History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 657-658, Farmers' Township
William W. Hammond, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 31, Farmers’
tp.; P. O., Table Grove. He was born May 27, 1835, in Sullivan Co.,
Tenn.; his educational advantages were limited, but by hard study
obtained an education that enabled him to teach. His father, Mickey
Hammond, of McDonough Co., is a native of Sullivan Co., Tenn., is a
veteran of the war of 1812, and hence a pensioner. Mr. Hammond, sen.,
settled in McDonough Co. in 1855, and is a prominent farmer of that
county. Our subject was married in 1864 to Minerva C. Harlan {Harland},
and they have had 6 children, - Wm. R., James E., Thomas A., Nellie,
Fannie and an infant boy. Mr. Hammond possesses 320 acres here, and 160
acres in McDonough Co.
