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Re: Who was Harry Morse ?
Robert G Hammond
9/6/1885 DOB in San Francisco
1900 US Census has the Hammond family living in Santa Cruz. Parents are Henry and Alice and they are farmers. Children are: Otis, Elmar, Robert, Cora. Walter and Tacy are added, Not sure if they were cousins.
1906 in Stockton
4/7/1909 (Californian, Salinas, p. 3) News from Pleyto, Ca. Two young preachers Revs. Robert and Elmer Hammond (brothers) have been holding religious services at Mr. Ford's place and also at Shiloh church the past week. They are of the Apostolic faith.
12/30/1911 Stockton Daily Evening Record, p. 1) Robert G. Hammond marries Bessie Jane Merrill. He is from Santa Cruz and she is from Eureka. Marriage performed by JTC Smith.( 1/5/1912 Santa Cruz Evening News.p.5)
4/13/1912 (Stockton Daily Evening Record, p. 16) The funeral of Guy F Harrison waa hold Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the funeral partora of R C Wallace. Rev Robert Hammond of the Pentecostal Mission officiated and sacred selections were sung by Mrs M K Mercer Mrs Robert Hammond and Mr Otto Michael. The pall bearers were Otto Michael L P Haney Frank Ulrey and Jesse Hayford Interment was In Rural cemetery.
1916 Robert Hammond is pastor of 24 South Grant Street Pent. Mission
7/29/1917 (Morning Union, Grass Valley, p. 2) R. G. Hammond and Ivan Johnson, revivalists representing the Pentecostal Missions, have arrived in this city to conduct a series of Pentecostal meetings and they have pitched a large tent with a seating capacity of two hundred at Hills Flat. Meetings will be held every night except Monday night... They state that the full gospel wall be preached and prophecy unfolded in the light of the Holy Scriptures. Everybody is invited to attend the services. Among the topics to be taken up is "Is the world Getting . Better and Is This the Iast War? There will be no admission charge.
9/12/1918 Draft Registration. Hammond lived in Portland, Oregon. He was pastor at the Mission. He is married to Bessie J Hammond.
1920 US Census has Hammond in Humboldt, Mad River, Cal. He is an evangelist. Married to Bessie. They are living with her parents.
5/17/1922 sails from Honolulu to SF. Robert Hammond. Lives in Stockton. Born 5/19/1974 in Stockton. Married. Norma Hammond was born 1891 in Denver. Lives in Stockton.
Voter registration for Santa Cruz 1900-1922 has Robert Gilbert Hammond in Santa Cruz. At the time, he was 21 years old and a farmer. Henry Otis Hammond also lived in Santa Cruz and was a 51 year old farmer.
8/8/1924 Hammond marries Ellen Larson in Missoula, Montana.
7/13/1925 (Santa Cruz Evening News.p.8) Robert G. Hammond, from Idaho, is in town to preach at the Golden Gospel Mission. Ordination service. Sister George Bennett from Twin Lakes was ordained by state elder JJ Mundy and assisted by Hammond. Oliver F. Dean is the pastor.
2/23/1929 (Idaho Evening Time, p. 5) Bethel Temple. Robert Hammond is pastor. Special services under the “Cornish evangelist” will continue until further notice. Come and hear this evangelist who preaches a full gospel in a simple, direct way.
9/12/1929 (Bend Bulletin.p.6) Robert Hammond speaker at Pent. Mission. Marlling.
1/23/1934 (Santa Cruz Even. News.p.6) Ellen Hammond passes away. Robert is pastoring in Boise, idaho. Hammond conducted a mission on Pacifica Ave for a year in Santa Cruz.
9/16/1934 (Santa Cruz Even. News.p.8) Hammond conducted a mission in Boise for the summer. Now he is speaker at the Rescue Mission in Santa Cruz. Both Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Nigh will speak at a revival at the same mission.
12/31/1935 Hammond married Lottie Bell in Santa Cruz.
3/11/1938(Santa Cruz Sentinel .p.7) HAMMOND In Santa Cruz. March 10. S, Harry Otis Hammond, husband of Mrs. Alice Hammond, father of Mrs. Cora Small of Canada, Otis Elroy Hammond of Stockton, Robort G. Hammond of Washington and Waller B. and Tracy I. Hammond of Santa Cruz , brother of Geore M. Hammond; native of Don Pedro Bar, . Sun Joaquin valley, aged 82 years. Funeral services will be held at the While Mortuary Saturday at 2 p. in. Friends are respectfully invited to. Attend.
1940 US Census has Hammond living in Redding, Cal. He is a preacher and his wife is Lottie B. she is 45. They have 2 sons: Tracy and Louis.
1942. Robert Gilbert Hammond lived in Chico Butte, Cal. He was a minister of the PC of JC. The name LeRoy Richardson of North Sacramento is mentioned as employer.. This is all found on his WW2 draft registration. His contact is Alice Hammond of Santa Cruz.
7/8/1943 (Santa Cruz Even. News.p.5) Hammond lives in Idaho.
1949 (Pentecostal Northwestern News) Hammond pastors First Full Gospel Church, Caldwell, Idaho.
9/11/1952 (Caribou County Sun.p.4) Robert G Hammond is a public school teacher. Not sure who he is. He also sells insurance for Farmers.
11/16/1967 DOD Nampa Canyon County, Idaho.
Spouse: Lottie Bell
Marriage: Dec. 31, 1935 Santa Cruz, California
Rev. R. G. Hammond
CALDWELL — The Rev. Robert Gilbert Hammond, 82, of 315 Seventh Ave. S., Nampa, a retired Full Gospel Church minister, died Thursday night at his home.
The Rev. Mr. Hammond was born Sept. 6, 1885, in San Francisco, and attended grade school in Santa Cruz, Calif. He attended a seminary at Pacific Grove, Calif., and began his ministry in 1907. He held pastorates in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho, as well as other parts of the United States and Canada, for 60 years. His last charge was the First Full Gospel Church in Caldwell.
He was married Dec. 31, 1935, at Santa Cruz to Lottie Bell. He was preceded in death by two sons, Irving Hammond, in 1937, and Eugene Hammond, who was killed in Korea in 1950.
He was a member of the First Full Gospel Church at Caldwell and the International Ministerial Association.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Hammond are six sons, Morse E. Hammond of Arnold, Calif., Tracy O. Hammond of Bryan, Ohio, Louis W. Hammond of San Lorenzo, Calif., Wesley Larson and Norton Larson, both in Washington, and Alfred Glen Larson, Boise; two daughters, Earlene Essex of El Centro, Calif., and Betty Jean Atkison of Indio, Calif.; two brothers, Walter Hammond of Santa Cruz and Tracy Hammond of Felton, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Corabelle Small, Vancouver, B.C., 31 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Services will be conducted at the First Full Gospel Church at 2:30 p.m. Monday by the Rev. Everett Roberts, Meridian, and the Rev. Russell King of Bailey. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens under direction of Peckham-Dakan Chapel.
Idaho Free Press & Caldwell News-Tribune, Saturday, November 18, 1967 — 2
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