![]() Frank lived in this neighborhood during the great Chicago fire of 1860, which ran from Chicago all the way across the state of Michigan. He made an excellent income from selling partridges and other game birds to hotels besides his income from the skins of animals he caught in the woods. At the age of 14 he moved to the woods 8 miles north of Elsie to hunt and trap, that was the spring of 1860. Franklin went to school 3 miles south of Elsie, his oldest sister was his teacher for part of his schooling. The 30 covered wagons started west in 1854 and part of the wagons stopped in Michigan and the rest went on to Minnesota.įranklin's parents settled in Laingsburg, Shiawassee County, Michigan, but later moved to a farm 3 ½ miles south of Elsie, in Clinton County, Michigan. This info pertains only to Emeline, Franklin, and Adelaide Hammond, the children of Oliver Hammond and Rhoda Thompson.įranklin moved to Bradford, PA when he was three years old, and later, in 1854 the family traveled back to Olean, NY to join up with the covered wagon caravan that was gathering to move west. Since all three children were born before this they were not born in Michigan, but most likely in Bradford, PA. ![]() In the era of 1950 Oliver Hammond of Battle Creek, MI was doing research on the Hammond family and his research shows the family as living in Bradford, PA., then traveling to Olean, in Cattaraugus County, New York in 1854 where he joined a wagon train heading west to Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. ![]() Louis, Gratiot County, Michigan, the last being born in 1853. The Hammond history, by Frederick Stam Hammond, lists the 3 children as born in St. Buried: After 30 June 1930, Elsie, Clinton, Michigan, United States. ![]() Marriage (1): Lavina FULLER on 1 March 1890 in Ashley, Gratiot, Michigan, United States.Born:, , Steuben, New York, United States. ![]()
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