The son of Jacob Samuel & Susan Ann (Degan) Hamm, in 1860 he was a farmer living in Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, given that he was sixteen years of age at enlistment and claimed to be twenty, he almost certainly enlisted as a substitute, although the compiled military service records for his regiment do not clearly distinguish between the conscript and the substitute. He enlisted in York County October 24, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 7 as a private with Co. B, 166th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863. His surname is also spelled "Hamms" on the rolls.
It is possible that he served two weeks with the Hay Independent Militia Company in September 1862, but it is not confirmed it is the same Samuel Hamm.
At an unusually young age, he married Mary Stump ca. 1863 and fathered Janetta (b. 11/11/64), Almeda (b. 05/26/66), Minnie (b. 05/30/69), Albert "Birdie" (b. 05/07/70), Fannie May (b. 04/02/72), Howard (b. @1874), and Horatio (b. @1876). In 1890, he was living in Penn Township, York County.
No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive other than a one-line death notice in the New Oxford Item. He had been previously reported as buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hanover.
The son of Jacob Samuel & Susan Ann (Degan) Hamm, in 1860 he was a farmer living in Manheim Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, given that he was sixteen years of age at enlistment and claimed to be twenty, he almost certainly enlisted as a substitute, although the compiled military service records for his regiment do not clearly distinguish between the conscript and the substitute. He enlisted in York County October 24, 1862, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg November 7 as a private with Co. B, 166th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company July 28, 1863. His surname is also spelled "Hamms" on the rolls.
It is possible that he served two weeks with the Hay Independent Militia Company in September 1862, but it is not confirmed it is the same Samuel Hamm.
At an unusually young age, he married Mary Stump ca. 1863 and fathered Janetta (b. 11/11/64), Almeda (b. 05/26/66), Minnie (b. 05/30/69), Albert "Birdie" (b. 05/07/70), Fannie May (b. 04/02/72), Howard (b. @1874), and Horatio (b. @1876). In 1890, he was living in Penn Township, York County.
No obituary was found in any online newspaper archive other than a one-line death notice in the New Oxford Item. He had been previously reported as buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hanover.
Family Members
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Henry Degen Hamm
1845–1929
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Mary Ann Hamm Thoman
1848–1929
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Julia Ann Hamm Carver
1850–1940
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Catherine Hamm Kerchner
1851–1947
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Daniel D. Hamm
1853–1871
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Nathan Hamm
1854–1875
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Magdalena I Hamm Trone
1856–1926
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George D. Hamme
1859–1946
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Charles G. Hamme
1861–1906
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Emma Amelia Hamm Houck
1862–1918
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Jacob C. Hamme
1864–1912
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Ella M. Hamm Keesey
1868–1926
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Abigail "Abbie" Hamm Sterner
1870–1952
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