Jesse Franklin Hammon

Birth Date

1821-11-19

Death Date

1893-12-22

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman. Son of John Hammon and Mildred Ann Morgan Hammon. Married to Martha Ann Paget Hammon in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on March 20, 1842. Father of Virginia Hammon, Charles Hammon, Edward Hammon, and Fannie Hammon. Ship carpenter in Jefferson County in 1850. Policeman in Louisville in 1859. Served in Thurston’s Guards (U.S.A.) as a captain from September 17, 1862, to September 28, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 1, p. 135B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 188B.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 839.
Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Kentucky Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, Ky, Hammon, National 59339, State 780.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 272.
Louisville City Directory and Business Mirror for 1858-1858 (Louisville: Hurd & Burrows, 1859), 312.
”Familiar Figure Gone.” The Courier-Journal. (Louisville, KY). Dec. 23, 1893.

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