Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth
Sarah Elizabeth Hammond is NOT Sarah Elizabeth Hanford (MPQS-3V1), who married a man named Hiram Olmstead in New York. Sarah's parents are also in question. Please review your work carefully before making changes to Sarah Elizabeth Hammond to be sure you have the correct information. If you have sources for your information – they are very much welcomed as we have few records of her life. Sarah reported her birth year as 1830. However, Seth Hammond (L5K1-3QL) and Elizabeth Randall (KP34-TBH), were too old to have children in 1830. Eleven children were born to this couple. Their tenth child was born in 1818, as reported on his marriage record. If this Sarah was their eleventh, it is possible that she was born in 1820, rather than 1830, but more research is needed to confirm this theory. Sarah Elizabeth Hammond was said to have been born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, although she does not come up in any town or county records. This is unusual because the town records were very thorough and have been digitized and are widely available. The book "A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hammond of London, England, and His Wife Elizabeth Penn, Through Their Son Benjamin of Sandwich and Rochester, Mass., 1600-1894" states that Seth and Elizabeth's youngest daughter "Sally" left home at 16 and moved west "with the Mormons." This is strong evidence that their Sally was our Sarah. However, the age discrepancy is still an issue. Sarah came across the plains in the Hodgett Wagon Company, behind the Willie and Martin Handcart Company. A rescue party from Salt Lake reached them while she and the group were huddled at Devil's Gate. Hiram Monroe Olmstead was in the rescue party and likely met Sarah there. According to family story, she married Hiram in Provo, Utah, Utah in 1857. They had their first baby, Sarah Jane, in Provo in 1858. Their daughter Mary Elizabeth was born in Riverdale, Utah in 1861. And their last child Hyrum Monroe was born in 1864, also in Riverdale. She is NOT the daughter of Levi and Cynthia Hanford in Walton, New York. Sarah Elizabeth Hanford married a Hiram Olmstead from New York and they remained in Walton, New York until their deaths in 1917 and 1896 respectively. The Hanfords and the New York Olmsteads are very well researched, and many books have been written about their long heritage in this country, specifically in New York. They are not the same people.
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- Population schedules for portions of the 1880 census for Utah
- Selected pension application files relating to the Mormon Battalion, Mexican War, 1846-1848.
- Sarah Elizabeth Hammond Olmstead, "Find A Grave Index"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
1841
EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: Josiah Nelson BIRTH 1841 Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA DEATH 1841 (aged less–than 1 year) Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA BURIAL Ogden City Cemetery Ogden, Weber County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID 240526232 · View Source
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English, Old French personal name Ha(i)mon, the oblique case form of the ancient Germanic Ha(i)mo, a short form of various compound names beginning with haim ‘home’. It frequently developed excrescent -d, giving Hamond, Haimund, and Hawmond. Alternatively, the name could derive from the Middle English personal name Hamund (Old Norse Hámundr, composed of the elements hár ‘high’ + mund ‘protection’), which may have been used in Normandy and in 12th-century eastern England, but the former explanation is more likely. The surname was sometimes confused with Almond and Ammon .
English: in the Bradford area of Yorkshire, the name is a shortened form of Ormondroyd, formerly Hamondesrode, from a lost place in Birstall (Yorkshire), named with the Middle English (Old French) personal name Hamon (1 above) + Middle English roid, a southern Yorkshire pronunciation of Old English rod ‘clearing’.
Irish: generally an importation from England, but occasionally an adopted name for Mac Ámoinn, see McCammon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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