Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Charles Hammond  September 13 1888
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The Griffin Daily News. Griffin, Georgia, Saturday Morning, September 15, 1888

Uncle Charley Hammond
A Noted Figure In The Annals of This Locality

Charles Hammond was born at Cherokee Ponds,
Edgefield district, South Carolina, July 10, 1793.
His grandfather emigrated to South Carolina long
before the Revolution, when the father of the
subject of this sketch was about seven years old.

The father of Charles Hammond, Capt. Joshua Hammond,
was a Captain during the war of the Revolution, and
a man of sterling character who lived to the ripe
old

age of 113, and the mother of Charles Hammond lived
to be 80 years old.

Uncle Charley was a soldier in the war of 1812, in
Col. John Carter's regiment, Capt. Cheatham's
company, and has been for years a pensioner of the
government.

In the year 1826 he moved to the then new country of
Georgia, settling in Monroe

county, near High Falls. Next year he moved to Butts
county, where he resided until 1849, when he moved
to Henry county, now Spalding.

Mr. Hammond was twice married, first to Miss Miome
Martin of Jackson county, Georgia, by whom he had
three children; second, to Miss Nancy Jester, of
Edgefield district, S.C., by whom he had ten
children - eleven in all lived to be grown.

Mr. Hammond was a Henry Clay Whig before the war, a
Secessionist in 1860 and at all times a patriot. He
furnished five sons to the confederate army, and had
19 negroes freed by the new order of things. One son
Charles C. Hammond, died from wounds received in the
seven days battles around Richmond in 1863.

Hammond is an honorable name. Abner Hammond, uncle
of Charles Hammond, was at one time Secretary of
State for Georgia, while another uncle, Col. Sam
Hammond, was an old soldier of the Revolution, a
member of Congress from Georgia, and subsequently
Governor of the Territory of Louisiana.

Uncle Charley was a fine type of the old time
yeomanry of the South - not highly

educated nor brilliant but a brave, honest man, true
to his convictions, his friends and his country. It
was his kind that wrung from King John of England
the Magna Carta which has been the bulwark of
American as well as English liberty.

Uncle Charley was the oldest man in the county,
having reached the green [?] old

age of 95 at the time of his death on the 13th inst.

Another link that bound us to the past is broken,
and time moves on, bringing old age and death to all
of us. May the Angels of Mercy be with Uncle Charley
beyond the grave, guiding his erring footsteps
aright to the throne of [the] Father, Son and Holy
Ghost. - W.J.K.

(Transcribed 12/27/02 Lynn Cunningham)

Note: At Latta-Hammond-Collins Cemetery, Spalding
County, Georgia: Chas. Hammond, Youngblood's S.C.
Militia War of 1812 (no dates) File size: 3.2 Kb