Son of John Hammer and Nancy York
Married Nancy Jane Elston, 26 Dec 1826, Wayne County, Kentucky
Children: Nancy Jane Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Austin Hammer, John Austin Hammer, Rebecca Ann Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Julia Ann Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Josiah Hammer
Location: on the north bank of Shoal Creek, in what is now Fairview Township.
The number killed and mortally wounded in this wanton slaughter at Haun's Mill was eighteen or nineteen, whose names as far as I recollect were as follows: Thomas McBride, Levi N. Merrick, Elias Benner, Josiah Fuller, Benjamin Lewis, Alexander Campbell, Warren Smith, Sardius Smith, George S. Richards, Mr. William Napier, Augustine Harmer, Simon Cox, Mr. [Hiram] Abbott, John York, Charles Merrick, (a boy eight or nine nears old), [John Lee, John Byers], and three or four others, whose names I do not recollect, as they were strangers, to me.
Among the wounded who recovered were Isaac Laney, Nathan K. Knight, Mr. [William] Yokum, two brothers by the name of [Jacob and George] Myers, Tarlton Lewis, Mr. [Jacob] Haun, and several others, [Jacob Foutz, Jacob Potts, Charles Jimison, John Walker, Alma Smith, aged about nine years]. Miss Mary Stedwell, while fleeing, was shot through the hand, and, fainting, fell over a log, into which they shot upwards of twenty balls.
Written by Amanda Smith. Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. (History of the Church, 3:323-325)
Lyman Littlefield, Reminiscences of Latter-Day Saints, Logan, Utah: The Utah Journal Co., 1888, Chapter V, p. 66-76.
Austin Hammer, son of John and Nancy York Hammer was born 6 May 1804 in South Carolina. He married Nancy Elston, 7 September 1826 in Wayne County Kentucky; a daughter of Josiah Elston and Rebecca Lewis. Soon after their marriage they moved to Ohio, where they lived three years. They then moved to Henry County, Indiana. After five years they moved to Shole Creek, Caldwell County, Missouri; where they had title to 180 acres of land.
Austin and sixteen other men were killed 30 October 1838 while guarding Haun's grist mill to keep the mob from burning it. These men were put in a dry well and covered with stray and dirt to cover their bodies. The mob was so bad they did not dare to attempt to give them a proper burial.
After the death of Austin Hammer, his wife took her family of six children and went to Illinois. Their outfit consisted of a blind horse and a light wagon. Their baby, Julia, and the small boy, Austin were the only ones to ride. Little Austin was sick. Only two of the family had shoes. The others tied their feet up in rags and made the journey of two hundred miles in the latter part of November and December of 1838.
Austin embraced the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was baptized in 1835, in Henry County, Indiana.
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Married Nancy Jane Elston, 26 Dec 1826, Wayne County, Kentucky
Children: Nancy Jane Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Austin Hammer, John Austin Hammer, Rebecca Ann Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Julia Ann Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Josiah Hammer
Location: on the north bank of Shoal Creek, in what is now Fairview Township.
The number killed and mortally wounded in this wanton slaughter at Haun's Mill was eighteen or nineteen, whose names as far as I recollect were as follows: Thomas McBride, Levi N. Merrick, Elias Benner, Josiah Fuller, Benjamin Lewis, Alexander Campbell, Warren Smith, Sardius Smith, George S. Richards, Mr. William Napier, Augustine Harmer, Simon Cox, Mr. [Hiram] Abbott, John York, Charles Merrick, (a boy eight or nine nears old), [John Lee, John Byers], and three or four others, whose names I do not recollect, as they were strangers, to me.
Among the wounded who recovered were Isaac Laney, Nathan K. Knight, Mr. [William] Yokum, two brothers by the name of [Jacob and George] Myers, Tarlton Lewis, Mr. [Jacob] Haun, and several others, [Jacob Foutz, Jacob Potts, Charles Jimison, John Walker, Alma Smith, aged about nine years]. Miss Mary Stedwell, while fleeing, was shot through the hand, and, fainting, fell over a log, into which they shot upwards of twenty balls.
Written by Amanda Smith. Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. (History of the Church, 3:323-325)
Lyman Littlefield, Reminiscences of Latter-Day Saints, Logan, Utah: The Utah Journal Co., 1888, Chapter V, p. 66-76.
Austin Hammer, son of John and Nancy York Hammer was born 6 May 1804 in South Carolina. He married Nancy Elston, 7 September 1826 in Wayne County Kentucky; a daughter of Josiah Elston and Rebecca Lewis. Soon after their marriage they moved to Ohio, where they lived three years. They then moved to Henry County, Indiana. After five years they moved to Shole Creek, Caldwell County, Missouri; where they had title to 180 acres of land.
Austin and sixteen other men were killed 30 October 1838 while guarding Haun's grist mill to keep the mob from burning it. These men were put in a dry well and covered with stray and dirt to cover their bodies. The mob was so bad they did not dare to attempt to give them a proper burial.
After the death of Austin Hammer, his wife took her family of six children and went to Illinois. Their outfit consisted of a blind horse and a light wagon. Their baby, Julia, and the small boy, Austin were the only ones to ride. Little Austin was sick. Only two of the family had shoes. The others tied their feet up in rags and made the journey of two hundred miles in the latter part of November and December of 1838.
Austin embraced the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was baptized in 1835, in Henry County, Indiana.
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Son of John Hammer and Nancy York
Married Nancy Jane Elston, 26 Dec 1826, Wayne County, Kentucky
Children: Nancy Jane Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Austin Hammer, John Austin Hammer, Rebecca Ann Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Julia Ann Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Josiah Hammer
Location: on the north bank of Shoal Creek, in what is now Fairview Township.
The number killed and mortally wounded in this wanton slaughter at Haun's Mill was eighteen or nineteen, whose names as far as I recollect were as follows: Thomas McBride, Levi N. Merrick, Elias Benner, Josiah Fuller, Benjamin Lewis, Alexander Campbell, Warren Smith, Sardius Smith, George S. Richards, Mr. William Napier, Augustine Harmer, Simon Cox, Mr. [Hiram] Abbott, John York, Charles Merrick, (a boy eight or nine nears old), [John Lee, John Byers], and three or four others, whose names I do not recollect, as they were strangers, to me.
Among the wounded who recovered were Isaac Laney, Nathan K. Knight, Mr. [William] Yokum, two brothers by the name of [Jacob and George] Myers, Tarlton Lewis, Mr. [Jacob] Haun, and several others, [Jacob Foutz, Jacob Potts, Charles Jimison, John Walker, Alma Smith, aged about nine years]. Miss Mary Stedwell, while fleeing, was shot through the hand, and, fainting, fell over a log, into which they shot upwards of twenty balls.
Written by Amanda Smith. Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. (History of the Church, 3:323-325)
Lyman Littlefield, Reminiscences of Latter-Day Saints, Logan, Utah: The Utah Journal Co., 1888, Chapter V, p. 66-76.
Austin Hammer, son of John and Nancy York Hammer was born 6 May 1804 in South Carolina. He married Nancy Elston, 7 September 1826 in Wayne County Kentucky; a daughter of Josiah Elston and Rebecca Lewis. Soon after their marriage they moved to Ohio, where they lived three years. They then moved to Henry County, Indiana. After five years they moved to Shole Creek, Caldwell County, Missouri; where they had title to 180 acres of land.
Austin and sixteen other men were killed 30 October 1838 while guarding Haun's grist mill to keep the mob from burning it. These men were put in a dry well and covered with stray and dirt to cover their bodies. The mob was so bad they did not dare to attempt to give them a proper burial.
After the death of Austin Hammer, his wife took her family of six children and went to Illinois. Their outfit consisted of a blind horse and a light wagon. Their baby, Julia, and the small boy, Austin were the only ones to ride. Little Austin was sick. Only two of the family had shoes. The others tied their feet up in rags and made the journey of two hundred miles in the latter part of November and December of 1838.
Austin embraced the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was baptized in 1835, in Henry County, Indiana.
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Married Nancy Jane Elston, 26 Dec 1826, Wayne County, Kentucky
Children: Nancy Jane Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Austin Hammer, John Austin Hammer, Rebecca Ann Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Julia Ann Hammer, Isaiah Hammer, Josiah Hammer
Location: on the north bank of Shoal Creek, in what is now Fairview Township.
The number killed and mortally wounded in this wanton slaughter at Haun's Mill was eighteen or nineteen, whose names as far as I recollect were as follows: Thomas McBride, Levi N. Merrick, Elias Benner, Josiah Fuller, Benjamin Lewis, Alexander Campbell, Warren Smith, Sardius Smith, George S. Richards, Mr. William Napier, Augustine Harmer, Simon Cox, Mr. [Hiram] Abbott, John York, Charles Merrick, (a boy eight or nine nears old), [John Lee, John Byers], and three or four others, whose names I do not recollect, as they were strangers, to me.
Among the wounded who recovered were Isaac Laney, Nathan K. Knight, Mr. [William] Yokum, two brothers by the name of [Jacob and George] Myers, Tarlton Lewis, Mr. [Jacob] Haun, and several others, [Jacob Foutz, Jacob Potts, Charles Jimison, John Walker, Alma Smith, aged about nine years]. Miss Mary Stedwell, while fleeing, was shot through the hand, and, fainting, fell over a log, into which they shot upwards of twenty balls.
Written by Amanda Smith. Quincy, Adams County, Illinois. (History of the Church, 3:323-325)
Lyman Littlefield, Reminiscences of Latter-Day Saints, Logan, Utah: The Utah Journal Co., 1888, Chapter V, p. 66-76.
Austin Hammer, son of John and Nancy York Hammer was born 6 May 1804 in South Carolina. He married Nancy Elston, 7 September 1826 in Wayne County Kentucky; a daughter of Josiah Elston and Rebecca Lewis. Soon after their marriage they moved to Ohio, where they lived three years. They then moved to Henry County, Indiana. After five years they moved to Shole Creek, Caldwell County, Missouri; where they had title to 180 acres of land.
Austin and sixteen other men were killed 30 October 1838 while guarding Haun's grist mill to keep the mob from burning it. These men were put in a dry well and covered with stray and dirt to cover their bodies. The mob was so bad they did not dare to attempt to give them a proper burial.
After the death of Austin Hammer, his wife took her family of six children and went to Illinois. Their outfit consisted of a blind horse and a light wagon. Their baby, Julia, and the small boy, Austin were the only ones to ride. Little Austin was sick. Only two of the family had shoes. The others tied their feet up in rags and made the journey of two hundred miles in the latter part of November and December of 1838.
Austin embraced the gospel of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was baptized in 1835, in Henry County, Indiana.
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