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Hamilton Reunion Approximately 300 dessendantsof Jeffry Wilson-Hamilton, oldIndian of the original Cherokees, born in 1773, Boone County, West Virginia prior to the birth of the United States and passing to the “Happy Hunting Ground’* at the ripe age of 114 years, assembled in their annual reunion at the gravel pit on Doc. Hamilton’s farm in Wilmington, Ohio, August 31st 1925Marquis Hamilton, fifty years resident in Lawrence, his daughter, Zalita Hamilton, Myalyn Hamilton Brown and her mother, Mrs. Mattie Shephard-Hamilton, also an old resident of Lawrence, attended the reunioniMarquis, his six children and Myrlynj are direct descendants of old Jeffry whose tribal parents saw colonial America press the reman back, claim his lands and transform his stomping grounds into an exacting civilization.A. Hamilton shrine was considered for erect’on in memory of oldChief Jeffry, called “Father of the Hamiltons.** Also data bearing on the lineage of the Hamiltons and their progress was considered for their family book to be written by Shirley Hamilton.Marquis and Newton Hamilton, oldest members of the Hamilton, had conferred upon them the hon-
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Lawrence Daily Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Tue, Sep 08, 1925
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