This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAMMOND, GRAY, GIBBS, STEPHENS, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZS.2ADE/138.1.1 Message Board Post: Mathias HAMMOND and Mary GRAY(married 6 Feb 1812) are my son's four great grandparents via Mathias HAMMOND Jr.. Mathias HAMMOND Jr was born 3 Feb 1832, Sumter Co, AL. His daughter, Amelia Roundtree HAMMOND was born in Newton Co, MS, 8 Aug 1850. Amelia HAMMOND married Zachariah Louis or Lewis GIBBS, no marriage date or place, but believed to be Newton Co, MS. Their daughter Rosa Augustine GIBBS married Samuel Morgan STEPHENS. Their daughter Beulah Amelia STEPHENS married Newell Henry Simrall HUDSON. Their son, Michael Henry Hudson, m. Linda Gwyn WILSON, 29 March 1969 (me). Michael Henry HUDSON died 28 Feb 1992, Park Ridge, Cook Co, IL. Seeking information on the HAMMOND line and particularly would like to know if anyone knows who Mathias Hammond Jr. married. Amelia's siblings included Mary E? , Almina R., Nancy A.M., John M. and William B. Hammond. According to information I have passed down to me through the STEPHENS family, Mathias HAMMOND Sr. was an only child of John HAMMOND. Mathias HAMMOND Sr was one of the early settlers of Newton CO, MS. He died in Poplar Springs, south of Newton and is buried at Decatur. Mathias HAMMOND had at least 11 children.