BOULDIN-HAMMOND
CEMETERY, (Old Rail Road Bed Road), MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA
HAMMOND, Eli, 16 Mar 1764 - 26 Jan 1842, aged 77 years, 8 months, & 10 days, "In
memory of Eli Hammond". (note: Age and dates conflict; Eli Hammond was in the
War of 1812 and a war companion of Andrew Jackson.)
http://tennessee.gov/tsla/history/military/tn1812.html
Tallushatchee and Talladega (3 and 9 November 1813)
"Less than fifteen miles from Fort Strother lay the Creek village of
Tallushatchee, where a large body of Red Sticks had assembled. Jackson ordered
General John Coffee, along with a thousand mounted men, to destroy the town. On
the morning of 3 November 1813, Coffee approached the village and divided his
detachment into two columns: the right composed of cavalry under Colonel John
Alcorn and the left under the command of Colonel Newton Cannon. The columns
encircled the town and the companies of Captain Eli Hammond and Lieutenant James
Patterson went inside the circle to draw the Creeks into the open. The ruse
worked. The Creek warriors charged the right column of Coffee's brigade, only to
retreat to their village where they were forced to make a desperate stand.
Coffee's army overpowered the Creeks and quickly eliminated them."
Captain Eli Hammond, the Indian fighter, who also was in the Nickajack
expedition of 1794.
Family Relationships:
Spouse: Mary Owen Hammond (1783 - 1840)
Known Children:
Mary Tabitha Jane Hammond Bouldin (1809 - 1840); Eli S Hammond (1813 -
1835); Ferdinand Lee Hammond (1814 - 1886); John Chesed Purnell Hammond (1816
- 1880); Benjamin Franklin Hammond (1818 - 1890)