Re: WILLIAM HAMMON AND ELIZA ANN SMITH
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Re: WILLIAM HAMMON AND ELIZA ANN SMITH
John Hammon 5/28/08
Hi John,
Pleasant Valley Cemetery, at Sheffield Mining Camp, Arcadia, Crawford.
If you are in Arcadia, drive west on 710th Avenue for about a mile and turn south on North 250th Street.It's an unpaved, once paved, gravel road heading south. About a mile south on the right is Sheffield, a mining camp from the olden days.Right there on the corner of east 700th Avenue and North 250th Street is Pleasant Valley Cemetery.I have photos.Contact me off line.
Continue south on North 250th Street and pass through Gross, where Bessie Hammon lived when she married Jesse Ray, August 9, 1917. Continue south until the road dead ends (comes to a T-intersection. This is the location of the old mining camp known as Red Onion.Look straight ahead into the field and visualize a farm house and barn, a big apple tree.The house was torn down by the new owner, perhaps Bill Swezy, after the death of William and Emma Hammon in 1957.Bessie is the granddaughter of William and Eliza.Her parents are William and Emma.They all lived on the farm at Red Onion.Bessie is my Grandmother.
I have a lot of history on this family.I have been to the farm many times before 1957.Lots of memories.Can't replace photos to tell a story...I share.
Charles William Ray, Jr.
I was named after my my dad and two great grandfathers, Charles Ray and William Hammon.