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Annie Hamm
✦ direct ancestor — my children's 3×-great-grandmother
· Watkins line, the Woodall–Ramsay side
— their mother's people
Parents
Marriage & children
SpouseEben Tarver Watkins
Annie Belle Watkins (1889–1978)
Records behind this page
1880 U.S. census, population schedule, District 85, Jefferson County, Georgia, enumeration district 67, sheet 280C (NARA T9; image via FamilySearch)
1880 census, District 85 (ED 67), Jefferson Co., Ga., sheet 280C, dwelling/family 60, Allen Ham; FamilySearch 1:1:M8GC-1KF, image 324 of 809
[Read on the image 12 Oct 2026 (register K1018), in full for the household, parent-nativity columns included.] Allen Ham, 35, farmer; Isabelle, 37, Wife (her father born Ga., her mother born N.C.); Annie, 12, Daughter, laborer; Sarah, 9; Martha, 6; Charlie, 3; Vianna, 5/12, born January. Next dwelling: Patsy Hall, 78.
The Macon Telegraph (Macon, Georgia), Wednesday 12 January 1949, page 8: obituary, "Mrs. Eben Watkins" (image via Newspapers.com, image 826680236)
Macon Telegraph, 12 Jan 1949, p. 8, obituary of Mrs. Eben Watkins; Newspapers.com image 826680236
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[Read on the image 12 Oct 2026 (register K1016); the paragraph listing her sons ran past the crop and was not read.] Mrs. Eben Watkins, 81, died in a local hospital ... Monday ... formerly of Wadley ... home here ... with her daughter, Mrs. William Donovan, at 3448 Forsyth Road ... funeral ... Coleman's Chapel Methodist Church near Wadley ... a native of Jefferson County, the daughter of the late Allen Ham and Mrs. Isabelle Hall Ham, both of Jefferson County. Surviving besides Mrs. Donovan are three other daughters, Mrs. J. [F.] Jarrell, Moultrie; Miss Pearl Watkins, Washington; [and Mrs. A.] H. Few, Atlanta ...
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open. Many open with a line grading the parentage; what the grades mean.
Research note · 12 Oct 2026
PROOF CLASS: FATHER = DIRECT (Owen, 12 Oct 2026) - her obituary, Macon Telegraph 12 Jan 1949 p. 8: "the daughter of the late Allen Ham". Register K1016; the 1880 census (K1018) agrees.
PROOF CLASS: MOTHER = DIRECT (Owen, 12 Oct 2026) - her obituary, Macon Telegraph 12 Jan 1949 p. 8, names her mother as "Mrs. Isabelle Hall Ham". Register K1016; the 1880 census (K1018) agrees.
INFORMANT: the obituary names no reporting party; most likely the family, since it lists the survivors. Her parents had died in 1911 and 1905. The 1880 census of Allen Ham's household (K1018) was made by a different hand while all three were alive.
AUDITED 12 Oct 2026 - BOTH PARENTS ENTERED: Allen Hamm (about 1845 - 1911), farmer, and Isabella (Hall) Hamm (about 1843 - 1905), of Jefferson County, Georgia. The records spell the name Ham; the tree uses Hamm, as her own entry does. Annie was born 3 Jun 1867, married [3420] Eben Tarver Watkins, and died at Macon on 10 Jan 1949, aged 81.
THE EVIDENCE. (1) Her obituary in the Macon Telegraph, 12 Jan 1949, page 8, read on the image (K1016): "the daughter of the late Allen Ham and Mrs. Isabelle Hall Ham, both of Jefferson County". It names among her surviving daughters "Mrs. J. [F.] Jarrell, Moultrie", who is [136] Annie Belle Watkins Jarrell, so the obituary is of this Annie. The Augusta Chronicle of the same day, seen in the FamilySearch index only (K1017), names the same parents. It is most likely the same family notice and is not counted as a second witness. (2) The 1880 census, District 85, sheet 280C, read on the image (K1018): Allen Ham, 35, Isabelle, 37, Wife, and Annie, 12, Daughter. Her age fits a birth in 1867.
Living next door in 1880 was Patsy Hall, 78. She may have been Isabella's mother, but that has not been tested and she is not entered.
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