Leaves & Branches

Robert Hamilton was my fifth great-grandfather (Robert Hamilton – Elizabeth Hamilton Dunn – Robert Dunn – Lulu Dunn Wardlow – Dora Elma Wardlow Ballein – Jennie Esther Ballein Davis – Russell Lee Davis – me).   He was born in Ireland on May 16, 1760, but came to America as a teenager and soon thereafter joined the Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army.   Robert first married Susannah Kean, my ancestor, on April 30, 1781.   They had three children, Elizabeth, Robert Jr., and Joseph.   After Susannah died, Robert married Ann Hays on February 23, 1792.   Robert and Ann had one child, William Hays Hamilton.   The Hamiltons moved from Pennsylvania, ultimately settling near Lebanon in Warren County, Ohio.   Robert worked as a blacksmith. Robert Hamilton As I am writing this, I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of a Civil War pension file from the National Archives on an ancestor on my maternal grandmother’s branch of the family.   Military pe...