According
to Mary Ann Linton Morgan's
research notes, in the late 1700 between seven and
eight-hundred Hamiltons lived in Bracken County which was located about 30
miles from the Blue Lick Springs.
It is essential that we gather all of the identifying sources possible in
putting our John and Elizabeth Hamilton’s family together.
The
following biography of John Hamilton Ham included in an 1882 Nicholas County
History Volume identifies him as the son of John Hamilton’s daughter
Elizabeth Hamilton Ham and her husband Samuel.
JOHN
HAMILTON HAM, dealer in real estate, Carlisle, was born in McBride's
Run, Nicholas County, Ky., Dec. 22, 1821, to Samuel and Elizabeth
(Hamilton) Ham; he died in April 1837, at the age of fifty (see history
of M. K. Ham); she was a daughter of John and Elizabeth Hamilton, and
died at the age of fifty, in 1852; she was the mother of five children,
viz: Leann, wife of Thomas M. Mathews, residing in Orange County, Ind.;
John H., William W., Jacob A., married, died and left a wife and three
children (two sons and a daughter) in Orange County, Ind.; and Samuel W.,
also deceased; John H., the third child and subject of this sketch, began
his career in life as a farmer, and followed the same until a few years
since, when he engaged in the real estate business. He was married in
Carlisle, Nov. 9, 1848, to Elizabeth McCune, both in Nicholas county,
July 15, 1830, to John and Elizabeth (Mathers) McCune, natives of Nicholas
County; he born in 1796, she in 1806, to Thomas Mathers, born in 1759,
and Elizabeth, his wife, born in 1768; John McCune, a son of John, born
in 1762. Mr. Ham, by this marriage had three children, viz: R. Edgar,
born Nov. 17, 1849; Oscar, born Sept. 6, 1852, and Elizabeth, died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Ham are members of the Church at Carlisle, of
which he served as Deacon several years; he is neutral in politics. His
youngest son, Oscar, was married Oct. 28, 1879, to Miss Luella Kimbrough
(born to Joshua and Mary (Bowen) Kimbrough) May 14, 1857 (see history
of Mrs. M. C. Bell). After marriage he engaged in business with his
brother-in-law, Mr. H. C. Kimbrough, at the hotel and continued his stock
interests and trading. They are the owners of the famous trotting horse,
"Pegasus." In business, they are enterprising, energetic, and
are highly esteemed by the
people of the county.
Ham
Hamilton Mathews McCune Kimbrough Bowen Bell
= Orange-IN
REF: History
of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p.
749. [Nicholas
County] [Carlisle City and Precinct]
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