Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Clinton HAMMOND ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Adams County Press, August 27, 1898 Page 1 Column 5 AN EARLY SETTLER OF ADAMS COUNTY PASSES AWAY Aug. 12, M. F. HAMMOND received a telegram saying his brother Clinton, who resided in Iowa, could not live. M. F. and his brother, Daniel, took the evening train from necedah and arrived at their destination the following evening to find that their brother was buried that afternoon, the 13th. He was taken one week before with inflammation of the bowels, and although he had the best medical skill and kindest care nothing could arrest the disease and he passed away Friday morning. Clinton was fifty years old, the youngest of a family of eight, four boys and four girls, and was always considered very healthy. He had a happy, cheerful disposition which won him friends wherever he went. His father, Jonathon HAMMOND, came from New York and settled in Adams county, Wisconsin, in 1851. About 23 years ago Clinton went to Chicasaw, Iowa, later was married to Alice FEENA. Besides his widow, he leaves a family of four children, one girl, eighteen, married, and three boys, the oldest twelve, the youngest, four. Although his family and friends miss him and mourn for him deeply, they are comforted by his dying words of faith and hope. He said to his wife a few hours before his death, "Alice, I shall be in Heaven to-day." And later he said, "I shall partake of the Lord's supper to-night in Heaven." He grieved to leave his family, otherwise he was ready and willing to go. He has been a church member for several years.