Edom & Martha Jane Smith Hammontree
Edom was born July 1817 in Blount County, Tennessee, the son of William Hammontree and Jane Curtis. He died after 1900 in Columbia County, Arkansas. Martha Jane Smith was born April 1826 in Grainger County, Tennessee, the daughter of Archelus Smith and Martha Warrick. She died aft. 1900 in Columbia County, Ark. They married January 20, 1842 in Greene County, Missouri.
Their children:
Polly Ann Hammontree
William Archelus Hammontree
Eliza Jane Hammontree
Sarah Isabel Hammontree
Martha Melinda Caledonia Hammontree
Margaret Mahulda Hammontree
Robert P. Hammontree
Rebecca Alabama Hammontree
Nancy Elizabeth Hammontree
Lorinda Virginia Hammontree
Cynthia Luellen Hammontree
Laura L. Hammontree
Selina Eveline Hammontree
William Archelus, Nancy Elizabeth, and Cynthia Luellen all lived and died in Claiborne Parish and have many descendants still living here.
William Archelus married Elizabeth Jane Lane. Their children: Mary Eliza, Robert Alexander (died in Marsalis,
Claiborne Parish), James Lafayette, Martha Malinda, Laura J., Floyd Bell (died in Homer, Claiborne Parish), Willie Edom, Margaret, and Dock Hammontree.
Nancy Elizabeth Hammontree married James S. Tipton. Their children: George E., Marshal Hamp, Lucy Lee, Tennessee L. Tipton (married Adolphus A. Abercrombie b. Athens), Alfonso, Nettie O., Jessie May, James M., and Clinton.
Cynthia Luellen Hammontree married Thomas Jefferson Wallace. Their children: Eveline (m. Robert Peterson), Ella M.A., Jessie Lou, Leila Ann (m. Lafayette B. Pizley), William Edom, Monroe (m. Willie Beatrice Carter), Emma (m. John William Carter), Martina (m. (2) W.M. Dean).
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(C) May 2000