Hammer, Lyday (Mills) 1833-1896

MILLS, HAMMER, BATACHELOR, OWENS, BEALS

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 7/24/2003 at 09:39:01

Mrs. Lyday Hammer, wife of Elisha Hammer, well known by our old citizens as among the early settlers of Jasper County, died quite suddenly of heart disease at her home in East Des Moines, last Sunday morning. The body was brought to Amboy on Wednesday, where funeral services were held at Center Friends Church, and the body interred in the Friends Cemetery near by.

Mrs. Hammer’s maiden name was Lydia Mills, she was born January 12, 1833 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, and with her parents came to Keokuk County, Iowa. In 1853 she was united in marriage to Elisha Hammer by Judge Edmundson, on the old home farm east of Newton. She leaves three sons and one daughter – Harrison Hammer and Mrs. Julia Batchelor, of Des Moines; A. Jay Hammer, of Muchakinock, and Guy Hammer, of West Waterloo; all of whom with the bereaved husband, were in attendance at their mother’s funeral; also her two sisters, Mrs. Martha Owens, of Newton, and Mrs. Mary Beals, of Page County, and her brothers, Benj. Mills, of Hardin County and Macy Mills, of Keokuk.

Mrs. Hammer was converted and united with the M. E. Church during the Hestwood Revival in the winter of 1861-62. She was a faithful, consistent Christian, and highly respected and loved by all who knew her. Her old friends in Newton and vicinity will be deeply grieved on learning of her death. For her husband and children, the tenderest sympathy is felt by everybody. ~ The Newton (IA) Record, Friday, February 28, 1896, Page 1, Column 1

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