> Does anyone know if this John Hamm was the same as the one later in > Stark Co. OH? He was associated with a German church group, which I > think was Brethren there. This may have been in the 1820 to 1840 era. > No - John Hamm died in North Carolina (Forks of the Yadkin, will written 12 Dec 1811, probated in Feb 1814 - that would be Rowan Co NC) Joseph Hamm, father of John, made out a will on 18 Oct 1794 (Forks of the Yadkin) - naming his wife, Seth, and five sons: Ezekiel, Daniel, Thomas, John and Jacob, and two daughters: Milly Holbrook and Rachel Watson. There is a Matthew Hamm in Simpson Co Kentucky (Drakes Creek area) but some indication that he was not Brethren, even though Drakes Creek was the church of that leading Brethren Universalist Elder, John Hendricks, who had hurriedly left Rowan Co (Forks of the Yadkin) in 1798 after the action of Annual Meeting, and moved to Kentucky. I have not tried to trace the descendants of John Hamm, or Joseph Hamm. I am sure there were a number of John Hamm grandchildren. Roger Sappington (The Brethren in the Carolinas, pp62-73) includes considerable information about him, probably the most that we have anywhere else. Both he and Don Durnbaugh (Brethren in Colonial America, pp327-332) include the Annual Meeting minutes, and the record of Universalist Historian, Richard Eddy, about John Hamm. Merle C Rummel