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Subject: Re: Craig Cemetery general information
Date: 29 Jul 2005 14:25:14 -0600
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Lou:
You are certainly welcome for the information. I have included below the passage from Edward Hammett's will concering the land in Mississippi. Susan Tyler was the wife of James Hoge Tyler who was Governor of Virginia from 1897 to 1902. I also included information about Edward's brother William Henry Hammett that I copied from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Since the Hammett's had a Mississippi connection I thought that this might be part of the answer to the mystery surrounding James Brown. I received an email from someone else some time ago about James Brown but I have not been able to find it. If I come across it, I will send the contact information to you. She may have found some answers.
Regards,
Susan Bromm
"I devise to my son John Radford Hammet and my daughter Susan Tyler and their lawful issue respectively all my lands in the state of Mississippi consisting of The Lammemore Farm in Washington County and the Issaquena land in the county of Issaquena, said lands to be equally divided between my said son and daughter." (Montgomery County Virginia Will Book 10, page 492 on microfilm at the Library of Virginia)
William Henry Hammet, brother of Edward Hammet, was a Representative from Mississippi; born March 25, 1799, in Don Manway, County Cork, Ireland; studied theology; chaplain of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville 1832-1834 and of the State house of delegates; moved to Princeton, Miss.; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eight Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1845); died July 9, 1861, in Washington County, Mississippi. (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress). He is entombed at Lammore Plantation, Washington County, Mississippi. (Washington County, Mississippi website).
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