" but I also love knowing others in the family, and sharing old photos and family reunions.........perhaps I'm just getting old and far more sentimental about these things." I'm the same way! I almost wish I COULD restrict myself to just my direct line . . . sure would save a lot of time :) You have solved one mystery for me - I had decided that Boswell and Nancy Hammond must have had twins about 1850, and one of them died! But that was Mary/Eugenia, right? Interestingly, my branch of the family spells the name "Kansas" and I feel certain that is who my grandmother, Orrie Kansas Hammond, was named for. But I like the spelling "Cansis" - gives it a softer sound! Sometimes people want to know which spelling is "right", but I don't think one is right and one is wrong . . . they're just different. This all goes back to a time when communication was verbal to such an extent that spelling didn't matter much except in legal matters. Do you know who any of the other Hammond children (of Boswell and Nancy) married? I have that Catherine married a PHILLIPS, Frances married John BELL, and Martha married a CRANE. Of course I know that James Jefferson married Rebecca DANIEL, for they are my great-grandparents. And now I know about Mary Cansis/Eugenia and Joseph THOMPSON. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Benson" <jab50@bellsouth.net> To: <GAHEARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [GAHEARD] Alexander P. Daniel - Amanda C. McComb / McCombs - Heard County > That is very sad. I can also see a distinct possibility in the naming > pattern. > > I have two sets of great grandparents that lived in Heard County. One was > Reuben Ashley Sr. (b. 1819) and Amanda Minerva Dunlap Ashley. The other > one was Abraham Thompson and Martha Elizabeth "Patsy" Adams Thompson. > > Both of these had large families, but Reuben Sr. had at least two sons and > Abraham had at least two daughters. Reuben Jr. married one of Abraham's > daughters(Martha), and his brother William married the other > daughter.(Sarah).....a case of brothers marrying sisters. > > Both Sarah & Martha had a brother named Joseph Lewis Thompson who married > Mary Cansis Hammond (actually her birth name was Eugenia but the family > changed it when she was 10 years old). Uncle Joe & Aunt Mary's daughter, > Ollie Bell Thompson, was the one who married Robert Jefferson Daniel. > > One of the things I find the saddest in my genealogical pursuits is that > people often just does not take the lines far enough to make the link they > need to find so badly. I've had several researchers to tell me that they > don't go past first cousins. And, many times in sharing family history > with other cousins, they are not interested in any of the "knowns". All > they want to know is who was the father of Abraham or Reuben Sr. Over > 3,000 names of known descendants in my database and it seems ironic to me to > fixate on one person only. I'd like to know that answer, too, but I also > love knowing others in the family, and sharing old photos and family > reunions.........perhaps I'm just getting old and far more sentimental about > these things. > > Thank you for sharing that information with me. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jack and Dorothy <dorothy917@bellsouth.net> > To: <GAHEARD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:55 PM > Subject: Re: [GAHEARD] Alexander P. Daniel - Amanda C. McComb / McCombs - > Heard County > > > > It's a sad story . . . Rufus (middle name believed to be Alexander) Daniel > > was "killed in a gin accident when 11 years of age. He got his head hung > in > > a horse-drawn lever. He is buried at Salem Methodist Church" (quoted from > > the DLB notes). > > > > Your grandfather might have named your father in his memory. > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Yes. Aunt Mary is found on the first census following her birth (1860) listed as Eugenia and her name was changed around the time she was age 10 according to her family descendants. On the 1870 census she is listed as Mary C. I had asked my cousins about the Hammonds and was told that they really had not done much on that line other than list Boswell & Nancy's children so I did do a little research into that family. After all, Aunt Mary's children and her sibling's children were all first cousins and grandchildren of Boswell & Nancy's so I really wanted to know more about them. I discovered that the name Kansas was in the Hammond family lines and asked if perhaps Aunt Mary's name should be that way but all of her descendants spell it as Cansis. Kinda reminds me of my kids and all their names beginning with the letter K which most people spell the same names with the letter C. So maybe they were like me and just liked it spelled a different way from the norm. Uncle Joe had a business there in Heard County and I've got a copy of his business ledger covering the years 1889-1895. Did you know that he made Aunt Mary something that was almost unheard of during that time......what we would call a Lazy Susan today? It was a huge round table with a carousal and he also made one for his children later on. Some of these still exist today in his descendants. He made Aunt Mary a pie "cubbard", a storage cabinet, built like a desk with a cover that raised from the top, used to store her baked goods. He was marvelous with woodwork of any kind. Uncle Joe & Aunt Mary built a new house in 1884 that was located on Bowdon Highway 100, near the Salem Church. It was a large house where they raised their family. During the late 1890s there were 10 Thompson family members plus teachers from Simpson School living in the house. Their daughter, Lucy, married one of the teachers, Colonel Dick "C D" Barnes on April 26, 1903. Uncle Joe lost three fingers which were severed at his saw mill and Aunt Mary put them in a small box and buried them in her garden. I guess they are still there. I'll have to find my Hammond notes and get back to you on that, perhaps on a personal basis, since I am sure that there are many who wish I would get off their computers and shut up. But, I've many many notes and family members on Aunt Mary & Uncle Joe's children and grandchildren and great grandchildren and beyond.

My Thompson family history gives the names of some of these children of Boswell & Nancy's but somewhere down the line, I think there must be a few mistakes, or the possibility of two spouses since not all of my cousins agree with my Thompson notes. However, my Thompson cousins knew far better than I did who aunt Mary's siblings & spouses were so I have to listen to both of them. I will list here what is contained in my Thompson history notes: 1. The first child is listed as James Robert Hammond. His wife's given name is all that it gives. Her name was Amanda. According to my notes, James Robert Hammond was born 1833 in Oglethorpe County, GA, died July 27, 1852 in Atlanta, GA during the Civil War. Age at death estimated to be 19. According to some of my Hammond cousins, his middle name was Rufus instead of Robert. 2. Catherine Hammond, born 1834 in Oglethorpe County, GA, married Littleton Phillips. She is buried at Ridgeway Methodist Church Cemetery. She died about 1915. *Peggy Benefield Gilbert Shaw is connected to this family line and she is a great researcher. She has changed email addresses and I can't seem to locate it at the moment. 3. Martha Hammond, b. about 1835 in Oglethorpe County, GA. Neither my Thompson cousins nor some of the Hammond cousins had a spouse listed for Martha or any further data on her. 4. John H. Hammond, b. 1838 in Oglethorpe County, GA has his wife's given name listed as Susan but no last name. 5. Lucy Jane Hammond, b. 1842 in Oglethorpe County, GA. Spouse listed was Jesse Gunn according to my Thompson cousins. My Hammond cousins have him listed as Jessie James Gunn. 6. Archie B. Hammond (Archibald Hammond), b. 1843 in Heard County, GA, died 1919 in Heard County, GA, buried Olive Branch Church Cemetery. Wife was Susan Ann Harris (who was the daughter of John G. Harris & Sidney Pye). We have a cousin named Betty Thornton Jones who has compiled a lot of data on Archibald & Susan's descendants from this line. Betty's email is bluefeth@aol.com She also has other cousins listed on her MyFamily.com website. 7. Frances "Fannie" Hammond, b. December 25, 1844 in Heard County, GA, died August 5, 1927 in Heard County, GA and buried at Salem UMC Cemetery. She married John Bell. 8. Boswell Hammond Jr., b. 1846 in Heard County, GA. His wife's given name is listed as Jane. My Hammond cousins have her name listed as Mary Jane. (He is listed on my CW webpages at http://www.geocities.com/csareserve1/index.html ) as B. Hammond in Company A and so is his brother Joseph Lyon Hammond. 9. Joseph Hammond, b. 1849 in Heard County, GA. Now, this one is a dilly of a point because Aunt Mary's descendants have his wife listed as Sarah Mathis, b. 1848, married November 11, 1884. According to my Hammond cousins, this one was named Joseph Lyon Hammond and he married Sarah Elizabeth Gunn and Joseph & Sarah married January 11, 1866. A wonderful descendant of this line is Amy Penn. Her email address is listed on my CW webpages by Joseph's name. 10. Jim Hammond (??) This must be your James Jefferson Hammond and my Thompson cousins knew him as Jim. Born 1850 in Heard County, GA. Wife's given name was Rebecca. 11. Wiley B. Hammond, b. 1855. Wife's given name listed as Fannie. 12. Bill Hammond, b. 1856 in Troup County, GA. My Hammond cousins tell me this was William Mason Hammond that married Pernina O. Hester. These two buried over in Randolph County, AL 13. Eugenia / Mary Cansis Hammond............which I have already listed her data previously and will not add here again. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack and Dorothy <dorothy917@bellsouth.net> To: <GAHEARD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [GAHEARD] Alexander P. Daniel - Amanda C. McComb / McCombs - Heard County > Do you know who any of the other Hammond children (of Boswell and Nancy) > married? I have that Catherine married a PHILLIPS, Frances married John > BELL, and Martha married a CRANE. Of course I know that James Jefferson > married Rebecca DANIEL, for they are my great-grandparents. And now I know > about Mary Cansis/Eugenia and Joseph THOMPSON.