HAMILL

MARY NEWTON HAMILL, "Mamie," was born in April 1868 in Livingston, Alabama, and died on 20 November 1905,(1) in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. On 27 March 1890, at Dallas, Texas;(2) she married Richard Francis Moore (see Moore), who was born on 1 March 1861 in Mattoon, Illinois, and died on 6 May 1921(1) at Dallas, Texas. They are both buried in the Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, Texas. Mary was the daughter of

NEWTON JASPER HAMILL was born in 1839 and died in 1867 in Livingston, Alabama. On 6 September 1860 in Sumter County, Alabama, he married, as her first husband, Susan A. Porter (see Porter). Newton was a Professor at the Livingston Male Academy 1857-67, and later was also a dentist and owner of a plantation near Livingston, Alabama.(3-4)

Newton and Sue Hamill had four children: Frederick P.; Anna; Mary Newton (see above); and Robert Greer.

Newton Hamill was the son of

EDWARD JOSEPH HAMILL was born in 1818 in Glasgow, Scotland, and died on 19 December 1891 on a Louisville and Nashville train near Mt. Vernon, Indiana.(6) He is buried in Marshall, Illinois, which was the home of his youngest son. In 1838, in Hillabee, Talladega County, Alabama, he married Anne Jane Simmons who was born in Georgia in 1820 and is thought to have died near Birmingham, Alabama, some time after 1891. Anne Jane was the daughter of Col. H. F. Simmons of Hillabee, Talladega County (now Clayton County), Alabama, and his wife, Sara Burns.(5)

While Edward was still a child his parents came to New York City and it was here that he grew to manhood. He was educated for the Romanish Priesthood. When a young man, he went South and found employment as a cabinet maker in Columbus, Georgia. In an old-fashioned Methodist camp meeting, he was converted and later called to preach the Gospel. He joined the Methodist Church and was received into the Alabama Conference in 1842. Up until the beginning of the Civil War, he was "foremost among its members in influence and position."

Edward was sympathetic to the cause of the North during the War of the Rebellion and because of this, incurred much animosity. He was frequently assailed, was imprisoned, and several times was in peril of his life. Notwithstanding this hitter hostility from those who had once been his devoted friends and admirers, he persisted in denouncing secession and the Confederate cause, and when brought to trial in 1864 by his conference, upon charge of disloyalty to the Confederacy, he boldly declared his sentiments, and was saved from expulsion by the conference and rough military treatment by army officers, through the kindly intervention of Bishop McTyre, who was his close personal friend. He left the Alabama Conference in 1869.(6)

In 1871, he was admitted to the East Genesee Conference, later to the Missouri Conference, and in 1878, joined the Illinois Conference.

During his Southern pastorate, he served in Livingston, Alabama, in 1842-43, and held many other pastorates until he was appointed, in 1856, as Methodist Agent for the Eastern Alabama Male College at Auburn. In 1863-64, he served as a Missionary in the Confederate Army with Breckenridge's Corps and with Cheatham's Corps.(5)

The children of Rev. E. I. and Anne Jane Hamill were: (5) Newton J. (see above), born 1839, died in 1867, and married Sue A. Porter; N. N., born in 1841; Edward H., born in 1843 in Alabama; Howard Melanthom, born 10 August 1845, died 21 June 1915, and married, first, Gertrude Dillard, and, second, Ada L. Truman; N. N.; Felix Chalmers, born 17 January 1848, died 9 February 1898, and married Isabelle E. Hudson; Sarah Jane, born 9 December 1849 and died 2 January 1852; George G., born in 1852; Robert Emmett, born in 1856 and died in 1900; and Julia, born in 1858 and married a Gilespie.

Edward Joseph Hamill was the son of

JOHN HAMILL came to New York City around 1825-30 leaving from Belfast, Ireland. (5)

Ref:

1. Oakland Cemetery, Dallas. Texas,

2. Marriage License, Dallas County, Texas.

3. History of the Talbot Family in the United States.

4. Spratt's History of Livingston, Alabama,

5. Letters-Rev. F. S. Moseley, Eutaw, Alabama.

6. Journal of the Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1892.