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Question:I don't know what else to do. I found them on the 1860 census but I can't find anyone else. I am looking for Hammerstein's in Columbus, Ohio.....or Pomeroy..Salisbury, Meigs county, Ohio


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I don't know what else to do. I found them on the 1860 census but I can't find anyone else. I am looking for Hammerstein's in Columbus, Ohio.....or Pomeroy..Salisbury, Meigs county, Ohio

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohmeigs/news_by...
this is just a part of the Meigs county genweb site.. for a sample. There is a lot to search.. did they leave Meigs?

Sounds like you really need to hone in on the county. I, too, am doing research for a family that migrated to Ohio from Conn. Seems like they were in a different township every 3 or 4 yrs....farmers, but they did move around a lot.
Would suggest ancestry.com, Fed Census every 10 yrs from the last information that you had.

Just make it up, who's gunna know?

In 1860 I could only find 2 Hammersteins in Ohio...John and Catharine Hammerstein in Scioto, OH. However, they were 67 and 61 years old respectively so that would mean that their children, if any, had already moved away (maybe to another state).

There was a Mary Hammerstein in the 1870 census in a convent in Maysville, Mason, Kentucky who was born in 1843 in Ohio. That could possibly have been one of their daughters.

The first Hammersteins I could find in Columbus is in the 1900 census. But would need more information to know if they were your family.

I am hoping Pomeroy was a last name, though some of these have Pomeroy as a town in Meigs County, too. From ancestry.com:
Sarah Worthington Pomeroy
B : 10 Jun 1840 ,Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio, USA
D: 1 Aug 1902 ,Rugby, Tennessee, USA
Marriage: 22 Oct 1872 in Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio to:
Frederick O Wellman
B: 6 Feb 1841 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
D: 7 Oct 1917 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Sarah's parents:
Father: Charles Richard Pomeroy
B: 1806 ,Middletown, CT, Middlesex, England
D: Jun 1878
Marriage 1: 4 Nov 1835 in Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio
Mother: Elizabeth Rachel Worthington
B: 28 May 1814 in Berkeley,Virginia, USA
D: 7 Nov 1852
(10 children, with Sarah)
Charles' marriage 2:: 6 Mar 1856 to
Fannie Sehon
B: 22 Oct 1824 in Virginia, USA
D: 15 Sep 1897
(2 children)

Sarah's paternal grandparents:
Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy
B: 23 Aug 1764, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
D: 1841; Cincinatti, Ohio, USA
Marriage: 7 Sep 1796 in Middletown, Connecticut to:
Clarissa Alsop
B: 3 Jun 1770 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
D: 20 Jan 1852 in Pomeroy, Ohio, USA
(8 children)

Sarah's paternal great-grandparents:
Eleazer Wheelock Pomeroy
B: 1 Sep 1739; Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut,
D: abt 1784; Hartford, Connecticut
Marriage: 8 Mar 1764 in Hartford, Connecticut to:
Mary Wyllys
B: 7 Nov 1742 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
D: 14 Nov 1805 in Middletown, Connecticut,
(5 children)

Sarah's paternal 2nd great-grandparents:
Benjamin Pomeroy
B: 19 Nov 1704; Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut
D: 21 Dec 1784 ,Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, USA
Marriage: 23 Oct 1734 in Hebron, Tolland, Conn. to:
Abigail Wheelock
B: 3 Mar 1717 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA
D: 5 Jan 1803 in South Windsor, Connecticut,
(11 children)

Sarah's 3rd great-grandparents:
Joseph Pomeroy
B:26 Jun 1672 ,Northampton, Hampshire, Mass
D:16 Dec 1712, Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut
Marriage: 29 Nov 1692 in Northampton, Hampshire,Mass to:
Hannah Seymour
B: abt 1674 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
D: abt 1727 in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts
(7 children)
(Note: From Joseph, going back in time, are 5+ more generations. From Sarah's mother, going back, are over 6-11 generations to England. Her mother's side, Worthington on the paternal side, go back to 1578. Elizabeth Worthington's family on her mother's side--Swearingen--goes back to David Janse Swieringh, born 1610 in Holland)

www.rootsweb.com--Hammerstein:

Joseph Hammerstein, Jr was born 12 AUG 1854 in Beaver, Pike County, Ohio, and died 12 JUN 1943. Married in 1877 to: Marietta Agnes Westfall was born ABT 1856.

www.familysearch.org--
Joseph HAMMERSTEIN, Sr --b. 6 Jul 1837 ,Beaver, Oh ; d. 3 Aug 1911 ,Evansville, Vanderburgh Co., In
Parents: Father: Michael H. HAMMERSTEIN (b. 1791, Germany; d. 1848)
Mother: Margaret BRILL (BREDL?) -b.1795
<Bavaria>, d: 12 Jun 1871
Spouse: Maria Antonia SCHLOTTER (married: 1 Feb 1860 ,Trinity Cath Chu, Evansville, Vanderburgh, In )

There are a lot of Hammersteins listed on www.rootsweb.com before 1791, but I can't get beyond Michael (above) without any first names.