Allen Hamm

✦ direct ancestor — my children's 4×-great-grandfather · Jarrell line, the Woodall–Ramsay side — their mother's people

Marriage & children

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

AUDITED 12 Oct 2026 - ALLEN HAMM (about 1845 - 1911), farmer, of Jefferson County, Georgia. The records read so far spell the name Ham; the tree uses Hamm, with Ham kept as an alternate name. In the 1880 census, District 85, sheet 280C (read on the image, K1018), he is Allen Ham, 35, with Isabelle, 37, Wife, and five children, the eldest Annie, 12. His daughter's obituary, Macon Telegraph 12 Jan 1949 (K1016), calls her "the daughter of the late Allen Ham and Mrs. Isabelle Hall Ham". The Find a Grave index gives an Allen P. Hamm, 1845-1911, which fits his age; the memorial has not been opened. Only [3421] Annie is attached as his child in this tree. His parents are unknown.

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