General Notes

Hammond was the first of the  Bouldin family to come to Texas, having arrived initially about 1846 to expore the prospects and begin acquiring land for the subsequent settlement of the larger family. He married his cousin, Martha Jane, who had been orphaned by the death of her parents about the time whe was 12. She was adopted by Colonel William Graves Bouldin , and married Hammond when whe was about 16. H ammond becaume a Physician after his wief's death in 1851, served in the Confederacy as a Lieutenant in Company K, 8th Texas Cavalry. He had married thedaughter of Colonel W. W. Browning, Elizabeth, and continued to practice medicine in Chappell Hill until 1889, when he sold his 400 acre farm and moved to Lawn, Taylor Co. Texas where he purchased a 710 acre ranch and built a home at the age of 64. In 1890 he added 320 acres to his ranch . He and Elizabeth  are both buried in a small grave site, enclosed by an iron fence, and surounded by live oaks in the garden of the original home place.

Source Terry's Texas Rangers, Confederate Veteran Vol. 13, No 6, Page 281, June 1905; Terrystexasrangers.org/library/confederate_ veteran/1905_281.html

In the life of De. Hammond Bouldin was exemplified the love of God, of country, and of his fellow man. In the flush of youth , at his country's call, he joined the 8th Texas Cavalry, and till the str of the Confederacy went down in defeat he was faithful to his duties as soldier and surgeon, and through the successes and failures of succeecing years his love and loyalty to the South and the principles for which he fought never  faltered. He was a Confederate soldier to the last. As a lover of his kind, he delighted in later years to gather about him his friends and comrades, and on every suitable occasion it was his pleasure to entertain them with a gracious cordiality and hospitality. In later years, when eyes grew dim and feet were faltering, the word of God was a light for his guidance and a stay for his feeblemess, and his passage into the beyond was with hope of a better like. D.r Bouldin was born in Madison County, Alabama. He died at Lawn, Texas, on the morning of April 16, having passed but shortly into his eighty first year. He went to Texas in 1850 and settled inWashington County. Though twice married , only a son and grandchildren survive him. The last years of his life were passed a Lawn, in Taylor County, Texas.