Job Hammond, born in Richmond or Fairfax Co., Virginia on Jan. 31, 1750. He was married in Bute Co., North Carolina on Dec. 22, 1775 to Lucy Howard. They were both of St. John's Parish. Lucy Howard was the daughter of John Howard and Lucy Davis. Job and his wife Lucy lived in Rutherford Co. North Carolina and later moved to Elbert Co., Georgia and lived near old Petersburh, on the Savannah River. Job Hammond died in Elbert Co., Georgia on November 10, 1822 and his wife died eleven years (1833) after his death. The graves are unmarked. Job Hammond died intestate with Lucy Hammond as his Administratrix. Lucy Hammond died in Anderson Co., South Carolina and her will is recorded November 18, 1833.1672

[In contrast to the foregoing quote, the grave at least of Lucy Hammond is marked (see note and photo attached to Lucy’s record).]

Abstracted from Hammonds in Colonial Virginia1673

Many of the new settlers in Elbert County, Georgia, were from Virginia, where Job Hammond was born. One of his neighbors, Middleton Woods, was from Franklin County, Virginia. Others came from North Carolina. It was a typical pattern of migration for the time, as the new nation's most populous state, Virginia, began to disgorge citizens who could not find land to farm, or trades to pursue, in the Tidewater region and sought opportunities in the Piedmont of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

Job appears to have established a good life for his large family of nine children. The youngest, Herbert, was born in 1797. Job and Lucy Hammond were approximately 47 years old when Herbert was born.

Job, his parents and siblings appear to have kept in touch as they spread out to the fringes of Carolina frontier. The surviving members were together in 1807 in the Camden district, after old Samuel died there. Samuel's widow Mary, Rawleigh, Samuel Jr., Job, and Lewis Collins (husband of Charlotte Hammond) all signed a document on February 21, 1807 agreeing to go ahead and execute the terms of the dead patriarch's will to give certain slaves to his children. This even may have set the stage for Samuel Jr.'s migration to Alabama. It may also have been the last time they were all together at the same time. There is no documentation to this idea, but Samuel may have left the Camden District because he had accumulated less land and wealth than his brother Rawleigh. The deep south territories were opening up for settlement and land would have been cheap or even free to people who would settle and cultivate it. Job had already achieved some status as a planter in Georgia. Samuel might have stopped over for a while at his brother's plantation on the Savannah River. And other people looking for opportunities on the western frontier might have joined Samuel when he continued his journey to Alabama. Those fellow travelers might have included Samuel's niece Elizabeth, daughter of his brother Job Hammond, and her husband Matthew Brewer. Alternatively, the Hammond relatives might have traveled separately, one following the other. But they all ended up in Alabama.

When Job died in 1822, his estate probate records show evidence of a working plantation on the banks of the Savannah River. The records list such items essential to frontier life as log chains, various types of axes, a grind stone, spinning wheels, a loom, various saws, knives, grubbing hoes, shoemaker's tools, a cotton gin, shotguns, walnut furniture, 24 hogs, two goats, 19 cattle, 12 geese, two horses, and some chickens.1674

According to the estate records in Elbert County, Ga., Job Hammond's personal property was sold for $2,019 ($27,988, inflation-adjusted for the year 2000). The two most valuable items by far on the inventory: "sale of one negroe man Peter," $350; and "sale of one negroe boy Nead," $495. This document shows the importance of slavery in capital accumulation by white citizens prior to the Civil War: two negro slaves represented 42 percent of the value of the personal property of the owner of a prime 286-acre plantation bordering on the Savannah River. The plantation was purchased from the estate by son Alfred Hammond for just $125.1674

Lucy Hammond. Son: Herbert Hammond. Exor: Herbert Hammond. Wits: Matthew Gambrell, John Willingham, William B. Willingham. Date: 30 Aug. 1832. Probate: 18 Nov. 1833. Bk A p. 488, Roll 329. Anderson Co, SC.1675

Lucy Hammond is buried in the Hammond Family Cemetery in Anderson Co SC, alongside two of her sons, Dudley and Samuel Jenkins Hammond. In addition, there is a grave that may be Job (John?) Hammond. Following is from the researcher who indexed this cemetery and has described in online, Herb Hendricks:1676

CEMETERY LOCATION:

3 miles E of Anderson. Latitude N 34 30.497 x Longitude W 82 36.063

CEMETERY HISTORY:

I was raised in the Lebanon Community near the town of Pendleton of Anderson County, SC.

On a small rise across from the old John P Major later Nimrod T Smith home, now gone, was a large two story old southern style home with a wrap around porch. It was called the Hammond place. I was told at some time in my life that the Hammond's built the old home.

There was a barn to the rear of the home with numerous out buildings. Across the road was another barn and pasture and to the left of the barn was a blacksmith shop. All of this is gone today. Today the pasture is a large grove of cedar trees. There were numerous oaks in the yard of the old home and to the left facing the home site were numerous old pecan trees. Today only one oak and about 3 pecan trees remain.

The home burned in the 1970s and there is a nursery there now. A Byron Welborn owned the home site before it was sold by his daughters. One of his daughters still lives at the Byron Welborn home place on the Liberty-Anderson Highway about a mile north toward Liberty from the old Lebanon Baptist Church. I don't know if any Hammond's are buried there. Keyes Gentry, lives on Gentry Rd., is the caretaker of the Lebanon Baptist Church Plat Book. He can probably tell you if there is a Hammond buried there or look up Lebanon Baptist Church in one of the Anderson County Cemetery Books.

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TOMBSTONE TRANSCRIPTION NOTES:

a. = age at death
b. = date-of-birth
d. = date-of-death
h. = husband
m. = married
p. = parents
w. = wife

HAMMOND, Dudley, b. 1-jan-1776, d. 25-aug-1812
HAMMOND, John, d. 1822, w. lucy
HAMMOND, Lucy, b. c1749, d. 14-nov-1833, a. 84
HAMMOND, Samuel J., b. 8-mar-`785 d. 19-jul-1856, w. nancy