Obituary for Minnie F. Jordan Ham Stancil

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Obituary 
                  of
      Minnie F. Jordan Ham Stancil
                  of 
         Union Parish Louisiana
                1905

Source:
   Farmerville "Gazette", issue 8 February 1905

Transcription of article:
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A Terrible Mistake

     News reached Farmerville Saturday morning of a terrible tragedy which occurred 
Friday night at the residence of Mr. Mack Stancil who lives about eight miles east 
of town, resulting in the killing of Mrs. Stancil by her son, Palmer Ham.

     It seems that young Ham, who is about 16 years of age and another boy of his 
own age were out in the yard playing and observing a light in the field back of the 
house they became frightened and ran into the house and asked Mr. Stancil where the 
gun was as they thought some one was prowling around the place. Young Ham secured 
the gun and went out the back door and around the house and in the meantime Mrs. 
Stancil had gone out the back way and was standing on the back gallery watching the 
light, which was evidently only someone passing by. The boy came up within about 30 
feet and discovered hhis mother standing on the gallery and thinking that she was 
some prowler, raised his gun and fired without saying a word. When the gun fired 
she screamed and Mr. Stancil, recognizing his wife's voice went in search of her 
and found her at the door-steps stone dead.

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Comments:
According to her tombstone in the Taylor/Liberty Hill Cemetery, Minnie F. Jordan 
was born on 10 Nov 1857 in Talbot County Georgia. She married Hillory Herbert Ham 
(Jr.) in about 1881, although the marriage is not recorded in Union Parish. Ham was 
nown as "Hillory Herbert Ham, Jr.", "H. Hub Ham", or "H. Hubbard Ham", to 
distinguish him from his close relative by the same name born in about 1828. Hub 
Ham was born 3 September 1834 in Alabama, probably the son of Reuben Ham who married Frances 
Edwards; Reuben & Frances divorced in 1842, presumably leaving young Hillory to 
be raised by his uncle, William Ham and his wife Clarenda Seale Ham.

H. H. Ham, Jr. first married Louisa J. Dean and they had three children before 
her death in 1879. Minnie F. Jordan and Ham also had three children, the youngest 
of whom was Palmer H. Ham, born September 1888. Their three children were aged 
between six months and seven years when H. Hub Ham died on 16 March 1889.

I have little information on Palmer H. Ham after his mother's death, except that 
he married Rosa Lou Brantley on 12 February 1911 in Union Parish.

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