Francis Raleigh Hammond

  General Notes:

Francis Raleigh Hammond was a soldier of the War between the States serving four years most of which was in active duty. After the war, he returned to Heath Springs to his family, which consisted of a wife and a young son. While a young man about seventeen, he went to Florida to seek fortune and there in Hawhorne, he met his future wife, Miss Amanda Caroline Sanders, born October 31, 1842 and died April 8, 1917, the daughter of William Sanders. On January 17, 1858, they were married, she being just over the fifteenth year of her age and he only twenty. After marriage he returned with his new bride to live on the farm of his mother, Mrs. Mitilda Hammond. It is evident that the early years of this marriage was lived in a joint farming operation with his brother Peter Burford Hammond and his mother. Records indicate that Francis Raleigh Hammond began his own farming on land near the old Russell Place, shortly after he returned from the Civil War. He never attained a position higher than a small farmer, but many people of this day speak of his small stature, kind dispostion and affection for his family.

The following proof is offered that Francis Rawleigh, was the son of Francis Hammond and Matilda Brewer.

a. The Bible records of Samuel Burford Hammond, show the birth of Mary Melvina
Hammond, February 23, 1829. Her grave is found beside that of Matilda
Hammond in the same plot at Beaver Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Mrs.
Pearl Hammond Neely of Rock Hill, says "I remember only one sister of my
grandfather Frank Hammond and she was Aunt Molly Perry". Mary Melvinia
Hammond married Alexander Perry.

b. The census record of Kershaw County, South Carolina for the year 1850, shows
Matilda Hammond, aged 41 years as head of family, living with Samuel Hammond
aged 14 years and Francis Hammond aged 12.

c. Recored in the Clerk of Courts records in Lancaster, South Carolina:
"This indenture made the tenth day of April, 1872, between Francis R.
Hammond, of the county and State Aforesaid of the part and George C.
Crenshaw of the County and State, the second part. Witnessed:

That the party of the1st part for consideration of one hundred and forty
dollars to them in hand paid hath sold and by these presents doth grant
and convey to the said party of the 2nd part:
One sorrell mare, about four years old and a suckling colt, of the said mare,
now in their possession and at the plantation of Mrs. W. Hammond, near
Russell Place, toghter with all the estate and title and interest therein.

This grant is intended as a security for payment of the colt and hundred and
forty dollars (The purchase money of the colt and mare) with interest at the
rate of 7% per annum from November 10, 1872 on or before the 10th day of
November 1872, which when payment is duly mad will render the conveyance
void.

Witnessed: James Magill, P.B. Hammond, P.T. Twitty, F.R. Hammond

Francis married Amanda Caroline Sanders, daughter of William Sanders and Unknown, on 17 Jan 1858. (Amanda Caroline Sanders was born on 31 Oct 1842, died 8 Apy 1917 and was buried in Salem Cemetery, Heath Springs, SC.)