History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 639.
[Scott County]   [Oxford Precinct]

AMBROSE DUDLEY HAMON, farmer, P. O. Oxford, was born in Woodford County,
Ky., in 1818; son of Ezra and Hannah (Farra) Hamon, he, born in
Pennsylvania, March 14, 1774, and came to Kentucky about 1795; a farmer
and stone mason, dying in 1863; she, born in Jessamine County, and dying
in 1842.  They had twelve children, nine boys and three girls.  Our
subject received his education at the schools of his native county, and
began life as a wagon-maker, carrying on that business and blacksmithing,
for about twenty years.  He was married in Fayette County, in 1848, to
Eliza Jane Hardesty, born in Fayette County, Jan. 17, 1825; daughter of
Henry and Sarah (Dikes) Hardesty, by which union there have been five
children born, four of whom are living: Hannah Lucy, Sally Henry, Fanny
Lee, Mary and Ducker.  Although advanced in years, Mr. Hamon is one of
the most energetic of men, and he has by industry and economy surrounded
himself with the comforts of life, having reared a family of highly
cultivated children.  They are members of the Baptist Church, and his is
a Democrat.

Hamon Farra Hardesty Dikes
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Woodford-KY Jessamine-KY Fayette-KY PA

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