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Note: Mary Elizabeth Mays Hammond was the eldest daughter of Enoch Mays. When her husband, F M Hammond died in 1884 she served as the executor of his probate and was trustee of the money left behind for the children. She was involved in several court cases relating to this in Dallas County as the children came of age. She is not listed in the Dallas city directory for 1884/1885. After the death of her husband she ran a boarding house in downtown Dallas for a few years at 335 Ross Avenue between Orange and Masten Streets. At least two of her children, F M Hammond Jr who worked as a clerk for Goldsmith Bros. , and daughter Cora Hammond who worked as a Clerk for the Bradshaw Company lived with her. She is not listed in the Dallas city directory for 1888/89. This may be because she remarried or moved to Lancaster with her son who became a merchant there. Records indicate that a W G McClendon married Mrs. Mare E. Hammond in 1888, but it has not been verified that she was the person in question. If she married, it may have been of short duration, or her husband died, and there is no record that she every used his name. She was noted in society in Lancaster Texas during the 1890's under her name of Hammond. She is mentioned in a notice in the Dallas Morning news June 6, 1892 which reads, "Mrs. J. Gannon of Dallas was recently entertained by Mrs. M. E. Hammond in Lancaster." [Mrs. Gannon was her younger sister, Ida Mays Gannon who married a banker in Dallas.] According to her daughter, Cora Lee Owens' obituary in December 1909 she was living in Lancaster. But at the time of the 1910 census, she was living with her daughter, Marion Oldham in Ft. Worth. The 1910 Tarrant county census states that she had bore seven children and three of them are alive. At her death in 1911 she was living with her daughter, Marion Oldham, in Fort Worth Texas. Her remains were brought back to Lancaster in Dallas County to be buried. She is buried with her husband and son Shelby Hammond who died in the 1880's. There is a Mary E. Hammond living in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas in the 1900 census with a family that could be her second husband's family. This information has not been checked out yet.
By 1886/87, Mrs.Mary E. Hammond, widow of F. M. Hammond resides and owns a boardinghouse at 335 Ross between Orange and Masten. Ferdinand M. Hammond Jr. is a clerk for Goldsmith Bros. (Goldsmith Bros. from New York and carry an expensive line of dry goods.) and houses with Mrs. M. E. Hammond at 335 Ross. Miss Cora Hammond works as a clerk for the Bradstreet Company and houses with her mother. In 1888/89, F. M. Hammond Jr. is a clerk for J. A. O'Reilly and Co, and houses with his mother, Mrs M. E. Hammond, widow, continues to operate a boardinghouse on Ross Avenue. A Dallas newspaper, dated November 4, 1911 published Mary E. Mays Hammond�s obituary appears entitled �Dallas Lady Dies�. �It states that Enoch and family came to Dallas in 1868. They moved to Texas from Monticello, Florida and Mary was born in 1840. They first settled in Grimes County where she married Mr. F. M. Hammond. [They were were married in Grimes County July 22, 1862.] Her father Enoch organized the first bank opened in Dallas. Mary passed away in Fort Worth on November 3, 1911. She was 72 years of age. She died in the evening at the home of her son-in-law C. K. Oldham at the Buckingham Apartments (Arlington Heights). She was formerly a resident of Dallas where her husband was the first banker the town ever had. She was the daughter of Enoch Mays, one of the oldest settlers of Dallas County. For three years, she has lived with her daughter, Mrs. [Marion H] Oldham. Other members of the family surviving are F. M. Hammond (Jr.) of Lancaster, Dallas County, and two sisters, Mrs. W. O. (Lula) Connor of Dallas,and Mrs. J. J. (Ida) Gannon of New Orleans and one brother S R Mays of Fort Worth. The body will be sent to Lancaster for burial, leaving there Saturday." [The obituary does not mention E. G. Mays Jr., or D. B Mays two other brothers who are deceased. William A. Mays died in 1906.]
In the 1886/1887 Dallas city directory, the widow, M. E. Hammond is operating a boarding house on Ross Avenue. Cora is working as a clerk for a firm and F M. is working as a clerk for a firm. Harry would be too young to mention in the directory, and Marion is not mentioned. She may have been away at school. Where the family was living in the period from 1884-1886 is unknown. They could have remained in Hammond Station for a while trying to decide what to do with their lives. There is a record in Dallas county records that Mrs. Mary E. Hammond married W. G. McClendon October 3, 1888. Officiating was S N Braswell, JP. It is interesting to note that this is the same JP that married her daughter Marion later in 1898. I can find no record that she ever used this name, nor can I find any record of Mr. W. G. McClendon. There was a Mary E Hammond, widow living with an unidentified family in Hillsboro, Hill County in 1900. In as separate household there is a young William G. McClendon who may be a son of W. G. MCClendon? There was also a newspaper notation that year that Mrs. B W [Cora Lee] Owens departed that city for Mississippi in 1900 for a visit. There are other snippets of information that Mrs. Mary E. Hammond was entertaining her sister Mrs. J J Gannon in Lancaster in the 1890's. More research is needed here.
The Fourth Tennessee Regiment was organized May 18, 1861, with R. P. Neely, colonel; O. F. Strahl, lieutenant-colonel; J. F. Henry, major; Henry Hampton, adjutant; J. A. Williams, sergeant; L. P. Yandell, assistant sergeant, and W. C. Gray, chaplain.
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