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- H. John Hammer
- W. John Hammer (add)
m. 1 Mar 1876
Facts and Events
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- Atchison Daily Globe 26 Oct 1926
ATCHISON COUNTY PIONEER IS DEAD AT OLATHE, KAS.
J. B. Hamners, for many years a prominent farmer of the Muscotah neighborhood, died at Olathe, Kas., last night at seven o'clock, at the residence of a daughter, Mrs. W. L. Forrest.
Mr. Hamner has been at Olathe for about four years, going there from Versailles, Mo., where he resided on a farm two years after leaving Atchison county.
Mr. Hamner retired from his farm, four miles south of Muscotah, fourteen years ago and for eight years resided in Effingham.
He was born in Indiana July 5, 1842, and came to Atchison county with his parents in 1854, residing in Atchison county continuously for 63 years.
His wife died at Effingham in 1917.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Forrest, at Olathe, and Mrs. P. L. Botkin of Shidler, Okla.; four sons, Wayne Hamner, 525 Laramie street, Wallace Hamner, of Valley Falls, Mark Hamner of Topeka, and George Hamner of Kanarado, Kas., and two sisters, Mrs. Sallie Whiteis, of Wiley Colo. and Mrs. John Peedler, of Meriden, Kas., Sam Walters, 517 Atchison street is a brother-in-law.
Mr. Hamner was a member of the Methodist church of Effingham at his death and of the modern Woodmen lodge.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Methodist church at Muscotah Thursday afternoon at two o'clock with burial in the Muscotah cemetery. - Sarah Ann Hale
Sex: F
Birth: 1849 in Lousiana, Lawrence, Kentucky
Death: 1917 in Effingham, Atchison, Kansas
Burial: Muscotah Cemetery, Muscotah, Kansas
Note:
1900 Federal census
Kapioma Township, Atchison, Kansas (ed 16, 3B)
Hamner, John B., head, jul 1842, 57, md for 24, IN, KY, TN, farming
Sarah A., wife, feb 1849, 51, md for 24, mother of 7 children, 6 living, KY, KY, KY
Dewayne, son, jan 1877, 23, single, KS, IN, KY
Florence M., dau, apr 1879, 21, single, KS, IN, KY
John W., son, jan 1881, 19, single, KS, IN, KY
Mark C., son, sep 1884, 15, sin, KS, IN, KY
Belle, dau, nov 1886, 13, single, KS, IN, KY
George M., son, jul 1890, 9, single, KS, IN, KY
Arthur, grandson, apr 1896, single, KS, KS, KS
Mildred, granddau, jan 1899, 1, single, CO, KS, KS
1910 Federal Census
Kapioma Township, Atchison, Kansas (p23)
Hamner, JB, head, 67, md for 34, IN, KY, TN, farmer
Sara, wife, 61, md for 34, mother of 7 children, 6 living, KY, KY, KY
Florence, dau, 30, single, KS, IN, KY, instructor music
Mark, son, 25, single, KS, IN, KY, laborer
Belle, dau, 22, single, KS, IN, KY, instructor school
Arthur, grandson, 13, single, KS, KS, KS
Mildred, granddaughter, 11, CO, KS, KS
- The following transcription is from a 750 page book titled "Genealogical and Biographical Record of North-Eastern Kansas," dated 1900. These have been diligently transcribed and generously contributed by Penny R. Harrell; please give her a very big Thank You for her hard work!
...The Hon. John Benton Hamner is one of the best known citizens of Atchison county, where he has resided almost forty-five years. In his early manhood he passed through the hardships and untold privations of the frontiersman and fully realizes what it means to locate in wild, undeveloped region, to contend with the obstacles placed in the way of success by nature, who yields her undisputed sway most grudgingly and smiles only upon those of the utmost hardihood and bravery of spirit.
...Mr. Hammer was fortunately endowed with a liberal supply of pluck and enterprise, as well as with a strong, rugged constitution, well calculated to withstand trials which fall to the pioneer's lot. His grand-father, James Hamner, who was a native of Kentucky, was one of the early settlers of that state, and his father, John Hamner, was one of the forerunners of civilization in Missouri. The grandfather served as a soldier in the War of 1812.
...The father of our subject was born and reared in Kentucky, there marrying Matilda Sprowl, a native of Tennessee. They moved to Indiana, where they lived for some time, and in 1845 located in Buchanan county, Missouri. Five years later they purchased a farm in the same county, the site of the now thriving city of St. Joseph. Subsequently they crossed the Missouri river and thenceforward were identified with the development of Atchison county.
...The father died in 1861 at Mann's Grove, Kansas, and is survived by his wife, who is seventy-eight years of age. Politically he was a Democrat and religiously both were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. The brothers and sisters of our subject were named as follows: Mrs. Margaret Jane Howard; Thomas Franklin; Mrs. Sarah E. White, whose home is near Fort Scott, Indian territory; William B., of California; Mrs. Julia Ann Peebles, of Jefferson county, Kansas; Mrs. Nancy Catherine Walters, of Kansas City; and A. Lincoln, who was born on the day that President Lincoln first took the oath as chief executive of the United States.
...The birth of John Benton Hamner took place near Columbus, Bartholomew county, Indiana, July 5, 1842, and was reared as a farmer's boy, early learning the lessons of industry which have been of paramount importance in his mature years. He was thirteen years old when, on the 5th of June, 1855, he came to Atchison county, which he has since looked upon as his home.
...As may be expected, his educational opportunities of that day were extremely meager, though for some time he attended a district school in Missouri and also for a few months after coming to Kansas. As every student of history knows, eastern Kansas was a battlefield of contending factions prior to and during the Civil War, and Mr. Hamner distinctly remembers numerous occurrences fraught with intense danger and interest to friends or acquaintances of his in that stormy period.
...He was a witness of the placing of the Rev. Pardee Butler, a noted anti-slavery agitator, upon a frail raft which was launched upon the torrents of the Missouri river by a mob of people at Atchison. In his young manhood Mr. Hamner traveled extensively throughout the west and made three trips across the plains. He visited Salt Lake City, Virginia City, Denver and other points when they were tiny mining camps, and on one occasion, June 10, 1863, he was with a train which was intercepted by a band of Indians near Denver.
...After a brave resistance on the part of the white men the latter made their escape, glad to save their lives, and the red skins were the richer by some twenty head of horses, eighteen mules and property valued at about five thousand dollars.
...More than a score of years ago Mr. Hamner purchased his present homestead, the land then being wild. He has since reduced it to cultivation, planting twenty acres of it with orchards, while the remainder, one hundred and forty acres, is kept for the raising of crops and for pasture land. Good improvements and farm buildings make this one of the best farms in Kapioma township. Industry and well applied business principles have wrought out success for the proprietor, who is deservedly popular with all who know him.
...His marriage took place in the Centennial year, his bride being Sarah Ann Hale, a native of Louisiana, Lawrence county, Kentucky. Her parents, Ira and Rebecca (Goodwin) Hale, were both also of the Blue Grass State. They came to Atchison county in 1854, took up a claim here and were among the first settlers of this county. He built a saw mill, where was cut the lumber used in the construction of the first house erected on the site of Atchison.
...Mr. Hale died in El Dorado, Butler county, Kansas in 1886, having survived his wife about twenty years, as her death took place September 3, 1866. She left six children to mourn her loss and three of the number have joined her in the better land.
...James E. Hales now resides in Neosho, Wilson county, Kansas and Londilla is the wife of J. A. Hubbard, of Arrington, Kansas. Of the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hamner, one died in infancy. Walter, now living in Pueblo, Colorado, lost his wife, and their two children Arthur and Mildred, are with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hamner. The younger children of this worthy couple are named Wayne, Florence, Wallace, Mark, Belle and George.
...Our subject and wife are members of the Methodist church and are sincere friends to the causes of religion and education. In 1889 Mr. Hamner was chosen by his fellow citizens to represent Kapioma township as a trustee, and also in 1890, and well did he meet the obligation thus imposed.
...He has ever been faithful to the interests of the majority, as he believes and possesses the respect of even his political opponents.
...http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/atchison/bios/jbhamner.htm
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