Lincoln County, West Virginia The Biography of Rev. Meredith HAMMACK The Biography of Rev. Meredith HAMMACK was submitted by Pat R. Adkins, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm Source: Hardesty, Henry H. Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, New York: H. H. Hardesty and Company, 1894. Rpt. in West Virginia heritage encyclopedia. Ed. Jim Comstock. Richwood: Comstock 1974 REV. MEREDITH HAMMACK --and Martha Walker were united in wedlock in Roane county, West Virgina April 9, 1863, and they have been blessed with eight children all now living at home, Mary Catherine born Janurary 1, 1864; Daniel St.Clair, July 6, 1865; Elizabeth Mildred, April 6, 1866; John Monroe May 19, 1867; Nathaniel March 11, 1869; Sarah Jane, December 21, 1871; Hugh Pepin, November 5, 1879; Olevia Belle, March 11, 1882; Mrs. Hammack was born in Botetourt County, Virginia. February 1, 1841, and her parents are Daniel and Catherine (Myers) Walker; the former died in 1879. Mr. Hammack has been a member of the Christian Church twenty years and he has been an ordained minister twelve years. His wife and daughter, Mary C., belong to the same church, the former having been a member eighteen years. Mr. Hammack was born in Roane county (now) West Virginia, November 27, 1842 and he is a son of St. Clair and Catherine (Phillips) Hammack, residents of Lincoln county. Meredith Hammack came to Lincoln county in 1881, and now owns a grist and saw mill on Big Creek, six miles northeast from Hamlin. For two years he was a member of the board of school examiners in Roane county, and he has taught school for twelve years. The postoffice address of the Rev. Mr. Hammack is Hamlin, Lincoln county, West Virginia.