XLVIII. ELIZA HAMMOND, (MARY, MATTHEW, JOHN, JOHN), the youngest daughter of James and Mary Brown Hammond was born in White Deer Valley, Lycoming county, Pa., June 24, 1804, and died October 5, 1850. Being her youngest child, and but two years of age at the time her death occurred, the compiler has no recollection of her, but as a fitting tribute, a sentence, embodied in five words, which has been repeated by her pastor and by many of her acquaintances in the hearing of the writer, and which is expressive of every virtue, is here repeated: “She was a good woman.” She married, in 1832, SAMUEL SHANNON*, son of David and Ann Sample Shannon, born at the Stone Tavern, Northumberland county, Pa., August 9, 1798, and died May 2, 1880; his remains, together with those of his wife, are buried in the graveyard at the Warrior Run Church.
*Samuel Shannon born in 1718, emigrated from the Province of Ulster, Ireland, in 1749, and settled in Bucks county, Pa. He was the father of eight children, viz.:
1. Margaret Shannon, born April 19, 1743;
2. Jean Shannon, born May 21, 1745;
3. Mary Shannon, born October 25, 1747;
4. John Shannon, born June 30, 1751;
5. Samuel Shannon, born November 4, 1754;
6. David Shannon, his third son, married Ann Sample, daughter of Captain Robert Sample who served in the Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Continental Line, and who was one of the original subscribers of the Society of the Cincinnati. They had nine children, as follows:
a. Ann Shannon, born August 1, 1780, married William Wilson;
b. Jean Shannon, born June 30, 1783, died young;
c. Margaret Shannon, born September 8, 1785, married Joseph McGuire;
d. Mary Shannon, born October 27, 1787, married ____, Belles;
e. John Shannon, born April 8, 1789, married and removed to Iowa;
f. Elizabeth Shannon, born July 8, 1796, married ____, Scott;
g. Samuel Shannon, born August 9, 1798, married Eliza Hammond;
h. James Shannon, born November 2, 1800, never married;
i. Robert Shannon, born April 18, 1802, married Maria DeFrees.
About the year 1790, David Shannon removed to Northumberland county, locating about two miles north of Fort Freeland, where he eventually erected the Stone Tavern, which to the present time stands, a substantial and well known landmark, on the highway between Milton and Williamsport.
