D. L. Hammond, of South Carolina, Here After Lapse of Many Years
D. L. Hammond and his daughters, of South Carolina, are visiting Mrs. Ellen W. Bellamy on College street. Mr. Hammond has not been in Macon in a good many years and expresses pleasurable surprise at the beauty of the parks and streets, and especially of Rose Hill cemetery, where his father, Dr. A. L. Hammond, a noted Confederate army surgeon, is buried in the Washington lot.
Dr. Hammond lost three sons in the war between the states, all of whom were officers. Afterward he volunteered his services as a surgeon and came to Macon to minister to the sons of other fathers confined in the hospital here, which at that time was the Academy for the Blind. While here Dr. Hammond took sick and died. He was a close friend of the Washington family and his body was interred on the Washington family lot in Rose Hill.
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