the Hammon Children

Rissa Edith Hammon 17 September 1886 25 March 1979

Rufus Ole Hammon  29 October 1880 17 March 1901

John Elbridge Hammon 16 August 1884 15 May 1978

Children of Nicholas Ebeneezer and Lucy Jane (Shaw) Hammon.

Rissa married George Dallas Henderson on 15 May 1906, Ripley County, Indiana. They went to Henderson, Montana, where Dallas worked as a lumberjack in his brother's camp, and Rissa served as Postmaster. When Dallas' parents died the following year, they returned to Indiana, and took over the family farm. Rissa worked as the bookkeeper for the Ripley County Farm Bureau, which Dallas managed, and later as a teller at the Osgood bank.

Rufus was kicked in the leg by a horse, and kept his injury a secret from his parents. Blood poisoning set in and led to his early death.

Elbridge also went out to Henderson, Montana, and cooked for the camp. He returned to Indiana as well, where he farmed, and served as Superintendent of the Ripley County Schools. He married Erma Pratt, 12 March 1914, in Illinois.

Another son, Merton Alva Hammon, was born 1882 and died 1884, another victim of an accident involving a horse. He was with his mother, returning to the family farm from nearby Versailles, Indiana. As they were pulling into the lane, the horse was spooked by a snake and bolted, upsetting the buckboard and crushing Merton.