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The Henry Hamill Family

Descendants of Henry Hamill

FIFTH GENERATION

 

11651. FRANCIS B. HOWLAND married VIRGINIA BESSE. They had a son:
116511. WILLIAM B HOWLAND

11661. AGNES O'KANE, "Dodo", married JOSEPH CANDY of Dublin, Ireland, where they afterwards resided. It was she who provided most of the information about the earliest generations to her cousin, Francis B. Howland, in her letter of 22 March, 1943 (q.v., Addenda). No further data.

11662. JOSEPHINE O'KANE, no data.

11663. MADELYN O'KANE, no data.

11664. LOUIS O'KANE, no data.

11665. JOHN O'KANE, no data.

11721. WILLIAM ARTHUR HAMILL, III was born 1 April, 1887. He married HELEN CARL WILKINS, born 19 February, 1894. They had two daughters:
117211. JEAN FORBES HAMILL
117212. NANCY GRAHAM HAMILL
William died in October or November, 1955.

11722. HENRY CLOYD HAMILL was born 18 October, 1889. He died 25 October, 1894 and was buried in Woodstown, New Jersey.

11731. HENRY CLOYD HAMILL, JR. was born 2 July, 1898. He died 10 July, 1899 of "spasms". He was buried in the family plot, lot 179, block 13 at Riverside Cemetery in Denver.

11732. HAROLD ARTHUR HAMILL was born in Denver, 21 March, 1899. He married MARY MITTIE WHITE in Carlsbad, New Mexico, 15 June, 1922. "Mittie" was born 2 April, 1904, daughter of Hilary White and Ollie Robinson. They had three children:
117321. HAROLD ARTHUR HAMILL, JR.
117322. MAY MARGARET HAMILL
117323. FIDELIA ANN HAMILL
Harold and Mittie were divorced 23 May, 1942. He died of burns received in an automobile accident at Camp Lee, Virginia, 2 August, 1942. He was buried in Artesia, New Mexico, 4 August, 1942. Mittie then married JOSEPH E."ED" TAYLOR of Artesia. She died there 21 May, 1969 and was buried in Artesia.

11741. JAMES BROWN VAN VECHTEN, JR. was born 1 May, 1894 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On 19 August, 1922, he married CHARLOTTE HUSEN, born 18 February, 1895. They had two children:
117411. ROBERTA ANN VAN VECHTEN
117412. CHARLOTTE VAN VECHTEN
James and Charlotte were divorced. James then married MARY ELIZABETH RYAN, 30 April, 1938. They had two children:
117413. MARY ELIZABETH VAN VECHTEN
117414. JAMES BROWN VAN VECHTEN, III
James died 24 December, 1947.

11742. ELEANOR HAMILL VAN VECHTEN was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 19 December, 1895. She married ALFRED WARNER ARMSTRONG, JR. on 24 February, (?). They had two children:
117421. ELEANOR VAN VECHTEN ARMSTRONG
117422. ALFRED WARNER ARMSTRONG, III
Eleanor died 31 August, 1976.

11743. PRISCILLA HAMILL VAN VECHTEN was born 11 January, 1898. She died a week later, 19 January, 1898.

11744. PRISCILLA LEEDOM VAN VECHTEN was born 4 October, 1900 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Puss" married NORTHMORE WILBUR HAMILL30, born 30 December, 1897. They had four children:
117441. HANNAH ELIZABETH HAMILL
117442. NORTHMORE WILBUR HAMILL, JR.
117443. PETER VAN VECHTEN HAMILL
117444. JOHN ROBERT HAMILL
Priscilla died in 196531. Northmore died in August, 1985 in Palm Beach County, Florida, 3340432.

11751. WILLIAM THOMAS HAMILL, CPA, was born in the family home in Georgetown, 31 October, 1901. In 1926, he married HELYN HARRIETTE MUMFORD, born 3 April, 1906, a daughter of Frederick Albert Mumford of New York City, and Elizabeth Keating of Castlecomer, County Kilkenny, Ireland. They had six children:
117511. WILLIAM THOMAS HAMILL, JR.
117512. ROBERT NORMAN HAMILL
117513. JOHN ARTHUR HAMILL
117514. NANCY CATHERINE HAMILL
117515. LINDA JEAN HAMILL
117516. CYNTHIA ELIZABETH HAMILL
Helyn died of cancer in Tucson, Arizona, 8 October, 1984. She was buried at Holy Hope Cemetery, Tucson. Bill died in San Diego, California, 4 June, 1987. His remains were cremated and the ashes scattered at sea.

11752. KATHERINE ELIZABETH HAMILL was born in the family home in Georgetown, 27 September, 1903. "Kate" married CHAUNCEY GORDON ADAM, born in Denver, 1 July, 1905. Chauncey was a son of John Gordon Grant Adam and Jennie Emma Van Der Lyp. They had three children:
117521. MARY KATHERINE ADAM
117522. KATHERINE ELIZABETH ADAM
117523. PATRICIA ELEANOR ADAM
Chauncey died of cancer in Denver, 15 November, 1966. He was buried in #13, row B, Memorial Terrace at Fairmount Cemetery, Denver. Kate died in Denver, 10 May, 1969. She was buried at his side.

11753. MARY PRISCILLA HAMILL was born in the family home in Georgetown, 20 April, 1906. "Puss" married LAURENCE THOMAS LATHROP. "Larry" was born 20 April, 1916 in Salt Lake City. They had one son:
117531. JOHN THOMAS LATHROP
Larry was an automotive parts sales manager. He died 1 March, 1980 in Thousand Oaks, California. Puss died there 5 October, 1982.

11754. JAMES NORMAN HAMILL, insurance agent, was born in the family home in Georgetown, 6 March, 1908. "Jim" married ADA GWENDOLYN BAKER in Golden, Colorado, 31 August, 1930. Ada was born in Sugar Creek Township, Greene County, Ohio, near Spring Valley, 24 May, 1910. She is a daughter of Jesse Francis Baker and Ethel Hartsock. Jim and Ada had six children:
117541. JAMES NORMAN HAMILL, JR.
117542. CLAUDIA JUNE HAMILL
117543. JUDITH ANN HAMILL
117544. BRUCE EDWARD HAMILL
117545. PHYLLIS ELEANOR HAMILL
117546. DARLENE ELIZABETH HAMILL
Jim and Ada bought the family home from his parents, at 237 South Logan Street in 1937, where they lived until 1953. They then sold it and bought another home at 1845 South Michigan Way, Denver, where they lived thereafter. Jim traveled Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico as a casualty insurance agent. He started in the insurance business in the late 1920s in Denver for the Thomas F. Daly Agency, introduced apparently by his father, who had worked for Daly in the early 1900s. He worked later for the London Assurance Group before going to Phoenix of Hartford. Jim died in Denver, 15 January, 1963. He was buried in the family plot, lot 178, block 13, at Riverside Cemetery in Denver. Ada continues to live at 1845 South Michigan Way, Denver, her home since 1953.

11755. ELEANOR L. HAMILL, "Dolly", was born at the family home in Georgetown, 4 April, 1910. Her middle initial, "L", stood for "Leedom", her grandmother's middle name. Dolly died unmarried in Denver from peritonitis resulting from cancer surgery, 3 March, 1935. She was buried in the family plot, lot 178, block 13, at Riverside Cemetery in Denver.

11756. HENRY THOMAS HAMILL, businessman, was born at the family home in Georgetown, 18 September, 1912. In 1937 "Tom" married LILLIAN BOTTERMAN who was born on 17 March, 1905, in Warsaw, Poland. She was the fifth of six children, three girls and three boys, all others of which are deceased as of October, 1991. The date of her arrival in the United States is unknown. Her mother later married a Kroll, by whom she had a son who currently resides in Long Beach, California. Tom and Lil ran a locker club and dry cleaning business in San Diego, California. They had no children. Tom died of a heart attack, 31 July, 1958, at his brother-in-law's house in Long Beach. He was buried in San Diego. Lillian then married "HARRY" GOODWIN. Harry died about 1982. Lil still lives in California as of January, 1997.

11757. HANNAH LORD HAMILL was the last of the children born in the family home in Georgetown, 7 November, 1914. She was known as Hannah PANCOAST Hamill, as she was named for her aunt, Hannah Lord Pancoast. Hannah married JOHN WILLIAM CARLSON, born 21 June, 1916. He was a son of Albert and Gladys L. Carlson. John and Hannah had three children:
117571. JOHN WILLIAM CARLSON, JR.
117572. DEANNA LEE CARLSON
117573. THOMAS ALBERT CARLSON
John died 1 May, 1977. He was buried at Lot 127, block 99, Fairmount Cemetery, Denver. Hannah died of cancer in Denver, 23 November, 1984. She was buried at his side.

11758. DOROTHY MARGARET HAMILL was born in Denver, 2 July 1917. She married FRANK SEWELL COWING of Walsenburg, Colorado, in Denver on 7 May, 1941. Frank was born 27 August, 1916. They had one daughter:
117581. DIANE ELAINE COWING
Frank died in Littleton, Colorado, 14 November, 1978. Dorothy died of renal failure in Mountain View Humana Hospital, Thornton, Colorado 14 August, 1986. Both were buried in the mausoleum, section 8, 29 and 30, tier E, Chapel floor, at Fairmont Cemetery, Denver.

11759. JOHN ARTHUR HAMILL, advertising executive, was born in Denver, 6 February, 1922. He served in the U. S. Coast Guard in World War II. On 23 May, 1943, in Denver, he married MARY ELIZABETH HINTZ, born in Denver, 27 August, 1922. She was one of three children of William Henry Hintz and Florence Abigail Long. John and Mary had three children:
117591. CHRISTINE HAMILL
117592. JOHN CASEY HAMILL
117593. JAMES RANDALL HAMILL
John died during open heart surgery in Denver, 4 February, 1975. He was buried at Happy Canyon Cemetery. Mary still resides in Denver as of January, 1997.

 

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