Joel Ham, farmer, sec. 20; P. 0. Chambersburg. In Rutherford Co., Tenn., in 1829, there was born to James and Mary Ham the subject of this sketch; they moved to this county when their son was one year old; here he grew to manhood, and May 9, 1850, was married to Miss Sarah A. Wells, who was born in this township April 29, 1833. James A., Orson, Sarah H., Bennett D. and Charles are the names of the children born to. them. Mrs. H. died, and Sept. 8, 1859, Mr. H. married Miss Malvina Lee, who was born May 24, 1836, at Orleans, Ind. Ten children have been born to them,—Benj. F., Angenettia, Lucretia, David L., Enoch, Walter S., Harvey, Anna E., Dollie P., Frederick A. The following of his former children are dead: James A., Orson and Charlie; and of the latter, Benjamin, Lucretia and Dollie. Mr. H. began life very poor, but now owns 400 acres of land. He well remembers about the early settlers pounding corn with an iron wedge in the top of a stump burned out for the purpose, and when it took two days for his father to go to mill with the grist in a sack thrown over the horse’s back. All the sugar they used was from the maple trees standing in the forest. Mrs. H. is a member of the Christian Church.

History of Pike County Chapman & Co. 1880 (People/ Towns / Religion/ )