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Lydia Hammer

Born at Missouri in 1886.

born about 1886 at Missouri, United States

Life story

Lydia Hammer was born in Missouri about 1886, the eldest known child of Fritz (Fred) Hammer and Mary Christina Hegnauer, who had married in Bates County in March 1885.1–2 Her mother was a daughter of the Swiss-born farmer Leonhard Hegnauer of Pleasant Gap Township.3

In June 1900 Lydia, about fourteen, was at school and living on her parents' farm in Pleasant Gap Township with her brothers William and Arthur and her sister Emily. Her aunt Katie Link's family was enumerated on the same census page.1 Her later life has not been traced.

What we know

Probable

  • Birth at Missouri, 1886

What's still open

Nothing the notes flag. Which is not the same as nothing left to find.

Sources

Sources 1–2

1 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Pleasant Gap Township
2 Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1885

Source 3

3 History of Bates County, Missouri, 1918

Life in time

about 1886

Birth , Missouri, United States

probable Source 1

How we know

  1. 1886 Birth about 1886 · Missouri, United States · probable

    Probably in Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County, where her parents farmed. The family tree gives Mar 1886.

    Her only record seen is the 1900 census, where she is in her parents' household (index entry attached to her in the family tree). The tree's birth date, Mar 1886, carries no source in the tree; it was presumably taken from that census entry (the 1900 census asked for month and year of birth), which has not been re-read. The year is recorded as approximate until it is checked.

    Source 1

  2. 1900 Residence Pleasant Gap Township, Bates · proven

    Daughter, single, at school, in the household of her parents Fritz and Mary Christina Hammer.

    Index entry attached to her in the family tree; her parents' names and her brothers and sisters identify the household. Image not re-read.

    Source 1

  • proven
  • probable

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Places in this life

2 places, in order
1 2
  1. 1 Missouri, United States Birth about 1886
  2. 2 Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County Residence 1900

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Family

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The evidence 2 facts with their grades, 3 sources, and the research notes

Facts

Fact Date Place Grade Sources
Birth about 1886 Missouri, United States probable 1
Residence 1900 Pleasant Gap Township, Bates, Missouri, United States proven 1

Research notes

  • Sources: Her birth and 1900 residence come from the census index entry attached to her in the Ancestry tree; the image has not been re-read. The other items were read on screen during the surveys of her Hegnauer relatives' records.
  • Leads: the 1910 census of Pleasant Gap Township; Bates County marriage records after 1900; her grandmother Susanna Hegnauer's obituary of February 1918, which counted twenty-one grandchildren.
  • Not her: WikiTree's Lydia Elizabeth (Hammer) Kropf (1885–1976, Milverton, Ontario) is another woman.

Sources

  1. 1

    1900 U.S. Federal Census, Pleasant Gap Township, Bates County, Missouri, E.D. 18, page 1, roll 839, household of Fritz Hammer (head, farmer, married), with his wife Mary Christina and children Lydia, William L., Emily C. and Arthur; database with images, Ancestry.com (index entries attached to the family in the Ancestry tree; image not re-read).

  2. 2

    "Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805–2002," database with images, Ancestry.com, marriage of Fritz Hammer and Mary Christina Hegnauer, 12 March 1885, Bates County, Missouri (Missouri State Archives microfilm), attached to both in the family tree; and "Missouri, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1851–1900," database, Ancestry.com, the same marriage (index entries and image not re-read).

  3. 3

    [W. O. Atkeson], History of Bates County, Missouri (1918), pp. 719–721, sketch of Christian Hegnauer, listing the children of Leonard Hegnauer, among them Mrs. Mary C. Hammer of Pleasant Gap Township; scan shared by Susanna Vogt, "Bates History - Hegnauer excerpt," Ancestry member tree 37158608, 4 December 2023.