In 2017 - our YDNA was done for our Almand family.
Our name is not ALMAND/ALMOND or any variations of this name.
We can only trace (with proofs) our family line back to Thomas Almand, Sr. born 1762 who married Annice Ussery.

Descendants from three (3) of Thomas and Nancy Davis Almand's sons have done familytree YDNA:
David Butler Almand, Peter Bennett Almand and Joseph Hamilton Almand.

There are only four (4) names of Almand variations. At this point we may never find the answer to this. Contact me if you are interested in these YDNA results.

The various spellings for the Almand name that we see on Census pages,etc are what the person taking the Census put down. In family Bibles and legal papers we see this Almand family in Newton and Rockdale County - spelt their name ALMAND.

All that I post on findagrave has been a labor of love and required many years of research and hard labor.

If you take information that I have posted on my findagrave Memorials..... please, give me credit for my research.
Thank you! Shirley Ann Bennett Barham
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Joseph Hamilton Almand and his first wife, Catherine Ann Henry Almand were divorced in 1851 Newton County Georgia.
She refused to live with him. (Please visit her findagrave memorial.)

Joseph Hamilton Almand served in the CSA as a Private
in the State Guard-8th Regiment Company G
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ROCKDALE BANNER CONYERS, GA
THURSDAY, NOVMEBER 4, 1887
VOL XXI

FROM A FRIEND

EDITORY BANNER: The writer was well acquainted with Joseph Hamilton Almand for more than a quarter of a century, and being present at his funeral services my mind naturally ran back over the years of my acquaintanceship with him and his manner of life.
His devotion to his children was something wonderful, and his strong desire to see them happily situated and prosperous seemed to occupy his thoughts above every thing else. Having a peculiar temperament and disposition very few people thoroughly understood him, and yet his honest and integrity were fixed principles of his life.
Having been raised in the country, his education was limited and his surroundings were different from many, and while he seemed at times indifferent to many things which were being advocated by others, yet upon all questions of morality and good government he was always on the right side, ready to fearlessly enunciate his convictions and to stand by them at the ballot box.
Well do I remember his peculiar anxiety and interest in the prohibition elections, how untiring and zealous he was, and when he was informed of the result how he shed tears of joy over the victory.
Being a member of the building committee of the M.E. Church at Conyers, he was always prompt and faithful in attending all the meetings of the committee and ever ready to do whatever was his duty in the matter. He was only a man, and therefore subject to shortcomings as other men, but his virtues were so prominent that we can but admire him for them.
Let us all emulate his virtues, and if he had short comings, may the mantle of charity effectually hide them, and may God console and comfort his loved ones left behind is the wish of a Friend.