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The Genealogy of the Lammon Family

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301	Robert Elmer Byrd, nephew of John Monroe, said that John Monroe Lammons: "Was well educated and read books all the time. Was superintendent of public education in Geneva County (Alabama) at the age of 27. Was a hotel manager in Wichita, Kansas. Lived in Elba, Alabama at one time. Left Alabama around 1920 or before. Went to Kansas City, Missouri. That Monroe's first wife died before he left Alabama." [On this last point, Robert Elmer wasn't aware of Cleola Brackin, Monroe's wife before he married Annie Mell Simmons. So Monroe's first two wives had died before he left Alabama. Cleola died 3 months after their marriage. She was only 16 years of age when she died. -- Elmer Burns Lammon]	Lammons, John Monroe (I45)
302	ROBERT GOULD OBITUARY GOULD SR., Robert Services for Robert "Bob" Ayers Gould, Sr., 79, of Athens, are scheduled for Thursday, February 28, 2019 at 10:30 AM at St. Matthias Episcopal Church with Father Matthew Frick officiating. A reception with the family will be held in the St. Matthias Fellowship Hall. Mr. Gould passed away February 21 in Athens. He was born May 24, 1939 in Athens to the late Jake Gould and Mary Jane (Lammons) Gould. He graduated from Athens High School in 1957 and attended both Tarleton State University and Hartford Connecticut Insurance College. He was honorably discharged from the United States Navy after serving from 1958 to 1962 aboard the USS Coral Sea during the Laotian Conflict. From 1962 to 2005 he was the owner and president of Gould Insurance Agency, Inc. in Athens and served his community in many ways during his professional career. Bob Gould devoted his life to his country, his city, and his family. He took enormous pride in his four children and had great love for his seven grandchildren and one great-grandson. He was beloved by all who knew him for his warm personality, his renown sense of humor, and his ability to live without pretension. People respected him for his integrity, his kindness, and his straightforward honesty. Bob was an avid outdoorsman, spending countless hours at his lake home and the family farm with grandchildren. He loved deer (camp) hunting. Daddy Bob was a loving man who cherished his wife, children and grandchildren and will be missed by all. Perhaps his greatest achievement for his community was his service as secretary of the Loop 7 planning board from 1979 to 2006, a project that has been an unqualified and major benefit for Athens. Bob served on the City Council of Athens from 1994 to 2007 as Mayor Pro-Tem. He served on the board of directors for the First National Bank of Athens from 1976-2005, the Athens Economic Development Board, serving as Director in 2007, Co-Chairman of the Airport Planning Board in 2006, and the Athens Country Club Board from 1972 to 1976. He was a 14-year member of the Athens Jaycees; serving as President twice, Outstanding Jaycee of the Year twice and receiving 45 local and State Awards of Achievements. He was also co-founder and charter President of the Athens Ambassadors Club. He was a member of the Rotary Club for many years. Bob was a 55-year member of St. Matthias Episcopal Church, serving as a Vestry Member and Secretary for 4 years. Some of his other honors include the Texas Highway Commission Road Hand Award in 1990, the Athens Citizen of the Year in 1984 and the National Honor-Congressional Record in 2010 presented by Congressman Jeb Hensarling. Survivors include wife, Peggy Gould of Athens; four children, Robert A. Gould, Jr. and wife Linda of Athens; Joseph A. Gould and wife Becky of Dallas; Patricia Ann Gould of Dallas and Mary Ellen "Meg" Gould of Dallas; one brother, Harry B. "Peter" Gould of Zurich, Switzerland; seven grandchildren, Robert A. "Trey" Gould III and wife Natalie; Mary Lorene Gould; Morgan Gould; Reese Gould; Caroline Gould; Harris Gould and Catherine Gould; and one great grandchild, Maddox A. Gould. Visitation will be Wednesday, February 27, from 6-8 PM at Hannigan Smith Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the St. Matthias Episcopal Church, 205 Willowbrook Drive, Athens, TX 75751 or charity of your choice. Services were entrusted to the Hannigan Smith Funeral Home family. Published by Dallas Morning News on Feb. 24, 2019.	Gould, Robert Ayres (I405)
303	Rugh and Nancy were twins	Barnes, Ruth Ard (I463)
304	Rugh and Nancy were twins	Barnes, Nacy Whigham (I464)
305	Russell Earl Hippensteel, 82, of 105 Kay Drive, died Monday, November 9, 2010, peacefully at his home. He fought a courageous battle with Alzheimers for three years. Born in Robinson, IL, he was a son of the late Clayson Vincent and Kathleen Russell Hippensteel. He was a graduate of Findlay College, Findlay, OH and did graduate work at Perdue University. He was the President of Hip Truss Inc. and a Past President of the Simpsonville Rotary Club and a recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow Award. Mr. Hippensteel was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Greenville and the Fellowship Sunday School Class and served various roles in the church throughout the years. He was a veteran of the US Navy. He rode his bicycle from Toledo, OH to Pensacola, FL twice, setting the amateur record on his second trip in 1950. He truly loved his God, his family, and his work. Surviving are his wife of 60 years, Grace Fields Hippensteel; two sons, Stephen Earl Hippensteel, William Russell Hippensteel; and two brothers, Clayson V. Hippensteel, Jr. and Max Hippensteel. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by a brother, Dr. John Hippensteel. Funeral services will be 2 pm Friday at Trinity United Methodist Church with Reverends Charlie Summey and Gareth Scott officiating. Burial will follow in Greenville Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be prior to the service on Friday from 1 pm until 2 pm at the church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Trinity UMC; 2703 Augusta Street; Greenville, SC 29605. The family is at the home. Fletcher Funeral Service, Fountain Inn Published in The Greenville News from Nov. 11 to Nov. 17, 2010 - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenvilleonline/obituary.aspx?n=russell-e-hippensteel&pid=146542798#sthash.ZnMq2Brq.dpuf	Hippensteel, Russell Earl (I163)
306	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	Lammon, Sanford McTyere (I92)
307	SLC #1481001: Henderson Co. Probate Birth Records, Vol. 4, p. 112.	Lammons, Mary Jane (I186)
308	Social Security Death Index Name: Joseph Hicks SSN: 419-10-8224 Born: 4 Sep 1910 Died: Dec 1972 State (Year) SSN issued: Alab	Hicks, Joseph Foster (I388)
309	Social Security Number: 417-26-8521	Shirley, Frankie Mae (I365)
310	Source: Headstone	McEachern, Alvin (I228)
311	Source: http://www.littletownmart.com/family/genealogy.asp?1104 -- KRL	Howard, Jessie Nell (I507)
312	Source: Obituary at http://www.holmanmortuaries.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/print/id/2031549/fh_id/11688	Riley, Marjorie (I225)
313	SSN 060-10-4766	Unknown, Teresa A (I191)
314	SSN 263-09-1618	Lammons, Melvin Gathel (I328)
315	SSN 420-24-0417	Clark, Elbert Milford (I361)
316	SSN 424-24-2258	Fields, Joseph Spencer (I138)
317	SSN: 547-12-6857	Lammons, Charles William (I190)
318	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. ] ********************************************************************* 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.	Lammon, Avis Annette (I317)
319	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.	Smith, Maryann Rebecca (I100)
320	The following from Gale Stafford-Wall, Jacksonville, FL: Birth: 21 Dec 1871, Alabama Death: 12 Jul 1919 Burial: Tabernacle Methodist Church Census: -1880 Dale County, AL Census: 9 years old living in the household of parents. Born in AL. Parents born in AL. -1900 Geneva County, AL Census: Born December 1871. 28 years old living in household of parents. Born in AL. Parents born in AL. Can read and write. Works in a saw mill. -1910 Geneva County, AL Census: Bascomb "C." 38 years old. Married 7 years. Born in AL. Parents born in AL. Spouse: Dora HORN Birth: 10 May 1882, Alabama Death: 8 Dec 1960, Geneva County Alabama Father: Willis Bryant HORN (1850-1936) Mother: Theresa WARD (1853-1922) Children: Norma (1905-) W. Willace (1906-) Bessie (1907-) Coley Mack (1909-1943) Tulley John	Family: Bascomb M Smith / Dora L Horne (F47)
321	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	Smith, Bertie C (I120)
322	The following from James William Hardwick, cousin: "One day Billy and I were playing across the street from his home and down the street a short distance. Clyde came out the door and yelled, "Billy, come quick. Mary Keith is dying." We hurried back to the house and I saw Uncle Herbert holding Mary's eyelid open, looking into her eye. She and I had played together about as much as Billy and I had before her death."	Johnson, Mary Keith (I537)
323	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.	Lammon, John Hinote (I94)
324	The following information from Kathryn Anne Watts, (Dec 2000): Places of residence: Greenville, Mississippi; Kansas City, Missouri; Wichita,Kansas Occupation: homemaker Methodist Gold Star Mother	Perry, Aurelia Isadore (I48)
325	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon ****************** Allen served aboard the "SS Henry Bacon" and was one of the survivors of its sinking. ******************	Lammon, Allen McKee (I261)
326	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon ****************** 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. ******************	Lammon, Daniel Casey (I254)
327	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Helland, John Rudolph (I264)
328	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon ****************** General Notes: Info from father, John Duncan Lammon B&D-Mt. Gilead Cem., Walker Springs, Clark Co., Alabama via Internet: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clarke/cemetery/mountgil.txt 20 July 1998 The following note is from John Daniel Lammon, William Patrick's brother: "Elmer, Here is the Info on my brother Willie that you had requested: My brother's full name was William Patrick Lammon. He was known formally as "Will" on school rosters and such, but everyone always called him Willie. He was born on Jan. 22, 1960 in Miami Springs, Fla. He graduated from high school in 1978 from Jackson Academy in Jackson, Ala. He later completed undergraduate course work at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and Patrick Henry Junior College in Monroeville. Willie eventually received his certificate as a physical therapy assistant from UAB in 1986. After graduation he worked for a year at Rotary Rehabilitation in Mobile from 1986-1987. He died Feb. 6, 1987 from cardiac arrest secondary to a grand mal seizure. He had been stricken with epilepsy when a teenager as a result of a head injury during a basketball game. After being diagnosed with epilepsy he suffered greatly from the numerous seizures and the lifestyle changes it required. His numerous medications would always leave him feeling tired and in a drugged-out state. The epilepsy also hampered his activity and he was never able to obtain a driver's license until the very end of his life when he had been seizure-free for a year. Still, he took it all in stride and usually kept his since of humor about the whole ordeal. He was well liked, had numerous friends, and was known for his dry wit." - John Daniel Lammon, July 2000 ******************	Lammon, William Patrick (I497)
329	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon ******************** 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. ********************	Lammon, Jewett Bell (I257)
330	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon ****************** General Notes: Info from James Edward Moore, Jr., 6145 Old Bethel Road, Crestview, Florida 32536 (1996). "James graduated from Mize, Miss. high school. He attended Junior College of Mississippi (Presbyterian) and graduated from Palmer Junior College (Presbyterian) in DeFuniak Springs and attended Presbyterian College in South Carolina. James got a degree from the University of Texas and Theological Degree from Austin Presbyterian Seminary. ANECDOTES - From Daddy Jim's (James E. Moore, Sr's) youth When he was a senior in high school he borrowed his uncle's Model T car and hit a cow. Demolished the car and landed up in the hospital. (James, Jr., when he was about the same age also had a bad wreck, sending him to the hospital with many injuries). James and Paul earned their college money one summer by peddling some new fangled can openers door to door. They sold like hotcakes, even though it was the Depression. They slept in churches and railroad stations and could usually talk the jail keepers into buying one. Travelled through about three states selling these. James and his brothers sold their family's garden vegetables door to door, using a horse drawn wagon as transportation. Granddaddy Arthur Moore always had a good garden. James worked at J.C. Penney's in South Carolina while in College; at Turner Dept. Store in DeFuniak; and at J.C. Penney's in Austin while attending seminary. He first met Jewett while trying a pair of shoes on her in DeFuniak - she didn't buy them, but he slipped them on her feet, and got a date anyway. ******************	Moore, James Edward Sr (I258)
331	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon ****************** 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. ******************	Lammon, John Duncan (I265)
332	At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Lammon, Barbara Jem (I263)
333	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon ****************** 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" 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] "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." [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." [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] ? 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. 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. ? * 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.... * 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." * 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. ********************	Lammon, Holcombe Jr (I259)
334	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon *********************** 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. ***********************	Lammon, Frances Marie (I274)
335	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon *********************** General Notes: Note by Frances Lammon DuBose: Clarence Roosevelt DuBose, Jr. Was born in South Carolina and was raised (but not adopted) by an Aunt and Uncle after his mother died when he was 9 months old. He had two older sisters who were also raised by relatives. He went to Clemson College when it was a military school, and graduated with a commission in the Air Force, He was first stationed at Brookley AFB and then to Georgia and Texas and Florida for pilot training. He was sent to Korea in 1952 and after serving there spent the next almost 20 years as a career Air Force officer attaining the rank of Major before he died while on active duty in an automobile accident in Maine. ***********************	Dubose, Clarence Roosevelt (I276)
336	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon *********************** 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. ***********************	Snell, Jamie Wesley (I277)
337	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon *********************** General Notes: Note from Wanda Gale Stafford: Obituary: October 19, 1954 Columbus Enquirer Page 2 Mrs. Sarah Ladella Snell Mrs. Sarah Ladella Snell, 61, 2606-B Fourth Ave., was dead on arrival at City Hospital at 1:30 p.m. yesterday after she had collasped on the porch of her home earlier. Mrs. Snell had been under medical care for two years Her death was attributed to heart failure, Coroner E. L. Howell said. Mrs. Snell was born in Coffee County, Ala., Feb. 18, 1893, the daughter of James Allen and Julia Grant Holmes. She had lived here most of her life, and was a member of the Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband, James (Jamie) Wesley Snell; one daughter, Mrs. Julia Butler, Columbus; three sons, Cleveland Snell, Columbus, Thomas Snell, Columbus, and James Wesley Snell, Cairo; four sisters, Mrs. Argie Caraway, Mrs. Mamie Miller and Mrs. Tressie Duggins, Columbus, and Mrs. Emira Brumbley, Pelham, GA; four brothers, Robert Holmes, Camilla, GA., and Jessie Holmes, James Holmes and Grady D. Holmes, Columbus; a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Striffler-Hamby Mortuary. Census: -1900 Coffee County, AL Census; Victoria: Sarah L. Born Feb. 1893. 7 years old. Born in AL. Parents born in AL. ***********************	Holmes, Sarah Ladella (I278)
338	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon *********************** 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. ***********************	Lammon, James Edwin (I273)
339	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon *********************** 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. ***********************	Snell, Jamie Wesley (I277)
340	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon *********************** Terri was the daughter of Willie Joyce Stevens when John Duncan Lammon and Willie Joyce were married. John adopted Terri. Teresa has been missing since 1991. She was stationed in Washington, DC, and corresponded with several people, includ ing adoptive father John Duncan Lammon. Her letters ceased to arrive for all these correspondents simultaneously, John Duncan's efforts to find her whereabouts have produced no results. (2001 EBL) ***********************	Lammon, Teresa Anne Stevens (I499)
341	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon *********************** 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. ***********************	Lammon, Regina Moore (I269)
342	The following information is from "A Mess of Lammons" by Elmer Burns Lammon *********************** Tommy Jack was the son of Willie Joyce Stevens when John Duncan Lammon and Willie Joyce were married. John adopted Tommy Jack. Tommy Jack died of cancer at age 21. He was a Sergeant in the US Army. ***********************	Lammon, Tommy Jack Steven (I498)
343	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	Lammon, Inez Roberta (I252)
344	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.	Lammon, Archie Murdock (I171)
345	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.	Lammon, Edward Barnes (I124)
346	The following is taken from notes and records of Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff, via her son Granger: "Beatrice, oldest of 7 children born to Josephene and Benjamin Bailey, was born in Dale Co., Ozark, Ala. She was educated in Ozark, Ala., where she lived with her favorite aunt, Mrs. Sara Casey Carrol. She was known as "the belle of Ozark" when she graduated in 1898. She taught school near Dothan, Ala. one year. She married Daniel McColskey Lammon, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lammon of Whittaker, Ala. on April 4, 1900 in Geneva County, Ala. Her wedding dress was green velvet with matching plaid taffeta featuring mutton leg sleeves. She was an excellent seamstress and sewed for many relatives. She played the piano but her main talent was elocution. Children born of their marriage: Ruth Beatrice Aug. 2, 1901 Inez Roberta Aug. 5, 1905 Daniel Casey April 16, 1908 Jewett Bell June 3, 1910 Beatrice died in Slocomb, Ala. on June 22, 1933 and was buried in Newton, Ala. beside her grandmother Malisia Cauley Bailey. Her marriage to Daniel had ended in divorce about 1925. She had suffered a heart condition the last 20 years of her life. She worked for the Southeastern Telephone Company, keeping the switchboard in her own home. She was known as "Central" to her customers. Parents of Beatrice Leonia Bailey: Josephene Saphrony Casey Born Aug. 20, 1863 Died Sept. 18, 1949 Benjamin Walter Bailey Born: Jan 20, 1857 Died Dec.1938 Josephene Casey was the baby of 12 children born to Nancy Norris Cox Casey and Lemuel Casey She was born on the West Fork of Choctawhatchee River in Alabama. She was a very popular young lady and known as one of the prettiest in the county, She was more or less self-educated as schools were open only three months of the year. She read a lot and was the last to sit down at spelling bees and candy pulls. She was only 15 when she married the dashing young playboy Ben Bailey and because she was recovering from typhoid fever she had to use crutches to be married. She and Ben were married at midnight as it took Ben two trips to the county seat to get a license - the first trip he was told to go get family permission for 15-year-old Josephene to marry. So he had to make another trip back to the County Seat with relatives to sign for Josey's marriage. By then it was midnight so with family members present the two were married. They had seven children in 14 years, one of whom died of diphtheria. Their oldest was Beatrice Leonia, mother of Ruth, Inez, Jewett and D.C. Lammon. By the time Josey was 36 her first grandchild, Ruth was born. Ben Bailey's parents were Malisia Caulay and John L. Bailey who moved from Newton, Georgia, to Newton, Alabama. Ben attended Newton Academy where he studied surveying. Ben had a general store in Wicksburg, Alabama, but went bankrupt in 1895 because his bookkeeper, Mr. Whittaker misappropriated funds. So all the farmlands belonging to Josey and Ben had to be sold. Soon thereafter Casey's three brothers from Ozark, Alabama, Dan, Bill and Charlie Casey came to A1abama and re-bought the bankrupt farmlands for her and made her a free-dealer. Ben was a traveler, an adventurer. He would make a good crop, sell it and take the money and go as far away as it would take him. He once bought 1/3 interest in a railroad company. His system of living seemed based on "drink, talk, and go." He once went to Mexico and, upon flashing big money around, was robbed of it and even the clothes he had just washed and hung on the line. As a result he stayed in a Mexico jail, waiting for his letter to reach Josephene back in Alabama - and her return letter with money to get him out - to reach Mexico. In the 1905's transportation was slow so it took communications a long time. Josephene sent him money when she finally heard from him but it has been said he walked out one day without paying his jail bond and made his way to the United States and back to Alabama. When he came back he brought a bottle of boll weevils from Texas with him. Josephene seemed to be the backbone that kept the family together. She would oversee the farmlands and handle all the business angles, as she was a very shrewd businesswoman. Ben idolized her and always called her his "Miss Josey. " All of her grandchildren and great grandchildren lovingly called her "Grandma Bailey." Their children were Beatrice, Hershel, Sabie, Rollin, Rudet, and Yancie. She was blind the last years of her life.	Bailey, Beatrice Leonia (I86)
347	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	Lammon, Sanford McTyere (I92)
348	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.	Lammon, Aline (I337)
349	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.	Lammons, Milan Duncan (I326)
350	The following note from daughter, Janette: She had one sister. Her mother passed away when she was 13 years old. After her mother's death she and her father moved to Belleview, Florida, where she graduated from High School. She was certified as an elementary school teacher. She met Milan through a mutual friend. Milan was living in Hartford, Alabama, and they corresponded for awhile before ever meeting. On March 24, 1932, they married in Belleview and made their home in Hartford. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1982. They had four children, two boys and two girls. She was always involved in the children's school and activities. She loved to sew and cook and was always involved with her children. She was very active in her church and loved working in the church kitchen with her friends and would always say that it made her "happy tired." She was a kind and loving person.	Dorrothy, Dorothy Lois (I327)

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