OCCUPATION: John Alvin Flynn was a self-employed roofing contractor.
OCCUPATION: John Alvin Flynn was a self-employed roofing contractor.
OCCUPATION: John Alvin Flynn was a self-employed roofing contractor.
RESEARCH: David Henry Hamp (H31) was born in 1843 in Ohio. On 16 Aug 1862 he enlisted at Seville, Gratiot, County, Michigan, in Company D, 26th Infantry for service with the Union Army in the Civil War. He died of typhoid and pneumonia on 28 Feb 1863 at Alexandrai, Virginia and is buried there in the militray cemetery in grave #755. Assuming the military record is correct, there is an error in the handwritten Gratiot County marriage record book, page 155, for it shows him being married to Mary E. Shong on 16 Aug 1863, eight months after he died. This probably should read 1862 which would be the same day he enlisted, but prior to his muster on 15 Sep 1862. So far is known, there are no children of this union. Gratiot County records list a Mary Eleen Hamp of Seville Township marrying Aaron Welch in New Haven Township on 5 Dec 1865. This is presumed to be the widow of David Henry Hamp. The Gratiot County newspaper (Herald) of 17 Jan 1890 reports her death at age 46 and that she lived in Ewell, Michigan. No other particulars.
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David Henry HAMP
Sex: M
Event(s):
Misc: Abt. 1843
Ohio
Parents:
Father: David HAMP
Mother: Emaline WOODFORD
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RESEARCH: Napoleon Bonaparte Hamp (H32) was born 25 Feb 1844 in Ohio. On 1 Feb 1862 he enlisted in Company c of the 8th Infantry for service with the Union Army in the Civil War. His age is shown as 19 but he was not quite 18. He was wounded in action, on 1 Sep 1862 and was discharged for disability at Annapolis, Maryland in Feb 1863. He returned to Elm Hall, Michigan, and was married by the Rev Strayer, United Brethren minister, to Mary J. Hickman, the daughter of Zachariah and Rachel Hickman. He enlisted again on 29 Feb 1864 at Corunna in Shiawassee County, Michigan, still entering his age as 19 (now he was 20). In June near Petersburg, Virginia, he was again wounded and six months later was transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps and finally discharged at Chester, Pennsylvania on 15 Sep 1865.
Three children were born to Napoleon and Mary in Elm Hall. Then around 1870, Napoleon moved his family to Nebraska. There is a story in the 1968 issue of "Old West" magazine that speaks of the family. The article, reprinted from a privately printed book, tells the story of the travel by covered wagon of the Elm Hall, Michigan, families of Joseph and Mary Crockford and ZEllen (Crockford) Canaga from Michigan to Oregon, A couple of paragraphs of the story are devoted to the family stopping at a sod shanty on the Platte River in Nebraska on 15 Apr 1872 to seek shelter in a severe snow storm. Their hosts inquired where they were from and on learning it was Elm Hall, Michigan asked if they knew "Boney" Hamp. Ellen said "Land, yes, it was I who introduced him to Mary Hickman and they were married just four weeks later". The homesteader then told them that the Hamps lived just down the road a ways, so they stopped the next day and had breakfast with them. they found Napoleon, Mary and four children living in a dug-out in a bank. They had no chairs, just the beds to set on, but were real happy to see someone from "back home" and made the visitors welcome.
Around 1880 the family moved to Carroll County, Illinois, perhaps back to civilization because of Mary's health. At any rate she died 2 May 1883 of consumption and is buried at Savanna, Illinois.
There is a story in the family that Napoleon was married 30 or 35 times. It would seem this has been greatly exaggerated, but he was wed at least three times and there may be some that we don't know about. His Civil War Pension file included a death certificate for a wife named Annie, but from the date it would appear to be Mary, except the birthplace is shown as Massachusetts while Census records show that Mary was born in Ohio. No maiden name is shown so it is unknown if this is a series of errors by the Doctor or the person giving the information to him, or if it really does pertain to a wife otherwise unknown to us.
The second marriage that we are aware of took place in Ludington, Michigan, on 13 Mar 1886, when he married Mary Katie KERR, a girl from Denmark. One witness was Napoleon's eldest son, Francis E. Hamp (H323), then seventeen.
In 1895 on an Iowa State Census record, Napoleon and this Mary were shown living in Epworth, Iowa. His son, F.E. Hamp, now married, with a family of three, lived just a few houses on down the street. There were no known children of this marriage until a daughter was born in 1896 and then a son two years later. Another story is that Napoleon had sons who he named for brothers lost in the Civil War. None such have ever been found. Perhaps they were from this union and died as children which accounts for the ten year gap from the marriage to the first known child, or it may be that Napoleon went west again by himself and sent for Mary later. Whatever the circumstances, the marriage broke up soon after the two children were born and in the pension file there are many affidavits from friends and neighbours which pertain to his abandonment of this family without means of support. One of the affidavits is by a Mr. FORSYTHE, perhaps the same one Mary married later. It is unclear if Mary obtained any of the pension she was after, but the children did. However, the son, George Washington Hamp (H328) was placed in an orphanage until after Mary re-married. Though not disclosed in the pension records, the daughter was stolen away by Napoleon and raised by him and his last wife. We know of no other wives which is not to say there were none.
Napoleon died on 22 Nov 1910 in South Bend, Indiana when struck by a fast mail train at an unguarded crossing when walking home with a wife and small son. Newspaper records of this accident indicated the wife had just returned from a visit at her folks in Bridgeport, Michigan. A check of records there in Saginaw County disclosed that on 16 Jan 1903, Napoleon had married a young lady by the name of Nellie L. Pattee, daughter of John Pattee and Ruth FALES. Nellie was born about 1878 in Minnesota. Both she and Napoleon listed their residence at the time as Chicago, Illinois. Napoleon gave his age as 38 (really almost 59) and Nellie gave hers as 25. Also found recorded there was the birth of their daughter Nell G. Hamp (H32a) on 12 Dec 1905. The accident listed survivors as his wife and three small children. Much later it was learned that one of these, the small son present when Napoleon was killed, was Nellie's by a previous marriage, and the other was his daughter Maude (H327) from the marriage to Maty Katie Kerr.Napoleon was buried in Savanna, Illinois with arrangements made by Henry Bert Hamp (H322), Napoleon's son by his first wife. The funeral was unattended by his South Bend family who were still shaken from their narrow escape and witnessing the fatal accident. Obituaries in the Savanna papers mentioned only the survivors in the first family, leaving one to wonder if the two families were on friendly terms. It was learned later on, though, that a daughter, Nell (H32a) mentioned above, was taken and raised for a time by a half brother, Henry Bert Hamp (H322).
Aside from the numerous marriages attributed to him, a couple of other tales concerning Napoleon are one, that one war wound was a hole through his hand or wrist which healed leaving a hole all the way through and he would draw a silk handkerchief through this to clean it. On finding photos of Jacob Hamp (Jr) (H1) that show one hand always gloved or mittened, it was thought thta perhaps the story of the hole through the hand had over the years been associated with the wrong hamp. However, in a personal visit with Napoleon's daughter, Maude (H327) in Oct 1984, it was confirmed that indeed Napoleon did have a hole through his hand. The reason for the glove on the hand of Jacob Jr. is unknown.
The other tale says that at one of his marriages in Elm Hall, Michigan, he stepped out after the ceremony to buy cigars and never came back! But the only Elm Hall marriage we know of was to Mary Hickman and that one evidently lasted until she died.
The article concerning his death stated that before moving to South Bend, Indiana, he had lived for several years in Plymouth, Indiana. His occupation has been listed variously as laborer, druggist, carpenter, and painter. According to his daughter Maude (H327), the latter was his chief source of income.
RESEARCH: Josephine was born c 1865 in Michigan. On the 1880 Censusshe is shown as working as a servant in Savanna, Illinois. In 1910 in her father's obituary she is still listed as "Miss". It is unknown if she ever married.
RESEARCH: Napoleon Bonaparte Hamp (H32) was born 25 Feb 1844 in Ohio. On 1 Feb 1862 he enlisted in Company c of the 8th Infantry for service with the Union Army in the Civil War. His age is shown as 19 but he was not quite 18. He was wounded in action, on 1 Sep 1862 and was discharged for disability at Annapolis, Maryland in Feb 1863. He returned to Elm Hall, Michigan, and was married by the Rev Strayer, United Brethren minister, to Mary J. Hickman, the daughter of Zachariah and Rachel Hickman. He enlisted again on 29 Feb 1864 at Corunna in Shiawassee County, Michigan, still entering his age as 19 (now he was 20). In June near Petersburg, Virginia, he was again wounded and six months later was transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps and finally discharged at Chester, Pennsylvania on 15 Sep 1865.
Three children were born to Napoleon and Mary in Elm Hall. Then around 1870, Napoleon moved his family to Nebraska. There is a story in the 1968 issue of "Old West" magazine that speaks of the family. The article, reprinted from a privately printed book, tells the story of the travel by covered wagon of the Elm Hall, Michigan, families of Joseph and Mary Crockford and ZEllen (Crockford) Canaga from Michigan to Oregon, A couple of paragraphs of the story are devoted to the family stopping at a sod shanty on the Platte River in Nebraska on 15 Apr 1872 to seek shelter in a severe snow storm. Their hosts inquired where they were from and on learning it was Elm Hall, Michigan asked if they knew "Boney" Hamp. Ellen said "Land, yes, it was I who introduced him to Mary Hickman and they were married just four weeks later". The homesteader then told them that the Hamps lived just down the road a ways, so they stopped the next day and had breakfast with them. they found Napoleon, Mary and four children living in a dug-out in a bank. They had no chairs, just the beds to set on, but were real happy to see someone from "back home" and made the visitors welcome.
Around 1880 the family moved to Carroll County, Illinois, perhaps back to civilization because of Mary's health. At any rate she died 2 May 1883 of consumption and is buried at Savanna, Illinois.
There is a story in the family that Napoleon was married 30 or 35 times. It would seem this has been greatly exaggerated, but he was wed at least three times and there may be some that we don't know about. His Civil War Pension file included a death certificate for a wife named Annie, but from the date it would appear to be Mary, except the birthplace is shown as Massachusetts while Census records show that Mary was born in Ohio. No maiden name is shown so it is unknown if this is a series of errors by the Doctor or the person giving the information to him, or if it really does pertain to a wife otherwise unknown to us.
The second marriage that we are aware of took place in Ludington, Michigan, on 13 Mar 1886, when he married Mary Katie KERR, a girl from Denmark. One witness was Napoleon's eldest son, Francis E. Hamp (H323), then seventeen.
In 1895 on an Iowa State Census record, Napoleon and this Mary were shown living in Epworth, Iowa. His son, F.E. Hamp, now married, with a family of three, lived just a few houses on down the street. There were no known children of this marriage until a daughter was born in 1896 and then a son two years later. Another story is that Napoleon had sons who he named for brothers lost in the Civil War. None such have ever been found. Perhaps they were from this union and died as children which accounts for the ten year gap from the marriage to the first known child, or it may be that Napoleon went west again by himself and sent for Mary later. Whatever the circumstances, the marriage broke up soon after the two children were born and in the pension file there are many affidavits from friends and neighbours which pertain to his abandonment of this family without means of support. One of the affidavits is by a Mr. FORSYTHE, perhaps the same one Mary married later. It is unclear if Mary obtained any of the pension she was after, but the children did. However, the son, George Washington Hamp (H328) was placed in an orphanage until after Mary re-married. Though not disclosed in the pension records, the daughter was stolen away by Napoleon and raised by him and his last wife. We know of no other wives which is not to say there were none.
Napoleon died on 22 Nov 1910 in South Bend, Indiana when struck by a fast mail train at an unguarded crossing when walking home with a wife and small son. Newspaper records of this accident indicated the wife had just returned from a visit at her folks in Bridgeport, Michigan. A check of records there in Saginaw County disclosed that on 16 Jan 1903, Napoleon had married a young lady by the name of Nellie L. Pattee, daughter of John Pattee and Ruth FALES. Nellie was born about 1878 in Minnesota. Both she and Napoleon listed their residence at the time as Chicago, Illinois. Napoleon gave his age as 38 (really almost 59) and Nellie gave hers as 25. Also found recorded there was the birth of their daughter Nell G. Hamp (H32a) on 12 Dec 1905. The accident listed survivors as his wife and three small children. Much later it was learned that one of these, the small son present when Napoleon was killed, was Nellie's by a previous marriage, and the other was his daughter Maude (H327) from the marriage to Maty Katie Kerr.Napoleon was buried in Savanna, Illinois with arrangements made by Henry Bert Hamp (H322), Napoleon's son by his first wife. The funeral was unattended by his South Bend family who were still shaken from their narrow escape and witnessing the fatal accident. Obituaries in the Savanna papers mentioned only the survivors in the first family, leaving one to wonder if the two families were on friendly terms. It was learned later on, though, that a daughter, Nell (H32a) mentioned above, was taken and raised for a time by a half brother, Henry Bert Hamp (H322).
Aside from the numerous marriages attributed to him, a couple of other tales concerning Napoleon are one, that one war wound was a hole through his hand or wrist which healed leaving a hole all the way through and he would draw a silk handkerchief through this to clean it. On finding photos of Jacob Hamp (Jr) (H1) that show one hand always gloved or mittened, it was thought thta perhaps the story of the hole through the hand had over the years been associated with the wrong hamp. However, in a personal visit with Napoleon's daughter, Maude (H327) in Oct 1984, it was confirmed that indeed Napoleon did have a hole through his hand. The reason for the glove on the hand of Jacob Jr. is unknown.
The other tale says that at one of his marriages in Elm Hall, Michigan, he stepped out after the ceremony to buy cigars and never came back! But the only Elm Hall marriage we know of was to Mary Hickman and that one evidently lasted until she died.
The article concerning his death stated that before moving to South Bend, Indiana, he had lived for several years in Plymouth, Indiana. His occupation has been listed variously as laborer, druggist, carpenter, and painter. According to his daughter Maude (H327), the latter was his chief source of income.
OCCUPATION: George became a rancher in Idaho after his divorce, and lived near Moore, Idaho.
!ORPHANAGE: George was placed in an Iowa orphanage after his parents separated. He was there from 20 Feb 1900 to 10 May 1912. He was then placed with a family (J.F. Jones) in Brooklyn, Iowa. Six months later he returned to his mother and step-father in Le Mars, Iowa.
RESEARCH: Napoleon Bonaparte Hamp (H32) was born 25 Feb 1844 in Ohio. On 1 Feb 1862 he enlisted in Company c of the 8th Infantry for service with the Union Army in the Civil War. His age is shown as 19 but he was not quite 18. He was wounded in action, on 1 Sep 1862 and was discharged for disability at Annapolis, Maryland in Feb 1863. He returned to Elm Hall, Michigan, and was married by the Rev Strayer, United Brethren minister, to Mary J. Hickman, the daughter of Zachariah and Rachel Hickman. He enlisted again on 29 Feb 1864 at Corunna in Shiawassee County, Michigan, still entering his age as 19 (now he was 20). In June near Petersburg, Virginia, he was again wounded and six months later was transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps and finally discharged at Chester, Pennsylvania on 15 Sep 1865.
Three children were born to Napoleon and Mary in Elm Hall. Then around 1870, Napoleon moved his family to Nebraska. There is a story in the 1968 issue of "Old West" magazine that speaks of the family. The article, reprinted from a privately printed book, tells the story of the travel by covered wagon of the Elm Hall, Michigan, families of Joseph and Mary Crockford and ZEllen (Crockford) Canaga from Michigan to Oregon, A couple of paragraphs of the story are devoted to the family stopping at a sod shanty on the Platte River in Nebraska on 15 Apr 1872 to seek shelter in a severe snow storm. Their hosts inquired where they were from and on learning it was Elm Hall, Michigan asked if they knew "Boney" Hamp. Ellen said "Land, yes, it was I who introduced him to Mary Hickman and they were married just four weeks later". The homesteader then told them that the Hamps lived just down the road a ways, so they stopped the next day and had breakfast with them. they found Napoleon, Mary and four children living in a dug-out in a bank. They had no chairs, just the beds to set on, but were real happy to see someone from "back home" and made the visitors welcome.
Around 1880 the family moved to Carroll County, Illinois, perhaps back to civilization because of Mary's health. At any rate she died 2 May 1883 of consumption and is buried at Savanna, Illinois.
There is a story in the family that Napoleon was married 30 or 35 times. It would seem this has been greatly exaggerated, but he was wed at least three times and there may be some that we don't know about. His Civil War Pension file included a death certificate for a wife named Annie, but from the date it would appear to be Mary, except the birthplace is shown as Massachusetts while Census records show that Mary was born in Ohio. No maiden name is shown so it is unknown if this is a series of errors by the Doctor or the person giving the information to him, or if it really does pertain to a wife otherwise unknown to us.
The second marriage that we are aware of took place in Ludington, Michigan, on 13 Mar 1886, when he married Mary Katie KERR, a girl from Denmark. One witness was Napoleon's eldest son, Francis E. Hamp (H323), then seventeen.
In 1895 on an Iowa State Census record, Napoleon and this Mary were shown living in Epworth, Iowa. His son, F.E. Hamp, now married, with a family of three, lived just a few houses on down the street. There were no known children of this marriage until a daughter was born in 1896 and then a son two years later. Another story is that Napoleon had sons who he named for brothers lost in the Civil War. None such have ever been found. Perhaps they were from this union and died as children which accounts for the ten year gap from the marriage to the first known child, or it may be that Napoleon went west again by himself and sent for Mary later. Whatever the circumstances, the marriage broke up soon after the two children were born and in the pension file there are many affidavits from friends and neighbours which pertain to his abandonment of this family without means of support. One of the affidavits is by a Mr. FORSYTHE, perhaps the same one Mary married later. It is unclear if Mary obtained any of the pension she was after, but the children did. However, the son, George Washington Hamp (H328) was placed in an orphanage until after Mary re-married. Though not disclosed in the pension records, the daughter was stolen away by Napoleon and raised by him and his last wife. We know of no other wives which is not to say there were none.
Napoleon died on 22 Nov 1910 in South Bend, Indiana when struck by a fast mail train at an unguarded crossing when walking home with a wife and small son. Newspaper records of this accident indicated the wife had just returned from a visit at her folks in Bridgeport, Michigan. A check of records there in Saginaw County disclosed that on 16 Jan 1903, Napoleon had married a young lady by the name of Nellie L. Pattee, daughter of John Pattee and Ruth FALES. Nellie was born about 1878 in Minnesota. Both she and Napoleon listed their residence at the time as Chicago, Illinois. Napoleon gave his age as 38 (really almost 59) and Nellie gave hers as 25. Also found recorded there was the birth of their daughter Nell G. Hamp (H32a) on 12 Dec 1905. The accident listed survivors as his wife and three small children. Much later it was learned that one of these, the small son present when Napoleon was killed, was Nellie's by a previous marriage, and the other was his daughter Maude (H327) from the marriage to Maty Katie Kerr.Napoleon was buried in Savanna, Illinois with arrangements made by Henry Bert Hamp (H322), Napoleon's son by his first wife. The funeral was unattended by his South Bend family who were still shaken from their narrow escape and witnessing the fatal accident. Obituaries in the Savanna papers mentioned only the survivors in the first family, leaving one to wonder if the two families were on friendly terms. It was learned later on, though, that a daughter, Nell (H32a) mentioned above, was taken and raised for a time by a half brother, Henry Bert Hamp (H322).
Aside from the numerous marriages attributed to him, a couple of other tales concerning Napoleon are one, that one war wound was a hole through his hand or wrist which healed leaving a hole all the way through and he would draw a silk handkerchief through this to clean it. On finding photos of Jacob Hamp (Jr) (H1) that show one hand always gloved or mittened, it was thought thta perhaps the story of the hole through the hand had over the years been associated with the wrong hamp. However, in a personal visit with Napoleon's daughter, Maude (H327) in Oct 1984, it was confirmed that indeed Napoleon did have a hole through his hand. The reason for the glove on the hand of Jacob Jr. is unknown.
The other tale says that at one of his marriages in Elm Hall, Michigan, he stepped out after the ceremony to buy cigars and never came back! But the only Elm Hall marriage we know of was to Mary Hickman and that one evidently lasted until she died.
The article concerning his death stated that before moving to South Bend, Indiana, he had lived for several years in Plymouth, Indiana. His occupation has been listed variously as laborer, druggist, carpenter, and painter. According to his daughter Maude (H327), the latter was his chief source of income.
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