Information obtained from Harry Hamrick, by way of Liz Hamrick, and from JR McKinney.
And some Mississippi, Georgia and Alabama Hamrick Links:
James Martin Hamrick; A 19th Century Autobiography
Grandpa Hamrick's First Six Children
Thomas Jefferson Hamrick
Family Tree Follows
Grandpa Hamrick and his first wife, Sinis Brown Hamrick, named their first child Elmira for Grandpa's sister who married Lawson Gunn and in the family bible it reads, "Catherine E Gunn was born the second of January, 1847." An entry below states, "The deceased mother of the above departed this life the fifth of January 1847". That would have been Elmira.
Grandpa Hamrick named his second child John for his father and probably for his brother three years younger than himself who died at age 8 1/2. (5 years after this John died John C. and Katherinee Hamrick had another son whom they also named John).
The third child was named Margaret. Maybe Grandma Sinia had a loved one by that name.
They named the forth child thomas (Tom) for Grandpa Thomas Jefferson Hamrick.
The fifth child was named Joseph for John C.'s oldest brother. The five brothers were orphaned at an early age and Joseph was instrumental in getting the boys togather after they were "bound out" to different families to work.
They named their sixth child James for another of John C's brothers and one of Thomas Jefferson's brothers. James "Jim" must have been born in 1845 as he was five years old on the 1850 census. Grandma Sinia must have died in childbirth or soon after as Grandpa Hamrick married again in the "winter of 1846". James was 1; Joseph 3; Thomas 4; Margaret 6; John 8; and Elmira 10; when he remarried.
The second wife, Sabrina (Sibby), must have been a good person, to take on the motherhood of 6 children, all under 11 years of age.
Grandpa was 25 when married the first time; he was 36 the second time and his wife was 29.
Here is a version for this branch of the Hamrick family tree:
Patrick Hamrick 1684 m Margaret Ingles
Their son:
Joseph Hamrick 172? m Elizabeth?
Their son:
Thomas Hamrick 1714 m Sarah Scurlock
Their Children:
Joseph 1797
James 1782
William 1784-1812
Burwell 1787
John C 1786 m Catherine (Kate) Myers
Their Child:
Thomas Jefferson 1810 m Sinia Brown 2nd Sabrina
Their Children:
Elmira 1835
John 1842
Margaret 1839
Thomas 1841
Joseph 1842
James 1845
Martha 1811 m William Brown
John 1813-1822
James 1817 m Jane Pitman
Elmira 1819 m Lawson Gunn
Emaline 1822 m Thomas Jefferson 1st cousin
Katherine 1825 m Hamrick?
John Myers 1827 m Brunner ?
Burwell 1833 m Amanda Dear
This a copy of a letter which Emmoline Hamrick is assisting her mother in obtaining a land warrant.
"Enterprise Post Office
Clark Co. Mississippi
To Captain Anderson-
Dear Sir-
John Hamrick sometimes called Ham(b)rick answers when called by eather name. He was a soldier in war of 1812. He died leaving a widow by the name of Catherine Ham(b)rick, Hamrick is the correct name. She received a Military land warrent for 160 acres of land.
This land warrent was placed in
the hands of a young man by the name of McGee. I am at a loss to know what he done with it.
He has had it three or four years and makes out that he is a going get it, but do not do
it. as such I want you, if you please Sir, to call on the Commessioner
of Pensions to get a copy or duplicate and the (?) and see if it has
ever been located and if located, give it the members of the same and
if it is not located please introduce a bill and have it post in favor of
their daughter Emmoline Hamrick.
She is the daughter of John Hamrick
and Catherine Hamrick that would be her right as her father and mother
are both dead, you will first have to find out weather it has ever been
located if it has not then introduse a bill to give it to their
daughter Emmoline Hamrick.
Yours Respectfully /
S. A. Kidd"
"Captain John C. Hamrick was a
military man when the Creek & Seminole war broke out in Ala. He
raised a Company of volunteres and joined Gen. Andrew Jackson.
They defeated the indians at Horseshoe Bend and Emucfaw. They drove the
few remaining ones into Fla. then marched overland to New Orleans where
defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans on Jan. 8, 1815. They
killed Gen Packenham and two thousand men. They then marched to Tenn.
cutting the trail as they went, whitch is known as Jackson Trail.
Captain Hamrick then went back to Milledgeville, Ga. where he lived until 1820. he inherited a large number of slaves. He took his family and his slaves and migrated to Ala. and settled on river-bottom which proved to be unheathfful. He then moved to Miss. (early in 1836) where he lived until he died Sept. 1, 1856.
Thomas Jefferson Hamrick (the first born son) inherited about 15 slaves and moved to the east side of Okatibbee (creek) and lived there until 1857 when he bought the Hamrick Planation one mile east of Collinsville. There he died in 1881 and was buried in the Hamrick Cementary.
One of his brothers lived in Isney, Ala. for a number of years. (My great grandfather) His descendents are around Waynesboro, MS and the Western part of Ala."
Information obtained from Harry Hamrick, by way of Liz Hamrick, and from JR McKinney.