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About Benjamin Janeway Hammer
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Birth: 1840 - Jefferson Co., TN -
Death: July 13, 1870 (30) -Jasper Co. IA
BENJAMIN JANEWAY HAMMER, b. 1840; d. Dec. 1870; on Nov. 25 1860 in Jefferson County, Tennessee m. DIANNA DARTHULA ANDERSON, b. March 1, 1841, d. Oct. 19, 1916. After Benjamin died she was married to Elisha Hammer, 1837-1915, son of Henry Hammer and Frances Perkins (see page 190). She and Elisha are buried in Hazelwood Cemetery, Grinnell, Iowa.
Notes for BENJAMIN JANEWAY HAMMER:
Burial: Center Friends Cemetery, Jasper County, Iowa.
Nicknames: Benny, B.J.
Occupation: Teacher
In 1846, when Benjamin would have been just six years old, his father Seth and much of the Hammer family moved to Iowa. Benny was left behind in Tennessee with his maternal grandfather and namesake, Benjamin Janeway, "against his father's wishes," according to Thomas Jefferson Hammer's 1917 book Biography of Seth Hammer. Benny's mother Elizabeth Janeway Hammer had died the year he was born, perhaps in childbirth; I have no record of the cause. Benjamin visited Iowa in 1857 and was reunited with his father. Thomas wrote, “Brother Benny then stood six feet tall and, considering my small stature, I thought him a ‘big man’, though he was only seventeen at the time.”
Later in the same book Thomas recorded, “My brother B.J. (Benny)… secured his education at an academy in Tennessee. In mathematics he had taken up algebra and trigonometry, probably with a view of following the engineering profession, and also had given some attention to the languages.
“He was in Tennessee when the Civil War burst upon the South as the result of her supreme folly, and at the first reasonably safe opportunity, escaped with his wife and her young sister, coming to Iowa early in 1864. I distinctly remember the winter term at the “little brick” was in session and the teacher was “Sis” Guthrie.
“Some time after his arrival at Hammer Grove, perhaps a year or so, Benny was appointed teacher of our school, where his fitness as an instructor of the youth was quickly and satisfactorily demonstrated. Benny’s government had that quality of kindly firmness, which at once gained the good will of the school, and his method of instruction drew out the best in the pupil. I do not remember ever having asked Benny a question, pertaining to the studies, he could not answer, or mentioning any historical subject with which he was not, in some degree familiar.
“During the series of meetings, conducted by the Friends at Center, in the winter of 1868-9, Nathan Ballard, leader, Benny publicly acknowledged the faith he believed arid his subsequent life, though short, was a living testimony of the sincerity of his profession.
“Not being possessed of robust health, the confining work of the school-room and the severity of the climate, to which he was not native, he succumbed to the ailment common to that latitude and passed away in December, 1870, in his thirty-first year.”
Marriage record of Benjamin Hammer and Darthula Anderson:
Name Benjamin Hammer
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 25 Nov 1860
Event Place , Jefferson, Tennessee, United States
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Spouse's Name Darthula Anderson
Spouse's Gender Female
Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950
GS Film Number 000968301
Digital Folder Number 007621533
Citing this Record: "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8YJ-NZC : 21 December 2016), Benjamin Hammer and Darthula Anderson, 25 Nov 1860; citing , Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 968,301.
Marriage record of Benjamin Hammer and Darthula Anderson:
Name Darthula Anderson
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 25 Nov 1860
Event Place Jefferson, Tennessee, United States
Gender Female
Spouse's Name Benjamin Hammer
Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002
Page 188
Citing this Record: "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VND6-CWR : 4 December 2014), Benjamin Hammer and Darthula Anderson, 25 Nov 1860; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 188, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
1870 Census
Name, Sex, Age, Birthplace, Occupation:
Benjamin Hammer/Hamnor M 30 Tennessee; Farmer
Diana D Hammer/Hamnor F 28 Virginia; Keeping House
John Armer M 18 Ireland; Farm laborer
Event Place Kellog Township, Newton post office, Jasper County, Iowa, United States
United States Census, 1870
Household ID 27
Line Number 21
Affiliate Name The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number M593
GS Film number 000545897
Digital Folder Number 004263629
Image Number 00247
Citing this Record: "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDVH-1Y7 : 12 April 2016), Benjamin Hamnor, Iowa, United States; citing p. 4, family 27, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,897.
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Benjamin Janeway Hammer's Timeline
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1840
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Jefferson Co., TN
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1870
Age 30
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Jasper Co. IA
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Center Friends Cemetery, Jasper County, Iowa
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