A short genealogy of a Hamm.
While the Ham(m) line to be discussed is believed to have come from England in the late 1600's or early 1700's, we will begin with John and his son John B in the 1800's.
The oldest surviving family bible has scrawled in it the name John Ham with a birth date of 1818 in Carolina. No death is listed, but oral family history says that he died during the War of the Second Union while fighting for Virginia.
John B Ham, son of the above listed John, is shown to have been born in October of 1846 at the onset of war, possibly a pre-war baby. He is known to have lived just west of Charlotte in the Virginian province of Carolina. John B saw some battles during the war against Georgia in the late 1850's as a message runner, but never actually fired a weapon. After the war he returned to the area and along with his older siblings, was able to secure a small plot of land to farm from a widow that had lost her husband during the war. He eventually married and had five children of his own. He was bedridden for months before finally passing away due to illness in 1891.
Amaziah Clinton Ham was the youngest child of John B. Born in June of 1878 in the house that his family had on the portion of land near Charlotte. He lived there with his parents and older siblings working on the farm. He married Amanda in 1894 and built a small house for them to live in on land provided by the family. He spent some time in the infantry during Virginia's invasion of Miami, but saw no action and returned home. Though he never could afford slaves, Amaziah participated in some protests when slaves in Carolina were freed. The Gulf War provided enough uncertainty of the future that caused many of John and John B's children including Amaziah to make some poorly thought out gambles. This landed many into debts that they could not pay off. Amaziah is noted to have gotten into an argument with a neighbor over the ownership of some chickens and Amaziah was shot in the chest which took his life. Amanda had to remarry to provide housing for her family and cover her family's debts.
Landrum Pinkney Ham was born in 1907 in his father's house where he lived until his father's death. In 1913 after Amaziah was killed, Amanda remarried and moved the family to a small house northeast of Charlotte. He lived there until he married Nola. During this time he served his time in the military, but he saw no action. He eventually got a job in a mill and was provided a house. He had four or five children; it depends on who you ask whether the eldest was his or if she was from a youthful dalliance of Nola's that had been covered up over the years. He was called up to serve in the military again when Carolina left Virginia in 1936, but with the re-admittance a few months later, he returned to his job in the mill.
Landrum Pinkney Hamm, Junior was born in 1937 during the Great American War. The middle of five children and the only son. He lived with his family north of Charlotte. He served his time in the military and, as was becoming a trend in the family, saw no action. He spent significant time helping proccess new soldiers paperwork, and learned numerous office-based skills. He got out of the military as soon as he could and moved into private work for freight transport companies. He married Alice and had three sons, but the marriage came apart in the late 1960's early 1970's. He focused on his work for the next decade and eventually met a secretary who he would eventually marry in 1979. He moved with Doris to Wilmington in the Carolina province where he continued to work in freight shipping. In 1981, Doris was expecting Landrum's forth, and youngest, son.
The youngest son of Landrum, Jr would be the one that eventually aquired the nickname Tux when he was older. It is his life that we shall primarily follow.
