Hammer, Hannah (Mills) 1820-1899

HAMMER, MILLS, MURDOCK, VANNESS

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Date: 4/30/2005 at 10:04:41

The Newton (IA) Record Thursday, August 10, 1899
Death of Aunt Hannah Hammer
Hammer, Hannah (Mills)

Aunt Hannah Hammer, who had for fifty-two years been a resident of Jasper County, died at her home near Amboy last Thursday, aged nearly four score years. She was a lovely old woman, esteemed not only by her numerous relatives, but by all who have ever known her.

Her maiden name was Hannah Mills. She was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., in 1820. In her young womanhood she was married to Henry Hammer. In 1846 they moved to Richland, this State, and the following year came to Jasper County and settled on the farm in Hammer Grove, where her husband died about twenty-five years ago, and where she continued to live until her life work was ended.

She had been the mother of ten children, five of whom are living: Z. M. Hammer, Amboy, Mrs. Betsy Mills, Richland, Ira L. Hammer, Kellogg, Mrs. Ella Murdock, Laurel, and H. C. Hammer of Amboy, with whom the aged mother had made her home for a couple of years, also, a granddaughter, Miss Ethel Vanness, whom Aunt Hannah had raised from infancy.

The funeral occurred on Friday afternoon, and the remains of the dear old mother in Israel, were laid to rest beside those of her husband and four children in the Friends grave yard near Center Church­ one son, Emos, who was a soldier in the 7th Iowa Cavalry being buried at Topeka, Kan., in 1864.

Originally submitted on Fri Oct 18 19:57:41 2002