Amos Worrill Hammond was the son of Job & Mary Worrill Hammond. His first wife was Elizabeth "Eliza" C. Hudson. He remarried Mary Ann McCary on April 11, 1841 in Culloden, Monroe County, Georgia.
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Proof still needed as to where Amos was born. One source shows Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina and his obituary shows Franklin County, Georgia.
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Amos Worrill Hammond Obituary
Oakland Cemetery
November 1877
Col. A. W. Hammond, 70, died November 24, 1877. Born in Franklin County, Georgia. When about 25 years of age, he removed to Ruckersville with his brother afterward, Dr. Hammond and opened a retail dry goods store. When about 30 years old he commenced the practice of law, running his store in the mean whlie.
In about 1830 he removed to Culloden, where he went into full time law practice and acquired great reputation as a pleader. He was noted for the care that he bestowed when the formal and technical part of his profession. In 1854 he moved to Atlanta and has lived here since, practicing law. He served during part of the war in the Confederate Army and was a faithful soldier. Col. P. W. Alexander tells the following anecdote concerning the old gentleman’s war experience: “He says he was knocking about the battlefield at Manassas getting the details of the fight when he saw Col. Hammond, with a musket in his hand and a pistol in his belt striding down the Bull Run road in immence haste. He asked where he was going. “They’ve got my son” he said, “and I’m going after him.” and off he went stalking like a lion toward the camp of the enemy.”
Col Hammond was noted for his courteous hospitality, his rigid integrity and his quiet delicious humor.
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Proof still needed as to where Amos was born. One source shows Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina and his obituary shows Franklin County, Georgia.
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Amos Worrill Hammond Obituary
Oakland Cemetery
November 1877
Col. A. W. Hammond, 70, died November 24, 1877. Born in Franklin County, Georgia. When about 25 years of age, he removed to Ruckersville with his brother afterward, Dr. Hammond and opened a retail dry goods store. When about 30 years old he commenced the practice of law, running his store in the mean whlie.
In about 1830 he removed to Culloden, where he went into full time law practice and acquired great reputation as a pleader. He was noted for the care that he bestowed when the formal and technical part of his profession. In 1854 he moved to Atlanta and has lived here since, practicing law. He served during part of the war in the Confederate Army and was a faithful soldier. Col. P. W. Alexander tells the following anecdote concerning the old gentleman’s war experience: “He says he was knocking about the battlefield at Manassas getting the details of the fight when he saw Col. Hammond, with a musket in his hand and a pistol in his belt striding down the Bull Run road in immence haste. He asked where he was going. “They’ve got my son” he said, “and I’m going after him.” and off he went stalking like a lion toward the camp of the enemy.”
Col Hammond was noted for his courteous hospitality, his rigid integrity and his quiet delicious humor.
Amos Worrill Hammond was the son of Job & Mary Worrill Hammond. His first wife was Elizabeth "Eliza" C. Hudson. He remarried Mary Ann McCary on April 11, 1841 in Culloden, Monroe County, Georgia.
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Proof still needed as to where Amos was born. One source shows Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina and his obituary shows Franklin County, Georgia.
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Amos Worrill Hammond Obituary
Oakland Cemetery
November 1877
Col. A. W. Hammond, 70, died November 24, 1877. Born in Franklin County, Georgia. When about 25 years of age, he removed to Ruckersville with his brother afterward, Dr. Hammond and opened a retail dry goods store. When about 30 years old he commenced the practice of law, running his store in the mean whlie.
In about 1830 he removed to Culloden, where he went into full time law practice and acquired great reputation as a pleader. He was noted for the care that he bestowed when the formal and technical part of his profession. In 1854 he moved to Atlanta and has lived here since, practicing law. He served during part of the war in the Confederate Army and was a faithful soldier. Col. P. W. Alexander tells the following anecdote concerning the old gentleman’s war experience: “He says he was knocking about the battlefield at Manassas getting the details of the fight when he saw Col. Hammond, with a musket in his hand and a pistol in his belt striding down the Bull Run road in immence haste. He asked where he was going. “They’ve got my son” he said, “and I’m going after him.” and off he went stalking like a lion toward the camp of the enemy.”
Col Hammond was noted for his courteous hospitality, his rigid integrity and his quiet delicious humor.
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Proof still needed as to where Amos was born. One source shows Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina and his obituary shows Franklin County, Georgia.
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Amos Worrill Hammond Obituary
Oakland Cemetery
November 1877
Col. A. W. Hammond, 70, died November 24, 1877. Born in Franklin County, Georgia. When about 25 years of age, he removed to Ruckersville with his brother afterward, Dr. Hammond and opened a retail dry goods store. When about 30 years old he commenced the practice of law, running his store in the mean whlie.
In about 1830 he removed to Culloden, where he went into full time law practice and acquired great reputation as a pleader. He was noted for the care that he bestowed when the formal and technical part of his profession. In 1854 he moved to Atlanta and has lived here since, practicing law. He served during part of the war in the Confederate Army and was a faithful soldier. Col. P. W. Alexander tells the following anecdote concerning the old gentleman’s war experience: “He says he was knocking about the battlefield at Manassas getting the details of the fight when he saw Col. Hammond, with a musket in his hand and a pistol in his belt striding down the Bull Run road in immence haste. He asked where he was going. “They’ve got my son” he said, “and I’m going after him.” and off he went stalking like a lion toward the camp of the enemy.”
Col Hammond was noted for his courteous hospitality, his rigid integrity and his quiet delicious humor.
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