Hammer, A. T. “Thomp” 1843-1898

HAMMER

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Date: 4/30/2005 at 10:01:17

The Newton (IA) Record Thursday, May 5, 1898
Dies at the Soldier’s Home
Hammer, A. T. “Thomp”

A. T. Hammer ­ better know as Thomp Hammer in this vicinity where the greater part of his life had been spent ­ died in the hospital at the Soldier’s Home in Marshalltown at 4 o’clock Monday morning, aged fifty-five years, one month and twenty-two days.

Comrade Hammer had been an inmate of the Home for something over a year. For some time he had suffered with Bright’s disease, which refused to yield to the best medical skill that the hospital afforded. Last Sunday morning his half-brother, Dr. M. R. Hammer, of this city, accompanied by his wife and two sons, drove over to Marshalltown to spend the afternoon with him, and left him in the evening, feeling quite cheerful and happy, although knowing that the end could not be very far removed yet little dreaming that it was so near. Monday morning the Doctor received a telegram saying that he had passed away at four o’clock. Jasper F. Hammer, another brother, of Ottumwa, was with him when the final summons came.

A. T. Hammer was the eldest son of Jesse Hammer, one of the pioneers of Jasper County. He was born in Jefferson County Tenn., March 10th, 1843. He came with his parents to this vicinity in 1847, and his youth and early manhood were spent here. In 1863 he enlisted in Capt. Elisha Hammer’s Company G, Seventh Iowa Cavalry, and served faithfully until the close of the war a good part of the time as regimental clerk at Col. Heath’s headquarters. He grew up and died strong in the belief in the doctrines of the Friends’ Church.

The body was brought to Newton on Tuesday. Funeral services were held at the Central Church of the Friends’ near Amboy, at 2 o’clock yesterday, attended by a large concourse of his friends and relatives, who followed the remains to their last resting place in the Quaker Cemetery.

Thomp was a good man and his death has caused deep sorrow in many hearts.

Originally submitted on Fri Sep 20 19:05:00 2002