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The Henry Hamill Family

Descendants of Henry Hamill

FOURTH GENERATION

 

1161. LYDIA A. TOMLINSON was born in Philadelphia in 1856. She was buried with the Watsons at Riverside Cemetery on 8 September, 1890.

1162. THOMAS SEARLE TOMLINSON (THOMLINSON?) was born in Pennsylvania, 25 March, 1858. He was married and worked as a bookkeeper. He apparently lived at 340 Irene(?) Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado. He died in Cripple Creek, Colorado, 28 February, 1906, of pneumonia. He was buried with the Watsons at Riverside Cemetery in Denver, 3 March, 1906, age forty-seven.

1163. WALKER M. TOMLINSON (JR.?) apparently lived twenty years. His remains were moved from Leadville, Colorado to Riverside Cemetery in Denver, 14 January, 1879.

1164. (UNIDENTIFIED) TOMLINSON, no data.

1165. JOSEPHINE MARY WATSON was born in Colorado about 1867. She married W. R. HOWLAND, a son of Rufus Howland, whose ancestor John Howland was a passenger on the Mayflower. Josephine's parents, Joseph W. and "Fanny" Watson, lived with them at 246 West 13th Avenue, Denver until they died. Josephine and W. R. had a son:
11651. FRANCIS B. HOWLAND

1166. FANNIE REBECCA WATSON was born in Colorado about 1869. She married PATRICK FRANCIS JOSEPH O'KANE. They apparently lived in Ireland25. They had five children:
11661. AGNES O'KANE
11662. JOSEPHINE O'KANE
11663. MADELYN O'KANE
11664. LOUIS O'KANE
11665. JOHN O'KANE

1167. JOSEPH WARRINGTON WATSON, JR. was born in Colorado about 1871. He drowned in a lake near Denver, 27 July, 1880. A friend, David Scroggs, attempted to rescue young Joe, became entangled in weeds, and drowned as well. Both were buried in the Watson family plot at Riverside Cemetery in Denver.

1168. LILA EUGENIA WATSON was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, about 1873. No further data.

1169. WILLIAM ARTHUR WATSON was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, about 1875. No further data.

116(10). HARRY WATSON was born in Denver, Colorado in the 1880's. He was buried with the Watson family at Riverside Cemetery in Denver.

116(11). EMILY BEULAH WATSON was born in Denver, Colorado, about 1881. Her ashes were buried with the Watson family at Riverside Cemetery in Denver, 12 April, 1923. She was forty-two.

1171. PRISCILLA LEEDOM HAMILL was born, presumably in Philadelphia, 21 November, 1859. She died, presumably in Pennsylvania, 9 January, 1867.

1172. WILLIAM ARTHUR HAMILL JR. was born in Philadelphia, 6 November, 1861. On 8 July, 1886, he married HANNAH LORD PANCOAST, daughter of James Childs Pancoast and Charlotte Royal26. She was born in 1862.
"Will" and Hannah had two sons:
11721. WILLIAM ARTHUR HAMILL, III
11722. HENRY CLOYD HAMILL
Will was killed in a firearm accident while hunting at the family "Diamond" Ranch27 north of present day Hayden, Colorado, 2 January, 189028. He was buried in the family plot, lot 179, block 13, at Riverside Cemetery in Denver. Hannah took the two young boys to New Jersey where she married SAMUEL PANCOAST COMLY. Hannah and Sam had two children:
ANNA PANCOAST COMLY
SAMUEL PANCOAST COMLY JR.
Sam died in 1918. Hannah died 19 August, 1942. Both were apparently buried in Woodstown, New Jersey.

1173. HENRY CLOYD HAMILL, Mining Engineer, Yale, was born in Philadelphia 11 September, 1864. He married MARGARET LOUISE THORNTON on 9 November, 1896, in Cripple Creek. "Harry" and "Maggie" had two sons:
11731. HENRY CLOYD HAMILL, JR.
11732. HAROLD ARTHUR HAMILL
Harry worked with his father in Denver as early as 1900, with offices at Suite 209, Equitable Building. He resided with his family at 1336 E. 17th Avenue in 1900 and at 1883-5 Vine Street at least until 1904 when he was employed as a "Calculator" for the U.S. Surveyor General. Sometime after his father's death in Denver in February, 1904, Harry moved with his family to Santa Fe, New Mexico where he died 12 January, 1927.

1174. HANNAH ELIZABETH HAMILL, called "Lil", was born in the family home in Georgetown on 9 May, 1871. She went to "Miss Ogontz School" in Pennsylvania. She spent time in London as her father's hostess and was presented at Queen Victoria's court of Saint James, circa 1888-89, sponsored by "Cousin Jennie (or Jerrie)" (Jerome?) Churchill. On 9 September, 1893, she married JAMES BROWN VAN VECHTEN who was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1 September, 1871, a son of Peter Van Vechten. They had four children:
11741. JAMES BROWN VAN VECHTEN, JR.
11742. ELEANOR HAMILL VAN VECHTEN
11743. PRISCILLA HAMILL VAN VECHTEN
11744. PRISCILLA LEEDOM VAN VECHTEN
Lil died 2 January, 1923. She was buried in the family plot, lot 179, block 13, at Riverside Cemetery in Denver.

1175. HOCKLEY THOMAS HAMILL, public servant, was born in the family home in Georgetown 21 September, 1873. He attended Jarvis Hall, a school for boys, in Denver, a military school, St John's (?), in Missouri, and Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He was Postmaster of Georgetown for sixteen years, 1898-1914. He was also a dairyman and, at least part time, an insurance agent for the Thomas F. Daly Agency, Denver. On 5 January, 1900, he married KATHERINE BERNADETTE HAGGART of Georgetown, Colorado. She was the fifth of six children of James H. Haggart from Scotland and Catherine G. McNulty of Cumberland, Maryland. "Kate" was born in Brownville (adjacent to Silver Plume), Colorado, 10 August, 1878. "Tom" and Kate had nine children:
11751. WILLIAM THOMAS HAMILL
11752. KATHERINE ELIZABETH HAMILL
11753. MARY PRISCILLA HAMILL
11754. JAMES NORMAN HAMILL
11755. ELEANOR L. HAMILL
11756. HENRY THOMAS HAMILL
11757. HANNAH LORD HAMILL
11758. DOROTHY MARGARET HAMILL
11759. JOHN ARTHUR HAMILL
After the death of Kate's brother, James W. Haggart, the family moved to Denver in April, 1915, where they lived with Kate's mother at 237 South Logan. There the last two children were born. Tom worked for four years at the Public Service Company of Colorado and then went to work in the state insurance fund office. About 1933 he was appointed as an assistant manager of the Colorado state compensation insurance fund. He retired from public service in 1938, traveled with Kate to California to visit some of their children, and returned to live at 426 South Washington Street, Denver. He died at home in Denver of a heart attack (coronary thrombosis), 11 December, 1940. Kate spent some time living with various of her children's families before she died at her daughter, Dorothy's, house in Littleton, Colorado, from complications arising from a broken hip, 31 August, 1961. Both Tom and Kate were buried in the family plot, lot 178, block 13 in Riverside Cemetery in Denver.

1176. (Unidentified daughter) HAMILL, was born in Georgetown, Colorado, 15 October, 1875. (from Georgetown Miner). "W. A. Hamill's child (infant)" was buried at St Mary's, Alvarado Cemetery, Georgetown, Colorado, 15 August, 1875. (From account books of Henry Boyer, local undertaker.) No further data.

1177. JAMES NORMAN HAMILL, mining entrepeneur and sports promoter, was born in the family home in Georgetown, Colorado, 20 March, 1877. He engaged in mining activities with his father in Denver in the early 1900s and shared offices with him and Jim's brother, Harry, at Suite 209, Equitable Building in Denver in 1903. He then lived at 13th Avenue and Grant Street, Denver. He continued mining activity in Clear Creek County, especially in Wideawake Gulch, above Silver Plume, until his death. On 4 July, 1905, in St. Louis, Missouri, he married KITTY GAYNOR, born in Iowa, 21 August, 1879. Kitty had a daughter, Faye Catherine Harvey, born 8 March, 1896, in Iowa, daughter of Howard Harvey. Faye was a stenographer. She died in Denver of Tuberculosis. Jim and Kitty had no children. Kitty had a brother, Major Clement Gaynor, and a sister, Mrs. Lucille Buclese. Kitty died on their thirty-second wedding anniversary, 4 July, 1937, in Denver, of cancer. Jim was prominently identified with Denver's sporting fraternity as a prize fight promoter and was active in politics. He served for a time as assistant government prohibition administrator for Colorado. Jim died in his Cosmopolitan Hotel room, in Denver, of a heart attack (coronary thrombosis), 2 November, 1937. Jim, Kitty and Faye were all buried in the family plot, lot 179, block 13, at Riverside Cemetery in Denver.

1181. JAMES HAMILL MOON29, no firm data. Records at St. Peter's, Liverpool, show the following christenings:
MOON, JAMES SEARLE c. HENRY MOON /JANE 05 APR 1854
MOON, HENRY c. HENRY MOON / JANE 31 OCT 1861
MOON, JAMES c. WILLIAM MOON / JANE 19 MAY 1861

 

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