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| Jesse and Elizabeth Hamrick |
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| With their children c 1860 |
| Jesse and Elizabeth Hamrick |
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| Jesse's parents: Nimrod and Mariah Hamrick |
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Nimrod Nathaniel Hamrick, also known as NM Hamrick, and his wife Mariah Adams, were married
in 1816. Their large family traveled extensively from their roots in Virginia, to Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and acoss the
country finally to settle in California by 1850. It is known by virtue of our precious Hamrick Trail Diary that Nimrod and Mariah came to California in 1863, his son George and daughter in law Katty
are living next door to Jesse and Elizabeth in 1870, in Amador County, CA. as they are enumerated there on the census.
| Grandma Lulu Mae Martin |
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| married Bertram Wright |
| My Grandmother |
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| Lulu Mae Martin Wright-A Hamrick Descendant |
Lulu Mae Martin was 15 years old in 1900 when the photo of her was taken, which I recently
used to paint the portrait, I knew her only as Grandma, but not til the 1960's, when she was old, gray, funny, sharp
as a tack, prone to take a nip or two, smoked like a chimney, coughed like she was about to keel over, into the ever present
tissue, and chase us kids around the house on Stonehedge Way in her big orthopaedic shoes, worn over her thick stockings that
she held up with large bands of elastic that did not make it up over her knees, and which she was always yanking up, she always
had on a cotton apron, with big pockets that hid the treasures of the world and a truly mischievous twinkle
in her eye. She could give a killer massage and taught me how to pull and make the best homemade taffy this side of Coney
Island.
Grandma was a real hoot!
| Barney Wright |
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| My uncle as a baby, grandson of Sara Hamrick |
More Hamrick Photos, featuring John W. Hamrick and his son George's family.
| Then and Now |
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| Hamrick's Roads |
Another page from my Hamrick book shows how their homestead looked about 1895, and how the
road going into the same property looks today, over 100 years later, the road sign says "Hamricks Grade".
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