward. Another son, Elmer, was in the US Navy at the time and later moved to Enterprise. Ed's father, Edward Barnes Lammon, died of Bright's disease in 1925 at the age of 53. O'Keith and the two youngest children later moved from Enterprise to Dothan to live with her eldest child, Sadie and her husband, Charles Herbert Johnson. Ed worked for Herbert in his shoe repair shop in Enterprise. Herbert's son, Clyde, was only a year younger than Ed was and they became good friends. About the time of the depression, 1930 or 1931, James Edward left home to avoid being another mouth to feed and became a hobo for about 3 years, traveling first to Florence, South Carolina, in 1930 to visit sister Avis. Avis was married and already had her first baby, John Keith. James Edward visited only briefly and, declining Avis' invitation to stay longer and perhaps get a job there, left for California. There he worked as a farm laborer in the San Joaquin Valley, near Merced, picking oranges, cabbages, lettuce, fruit, and whatever was in season. James Edward, being a fairly muscular and tough physical specimen, also spent some time there as a prize fighter, probably the bare-knuckle variety. He returned to Enterprise in about 1934 or 1935, where he took a job with Herbert, sister Sadie's husband, who owned a shoe repair shop. "Herbert said that Ed could repair shoes better than anyone who had ever worked
for him, if he wanted to," Avis recounted many years later. Later, he worked at the funeral home, and the Ford place, and often ate at Carmichael's Café. Ed was a good customer there and Mr. Dan Carmichael liked him. Working for Dan Carmichael was a young lady named Donnie B Beagles, who worked there as a waitress. Mr. Carmichael said to Donnie, "?now, Miss Donnie, you just fix your plate and when he comes in, you sit down with him and eat." Because she was too modest, she wouldn't do it, but they did meet later and, after a whirlwind courtship, married one night at midnight in 1936. Colley Pittman, probate judge, did the marrying. They moved to DeFuniak Springs, Florida. This made Dan Carmichael "fuming mad", Donnie said later, having encouraged the couple to meet, and afterwards losing a good waitress because of it.
Following are Ed's Obituary and a proclamation honoring him:
ED LAMMON
Funeral for Ed Lammon, 70, will be held Friday at 2 PM. from the First Baptist Church of Enterprise with Dr. Bill Montgomery and the Rev. Burney Reese officiating. Burial will follow in Meadowlawn Cemetery with Searcy Funeral Home directing. The body will lie in state at Searcy Funeral Home until one hour prior to funeral time. Mr. Lammon died Wednesday in his home. He was a longtime resident of Enterprise and operated Ed's Restaurant until his retirement in 1973. He was a member and deacon of the First Baptist Church where he taught a Sunday school class for many years. He was also a member of Gideons International. Survivors include: his wife, Mrs. Donnie Lammon, Enterprise; one daughter, Ann Day, Enterprise; two sons, Elmer Lammon, Tampa, Fla., Dr. Eddie Lammon, Enterprise; two sisters, Irene Hardwick, Dothan, Avis Atkinson, Hartford; one brother, Otis Lammon, Montgomery, and six grandchildren.
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS J.E. Lammon has given precious evidence of his walk with the Lord Jesus, and
WHEREAS Ed Lammon has faithfully served his Lord as Sunday School teacher and deacon in the First Baptist Church of Enterprise, Alabama, and
WHEREAS Ed Lammon has shown his concern for spreading the gospel by personal soul winning and Christian counsel, and
WHEREAS Ed Lammon believed in the authority of the Scripture and promoted its distribution through Gideons, International, and
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the deacon body of the First Baptist Church of Enterprise convey to his family their love, respect, and admiration and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Ed Lammon's memory be honored by having an Adult Sunday School Class bear his Christian name, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we seek as a church to continue the work to which Ed had committed his life and resources. This being done the 1st day of May, 1982, Jerry W. Byrd, Chairman of Deacons Maxie Searcy, Vice Chairman John Moates, Secretary

The following note from son, Elmer:
Daddy had an extraordinary amount of mechanical ability and ingenuity. He could fix almost any mechanical device. At various times, he was an auto mechanic and accumulated a mechanic's uniform from every car dealer in Enterprise. I think he had a low tolerance for supervision, would get unhappy and change jobs. Unafraid to ?take a swing? at a new venture, but lacking the capital and business skills to succeed, he started several small businesses that failed: a stock car racing venture in Montgomery, an electric motor rewinding shop, a poolroom, an ice cream parlor, "Ed's Big Cone". (The racing venture ended with the whole family being chased out of the race track one night when there wasn't enough "gate" to pay the prize money.) I remember that he decided against a McDonalds franchise in Enterprise because he would have had to pay 5 or 6 % of sales to the parent company. Finally, in about 1952, in a move that put me all the way through college, he and mother started ?Lammons Café?. It was named that until Daddy bought a new sign with shimmering sequins on it (a new development at the time), for which the signmaker charged by the letter. They changed the name to "Ed's Restaurant" and joked about it, although I never could figure why he didn't give her some credit in the name of the business. He kept the books, paid all the bills and taxes, fixed everything that needed fixing. He opened every morning for breakfast and stayed until Mama came in later. He cut all the meat, including grinding the hamburger meat, went to Panama City every week or two to pick up fresh shrimp and fish. Mama always said she couldn't have done it without Daddy's support. They were a good team. Daddy always had a quick temper and was hard to deal with, for me, anyway, and for Ann, too, I know. As children, we were afraid of him. When I got old enough to drive, I knew that, before asking for permission to use the car, it was very important to try to find him in a good mood. It seemed to me like he was almost never in a good mood, and when permission was given, it was given grudgingly. Maybe this is something all boys go through but I don't think so. Anyway, he sort of mellowed later in life, and his main job, it seemed, at Ed's Restaurant was to sit out front and drink coffee and talk and joke with the regular customers. They claimed to have solved many of the world's problems at the coffee table!

James married Donnie B Beagles on 6 Feb 1936 in Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama, United States. Donnie (daughter of Hiram B Beagles and Callie A Benefield) was born on 20 Oct 1913 in Samson, Geneva County, Alabama, United States; died on 19 Jul 1995 in Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama, United States; was buried on 21 Jul 1995 in Meadowlawn Cemetery, Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following note from daughter, Janette:

He had 2 brothers and 1 sister. In his younger years he helped support the family. For fun, he played minor league baseball on the same team as his brother Melvin. He met Lois through a ftiend and this had a lifelong effect on him. Later marrying, Milan and Lois had 4 children, 2 sons and 2 daughters. The migratory nature of the road construction industry, in which Milan worked, caused his family to migrate to many states. His family moved with him to follow the work. In 1944 he enlisted and served almost 2 years in the U.S. Navy in the 2nd World War as a Motor Machinists Mate First Class SR. (2-19-44 to 11-17-45.) After he returned from the service he returned to the road construction industry. Seeing better opportunity, he left that kind of work in 1951 and took a job as a master mechanic with Heckett Engineering Company in East Chicago, Indiana. The family then settled in Gary, Indiana, permanently until his retirement in 1971 when he and Lois moved to Cottondale, Florida.

After Milan retired, he set up a workshop where he made furniture and did lathe work. He spent many hours creating unique wood bowls and other pieces. He expressed his love for music by playing his harmonica and singing. He was very active in the Cottondale Methodist Church where he sang in the church choir. . His many interests included playing dartball, gardening, watching baseball and football, and working crossword puzzles.

Milan married Dorothy Lois Dorrothy on 24 Mar 1932 in Bellevue, Florida. Dorothy (daughter of Delbert Coleman Dorrothy and Lenora Belle Estes) was born on 16 Sep 1911 in Glenridge, New Jersey; died on 5 Dec 1991; was buried in Hartford Cemetery, Harford, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

James married Marjorie Annalee Abbott on 15 Dec 1945 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama. Marjorie was born on 20 Sep 1924 in Walton, West Virginia; died on 12 Jul 2001; was buried in Lakeview Memory Gardens, Phenix City, Russell County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note from daughters Alyce Marlow Bishop and Sara Marlow Cecil:

A Z Lammon - was raised in and around Hartford, Alabama. She studied nursing but due to the depression could not afford money for books to finish. In the 1930s, she moved to Florida with Aline Lammon, her sister. Both sisters lived in Manatee when A Z Lammon married Wade H. Marlow. Wade Marlow worked for the Seaboard Railroad, so the family moved frequently. They had two daughters, Sara and Alyce. A Z and family lived in West Lake Wales, Florida, for many years until Wade was transferred to Miami, Florida. Wade retired due to ill health and died of a stroke on January 22, 1957. A Z remained in Miami working as a seamstress until she retired. She died August 26, 1992 in Miami, Florida, of a stroke. A Z loved to garden and do yard work. She enjoyed traveling. She was interested in politics and was a special mother to Sara and Alyce Marlow. She has 5 grandchildren to carry on “The Lammon Tree”

Ann married Wade Henderson Marlow on 30 Jul 1932 in Manatee, Manatee County, Florida. Wade was born on 18 Jul 1904 in Manatee, Manatee County, Florida; died on 22 Jan 1957 in Manatee, Manatee County, Florida; was buried in Eastview Cemetery, Catawba County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following note from Alyce and Sara Marlow:

Aline and A Z 'Annie' Lammon left Hartford Alabama, in the early 1930s. This was during the depression when work was hard to find. They lived in Manatee, Florida, where they met and married their husbands. Both sisters lived in Florida the rest of their lives. They lived mainly in central and south Florida and remained very close all of their lives.

Aline worked many different jobs. In Lake Wales, Florida, she worked in a large citrus canning plant. In Miami, she worked in dress factories and shirt factories sewing. She learned to make custom slipcovers for furniture and drapes. She opened her own shop for a couple of years and later moved the business to her home.

She was still working in Miami when she died after hip joint replacement surgery in 1982. She had no children but everyone should have an Aunt like her. When mama said “no”, Aline always fixed the hurt. She was funloving and a joy to be around -- Alyce and Sara Marlow.

Aline married Davis B Bennett in 1930 in Manatee, Manatee County, Florida. Davis was born in 1899; died in 1963 in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida; was buried on 22 Dec 1963 in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Birth date is from Headstone that I found on www.findagrave.com

Died:
Death date is from Headstone that I found on www.findagrave.com

Notes:

General Notes: Info from "The Lammon Tree" and Catherine Lammon Haponski.
Mabel was a member of the Highland Gardens Baptist Church and Order of Eastern Star, Montgomery Grand Chapter.

Note from Bobby and Anne Hines:
Mabel was a homemaker. She raised three children and help raise many grandchildren. She loved fishing and cooking.

Family/Spouse: Louie Frank Miller. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Lee Hines. Henry was born on 20 Feb 1910 in Georgia; died on 14 Jul 1968 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Marie McClain. Marie was born on 3 Jan 1911; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Winifred Carson. Winifred was born on 16 Jun 1918; died on 26 Mar 1985; was buried in Brookside Memory Gardens, Millbrook, Elmore County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hartselle Best Lammon. Hartselle was born on 3 Oct 1914 in Armory, Monroe County, Mississippi; died on 5 Jun 2009 in Cullman, Cullman County, Alabama; was buried in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Matthew Clarence Bullock. Matthew was born on 19 Jul 1905 in Loundes County, Alabama; died on 3 Oct 1954 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama; was buried in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Frank William James Canova on 22 Aug 1943. Frank was born on 1 Jun 1917; died in Jan 1981. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Joseph Karl Schubert on 15 Feb 1987 in Volusia County, Florida. Joseph was born on 28 Aug 1908; died on 1 Aug 1990. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notes from daughter Gloria Gene Broyles:

Madie Lou (known as Betty by most of her friends) was married to James Edwin Broyles. James was known as Bubba to most of his friends and family, and he was an Officer in the United States Air Force. Betty and Bubba traveled all over the US and to Germany. While they were stationed in Denver, Colorado, they had their first child together, Gloria Gene Broyles. Gloria was born in Houston, (Madie Lou didn't trust the Air Force doctors) on February 8, 1947. Their second child, Charles Edwin Broyles, was born on January 31st, 1954 while they were stationed in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Family/Spouse: James Edwin Broyles. James was born on 29 Apr 1900 in Riverside, Walker County, Texas; died on 15 Jul 1972 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; was buried in Houston National Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes: Ibid. And from Catherine Lammon Haponski via Elmer Lammon.
The following note from Wendy Ann Hines:
Hard-working, opinionated, politically active, matriarch, family oriented, fiery hot tempered.

Florrie married William Monroe Hines in 1939. William was born on 12 Feb 1912 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama; died on 15 Jan 1967; was buried in Grandview Memorial Cemetery, Laporte, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Florrie married Winford B Pearce on 1 Oct 1968 in Houston, Harris County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=48205944

Annie F. Clark, 85, entered into rest on Sunday, February 14, 2010.

Mrs. Clark was born on June 19, 1924, in Montgomery, Alabama. A homemaker, she was a member of Grace Baptist Church. The last surviving child of ten, she was also predeceased by her husband, Elbert M. Clark, and parents, Archie M. Lammons and Lula B. Jerkins Lammons.

Her memory will forever be treasured by her daughter, Sandra Dennis (Wendell), Warner Robins; four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and a number of nephews and nieces.

Family links:
Parents:
Archie M Lammon (1877 - 1928)
Lula Vinettie Jerkins Lammon (1884 - 1959)

Spouse:
Elbert M Clark (1923 - 1990)

Burial:
Parkway Memorial Gardens
Warner Robins
Houston County
Georgia, USA
GPS (lat/lon): 32.62555, -83.66804

Annie married Henry Loyde Skinner on 31 Oct 1940 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama. Henry (son of Jessie Howard Skinner and Alma) was born on 18 Feb 1919 in Meridian, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Annie married Elbert Milford Clark on 28 Nov 1979 in Port Huenemi, Ventura County, California. Elbert was born on 24 Oct 1923; died on 25 Jun 1990 in Houston County, Georgia; was buried in Parkway Memorial Gardens, Warner Robins, Houston County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Henry Lee Booth. Henry was born on 25 Oct 1915 in Northport, Alabama; died in Nov 1982; was buried in Northport, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

PFC US Army, WWII (Purple Heart)

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General Notes: ibid. And from Catherine Lammon Haponski via Elmer Lammon.

The following from son Jimmy:

Jack was in the US Army in WW 2. He served in France and Central Europe. He was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. Decorations: Purple Heart, Distinguished Unit Badge, World War II Victory Medal, American Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, European African Middle Eastern Service Medal with 1 Silver Star. He was a painter by trade and was very strong. Jimmy once saw his dad pick up the back end of a car.

Alfred married Frankie Mae Shirley on 06 Apri 1940 in Prattville, Alabama. Frankie was born on 15 Feb 1924 in Waynesboro, Mississippi; died on 6 Sep 1995 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama; was buried in Montgomery Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rimmon married Avie Lee Miller on 25 Mar 1928 in Washington County, Florida. Avie was born on 28 Feb 1910; died on 7 Feb 1992 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia; was buried in Memory Hill Cemetery, Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Theron Childs on 22 Jul 1933 in Geneva, Geneva County, Alabama. Theron was born on 24 Jan 1910 in Hartford, Geneva County, Alabama; died on 22 Nov 1984 in Lake Gaston, Northampton County, North Carolina; was buried in Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Prince George's County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From a note on www.findagrave.com

She was preceded in death by her husband, Alva E. Thompson, Sr.

Survivors include son, Alva E. Thompson, Jr.; three grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren.

Interment followed funeral services conducted at the West Hyattsville Baptist Church, Hyattsville, MD, Thursday, February 12, 2009.

Rachel married Alva Edison Thompson in 1943 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama. Alva was born on 23 Sep 1919 in Alifia, Hillsborough County, Florida; died on 4 Sep 2007 in Hyattsville, Maryland; was buried in Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, Prince George's County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mattie married James Harrison Vinson on 30 Nov 1929 in Houston . James was born on 11 Jan 1903 in Coffee County, Alabama; died on 7 Aug 1967; was buried in Andalusia Memorial Cemetery, Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Erna married Carleton Lee on 21 Feb 1930 in Houston County, Alabama. Carleton was born on 20 Apr 1908; died on 15 Oct 1972. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes: Ibid . B&D-Social Security Index & daughter, Sharon Lammon Tracy.

Note from John Floyd Lammon [with edits in brackets by Foy's daughter, Sharon]:
Both Freddie Foy Lammon and James Floyd Lammon were born in Hartford, Alabama. Both left home in their early years. Freddie went to Arkansas and James went west to California. Neither finished High School with James completing only the eighth grade. [Freddie finshed high school.]

Freddie met and married Mary Osborn [in Arkansas]. Their first child was Freddie Franklin Lammon [II] who was born in Arkansas and named after his grandfather, Freddie Franklin Lammon. The three moved to Kentfield, California about two years later. Their second child was James Carlton Lammon who died at birth due to birthing complications. They moved to Marin, California where their third child, Sharon Lee Lammon, was born. They remained in Marin and their fourth and last child, Cindy Louise Lammon, was born. They moved to Hayward, California where Freddie Foy Lammon lived until his death in 1993 of natural causes. Mary Lammon continues to live in the home they had together. Sharon Lammon was married three times and is currently living in the state of Oregon [Washington]. Sharon had no children. Cindy Lammon has been married twice giving birth to two children, Larry Benjamin Hall and Jennifer Leann Hall. Cindy continues to live in the Hayward area. Larry Benjamin Hall moved to Oregon where he fathered two [three] children, Timothy Joel Hall, Travis Jordan Hall [and Tyler James Hall]. Larry Hall and his family continue to reside in Oregon.

Freddie Foy Lammon served in the U. S. Navy [Army] during World War 11 and was honorably discharged. He developed a skill as a mechanic, which was his trade throughout his life. He worked for several companies. He and James Floyd Lammon went into business together, which lasted for a couple of years. He ultimately opened his own business[, the last one] in Union City, California. He named his business the Lammon Auto Repair and was located only a few miles from his home. He continually worked in his business until his retirement in the late 1970's.

Early in his life, following his discharge from the Navy [Army], he developed an alcohol abuse problem, which followed him for several years. His friends and family continued by him through these trying times. Alcohol continued to be his problem and was his escape while dealing with the first real tragedy of his life: the death of his second child, James Carlton Lammon. For no known reason and sometime in the early 1960's, Freddie Foy Lammon developed a relationship with God. He stopped drinking and never had another drink for the rest of his life. His faith kept him strong and he never wavered in his devotion to God and this enabled him to deal with what was probably the second most tragic event in his life - the death of his first born, Freddie Franklin Lammon II, who died tragically in an automobile accident in 1966 while making a delivery for his father. In fact, the contrary occurred. He increased his devotion to his family and friends; he worked harder to improve his business; and, his faith in God seemed to increase. He became a devoted parishioner to his church, the Christian World Ministries, and helped others work through the same tragedies and problems that he himself had lived through.

Note from daughter, Sharon: First a bit about my dad Freddie Foy Lammon. He was born Nov 2, 1912 named at birth Eddie Foy. When he started school he insisted on being called Freddie Foy. However, his family called him Foy. Later when dad went into the Army, He was told he would have to legally change his name to Freddie if he wanted to use it. He wanted to be Freddie, not Eddie, so he legally had his name changed.

By the time I was born people called him Fred, except Uncle James, Howard, Carl, and any one else in the Lammon family. So when you talk about my dad to the family he's best known as Foy. Rachael Lammon would know him as Foy. You said she was sharp. Well, since dad was 41 when I was born, I can only share what I was told up till then. Howard would be able to tell more. Howard and Carl Lee were real close to my dad. Howard said he and Carl would go with my dad on his dates. You figure daddy was about 19 or 21 years older, when they were born. My dad told me a few things.

One story was about him and one of his cousins. There was a stack of wood piled up behind the girl's outhouse. Which sat in the field where the boys played baseball. Dad and this cousin, I'm not sure who, but I think it was Royce. They planned between them selves. That the next time the baseball was hit over by the outhouse, and one of them had the chance to run after it. They would grab a board from the stack of wood, and shove it up under the girl's outhouse. And it happens! Then they waited not days but weeks dad said before the next chance came. Well it did, and one of them ran by and jumped on that board.

Now, is that not an awful thing to do? But I would laugh and laugh so hard. Can you imagine what that poor girl looked like? I do believe my dad got a kick out of that story every time he told it because he would laugh as hard as I did.

Daddy was a severe alcoholic. And he would not mind me telling you this, because he would want you to know what God did for him. In 1961 at age 49 my dad came home after a weeklong binge. And the pastor just happen to call, dad ask him to come over. He told my mother (Mary) I need help. I can't live like this any more! Rev. Wilson came over and prayed with my dad. Notice I said prayed with him not for him. I believe that this is what makes the difference. Daddy wanted to be delivered from the one thing that had haunted him. My mother also had been fasting that whole week. Now you can say what you want, but that is when our home began to change. Some family members remembered just how bad he was. I myself can, but I also witnessed the change. Until my dad died he lived 32 more years from that very day clean and sober. Not that everything was perfect, but it was the beginning.

And later about 1987 he was made an elder of his church. He and my mom also help home mission churches get started with as little as five members. And watch them grow into congregation large enough to build or buy a new church.

He truly loved the Lord and was always grateful for each year he lived. About eight years after he stopped drinking in 1969, we almost lost dad. He had more than half of his stomach removed from bleeding ulcers. It was said he only had about three pints of blood left, and we would be lucky if he lives and if he does, there probably would be brain damage. He did live, but was unable to work and had to take an early retirement. I can tell you that there was no brain damage. None! Thank God.

And later when he gained strength he worked out of his home. He had taught many young men the automobile trade. These men now make their livings in the auto mechanics trade. There are times I miss him so much when I smell gas or go into a shop. By the way did I tell you he was a mechanic? A great mechanic! We grew up in the shops. As a matter of fact when dad almost died in 1969 he had a Texaco station. My cousin Virginia and I ran the gas station. Dad had a garage in 1962 he called LAM-MON AUTO REPAIR. The sign was black with bright reddish orange letters. This sign was up on top of the building bigger and brighter than any one else's. You couldn't miss it! He told me the LAM-MON being spelled this way was to catch the eye. And if that didn't work those bright letters would.

Elmer, you said it was known that the LAMMON boys were jokesters. And according to daddy they were, but they loved their family. I ask my sister Cindy Louise (Lammon) Denham what would she say stood out most in her mind and life about dad? She said she always felt safe and loved. We knew we would never want for anything. He probably over did it. We were connoisseurs of every kind of food you could imagine. I believe this stemmed from his family going through the depression in the 30's.

Now, about that time, Mom said, that was when Big Daddy and family came to CA. Howard Lee was born in CA. Big Daddy (Freddie Franklin Lammon) made knifes and sold them. And I heard Big Momma never really got over it, she seen her grand children go without enough to eat. I heard Aunt Erna Lee and my dad talk about her, being very sad even after they moved back to Alabama. Napier Field was where they ended up. When I was 11 years old, we took our first trip back to dad's birthplace in Alabama. He felt we should know where our family came from. That's when I was told about the Cotton Gin. And that, for years, the next owners would paint over the words LAMMON and SONS, but they would bleed though every time. So our great grand father and his boys must have own it at one time.

I was told things I did not remember until the last few years - some of the pictures we have of grave sites there in Alabama with the names Fields, Barnes, Lammon.

Well I should tell you about my bother Freddie Franklin Lammon II. He was known for his building of go-carts, and mini bikes. He would take and sell his prize mini bike, buy parts to build three or four more. Sell them and buy back his prize one and make money. He had one of the best looking and fastest go-carts ever. He loved to fish, go frog gigging, camping and motorbikes. I guess you know by now, he too was a mechanic. He was on his way to work when he had the accident that caused his death. The tire blew. Two other people lost their lives - he never knew this. He lived two days and kept telling mom and dad to tell the two ladies he was sorry. This was very hard on mom and dad. Daddy's bloodline would end here, but for my sister's son Larry Benjamin Hall. Name change, but most certainly a Lammon. He is a fine man. He says Grandpa taught him every thing he knows. Using the skill of his hands, he now works in industrial construction. And he too is very proud to be a part of the Lammon family. Ben has three boys of his own, Timothy, Travis and Tyler. The one big reason why I am making sure they have this book about the Lammons. Their Grandmother, Cindy Louise (Lammon) Denham is also proud to be a Lammon. Daddy made us proud!

The other person who is just as wonderful is my sister's daughter. Jennifer Leann Hall, a beautiful young lady who also has the god given talents of our forefathers or, I should say, grandmothers. She started working a cash register at seven years old in the first restaurant I managed. Well I've started this letter a few times, and after talking to you yesterday I need to finish it. Ben and Julie have another boy, Tyler. He was born Nov. 4, 2001 almost 4 months old now another Great Grandchild to dad. Jennifer and her husband David Carroll have had their first child Natasha. This would be daddy's first Great Granddaughter born Dec. 20 2001. Two months and 9 days old today.

You ask me about my grandfather. He did help build the Golden Gate Bridge, daddy also work on the bridge. I wish we had pictures of this happening. I'm not able to tell a whole lot about Big Daddy because I never knew him. But my mother says he was wonderful to her. He would let her take iodine and draw pictures on top of his head - he was bald.

As a child I thought this was so funny and would picture my mother doing this. She was only 16, and a little thing. I would love to tell all of the stories dad told but just can't remember them all. I will be sending pictures of dads Great Grandchildren to you Sunday. My sister and I have wonderful memories of our dad and thoughts of family because of dad's portrayal of them.

Family/Spouse: Stella Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Irma Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eddie married Mary Margret Osborn on 28 Jun 1948 in Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Mary (daughter of Thomas Christopher Osborn and Addie Warden) was born on 28 Nov 1931 in Kendrick, Lincoln County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Info from Virginia Kohl Marshall:

"My father [James Floyd Lammon] left home at 15 yrs of age and did not finish high school. He married my mother, Virginia, at 19 years of age. He joined the navy during World War II where he served as a mechanic on a destroyer. He was honorably discharged from the navy. His trade was that of a diesel mechanic. An accident caused the loss of vision in his left eye from which he was medically retired at the age of 49. He spent the remainder of his life doing odd jobs as a mechanic, operating a service station, and owner/fisherman of his own commercial fishing boat. He had a heart attack in 1976 from which he recovered. In 1979 he died in his sleep from a fatal heart attack. My father was an avid outdoorsman who loved to camp, fish and hunt. He taught me to love the outdoors, and I, in turn, have done the same to my children."

----John Floyd Lammon

The following note from John Floyd Lammon:

James met and married Virginia Louise Monner while in California. They took up residence in South San Francisco and had two children, James Franklin Lammon and Carol Louise Lammon. While living there his father-in-law, Robert Kohl, taught him about being a mechanic. World War II began and James enlisted into the U. S. Navy and was honorably discharged after serving as a mechanic on a Battleship. James and Virginia had their third and last child, John Floyd Lammon, shortly after the war ended and prior to his being discharged. After a few months of continuing to reside in South San Francisco the family returned to Alabama. In 1948 the family took their 18' travel trailer and returned to California where they took up residence in Menlo Park. James returned to work as a mechanic in South San Francisco. With the children growing older and getting bigger they sold the travel trailer and moved into a rented home. In 1952 the family moved to Vallejo, California. In 1954, while still living in Vallejo, they purchased their first home. James continued to work as a diesel mechanic only now he was working in San Pablo, California. In 1956, while doing a welding job at work, a flying piece of metal penetrated his safety goggles and entered his left eye causing blindness to this eye. However, he continued to work until his retirement. He remained in Vallejo until his death in 1979 following his second heart attack in three years.

James and Virginia divorced in 1962, but remained friends. In 1965 he married Nancy Christiana who was the mother of an adopted child, David Schiccitano. James adopted David in June of 1970.

James was an avid fisherman, hunter and all around outdoorsman. Along with the relatives of Enoona Buffalow (Lammon) who were still living in the San Francisco bay area they leased over 500 acres near Putah Creek located in Winters, California. This was a location about 1-hour from Vallejo and 2-hours from the Bay Area. They developed this property into campsites, which was used by family members during the summer months for hunting, fishing or vacationing. This property was lost when the State of California built a dam and created Lake Berryessa. James took his love for fishing and turned it into a second job when he bought a 44' boat and converted it into a commercial salmon fishing boat. He fished this boat with his son, John Floyd Lammon, from 1962 until 1964 when John had to quit because he took a full time job as a letter carrier. James sold this large boat and bought a smaller boat and continued to fish commercially. He was forced to quit in 1967 when he realized this was too dangerous a job for just one person.

James never developed a relationship with God like his brother, Freddie Franklin Lammon, but he did possess and instill into his family the love of family, self respect, inner strength and he demanded all of his children receive the education he never had.

James married Virginia Louise Monner in 1939. Virginia was born on 7 Jan 1919; died on 5 May 1999. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Nancy Lorraine Christiana on 22 Oct 1965. Nancy was born on 29 Mar 1929 in Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; died on 22 Dec 2011 in California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mellonee married Joseph Foster Hicks on 9 Aug 1930 in Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. Joseph was born on 14 Sep 1910; died on 1 Dec 1972. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Royce married Willie Eunice Newton on 11 Dec 1933. Willie was born on 14 Apr 1914 in Harris County, Texas; died on 23 Dec 1990 in Houston County, Alabama; was buried in Dothan City Cemetery, Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

General Notes: Info and note from wife, Carol:

Gene's birth mother, Ella Susan Hicks Hatcher, was married to Green Madison Hatcher, a brother of his adoptive father John. Before Gene was born his mother had asked Flaudie Lammon Hatcher to promise to take care of Gene if anything happened to her. Ella died the day after giving birth to Gene.

So it was by mutual agreement that John and Flaudie adopted him. Gene did not have much contact with his birth family until much later in this life. He married Carol Joyce Forbus August 9, 1952, in Tarrant, Jefferson Co., Alabama. They lived in Birmingham, Scottsboro, and Huntsville, Alabama, before moving to Taylors, SC.

The following text is taken from Gene's obituary, kindly provided by his wife Carol:
Tully Eugene "Gene" Hatcher, 72, husband of Carol F. Hatcher, of 203 Woodleigh Drive, died Aug. 22, 2001. Born in Geneva County, Ala., he was a son of the late John Albert and Flaudie Lammons Hatcher. Mr. Hatcher was a former specifications writer with LTV Electrosystems and J.E. Sirrine Engineers and technical writer with Hayes Aircraft, Northrop Space Division. He also served in public relations with Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, and was editor of the Jackson County Newspaper, Scottsboro, Alabama. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Athens College and a Bachelor of Theology Degree from Southeastern Bible College. He was ordained into the ministry at Central Baptist Church, Tarrant, Alabama and pastored churches in Gaylesville, Alabama, as well as Gurley Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Gurley, Alabama. Surviving in addition to his wife are a son and daughter-in-law, Howard R. and Judy T. Hatcher, of Marietta, Ga.; a daughter, Camille J. Hatcher, of Greenville; two grandchildren, Brandon M. and Christopher M. Hatcher, both of Marietta, Ga.; a sister, Eunice Anders, of Dothan, Ala.; two half-sisters, Mary Lou Hearn of Fayetteville, Ga., and Betty Fairchild of Texas; three half brothers, Frank Hatcher of Montgomery, Ala., Joseph Hatcher of South Carolina, and Dan Hatcher of Bonifay, Fla.; and a number of nieces and nephews….

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Note: Tully was the son of Green Madison and Ella Hicks Hatcher. His mother died the day after his birth and he was adopted and raised by his uncle and aunt, Albert and Flaudie Hatcher.

Tully married Carol Joyce Forbus on 9 Aug 1952 in Tarrant City, Jefferson County, Alabama. Carol was born on 19 Sep 1933 in Alexander City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]