Martha Jane Belnap (1855-1923)

Gathered here is the most comprehensive repository of materials on the life of Martha Jane Belnap, daughter of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap.  Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information concerning Martha Jane Belnap:

Biographical Materials

• Belnap, W. Dean. Heritage With Honor: Genealogy and History of the Ancestry and Descendants of Gilbert Belnap (1821 – 1899) (1974)
• Centennial History in Honor of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap, 1850-1950 (including 1952 and 1956 Supplements) 
• Greenwell, Betsy Robena H., comp. Early Utah Pioneers: Levi Hammon and Polly Chapman Bybee (1964)
• Hammon, Donald L., comp. Levi Byram and Martha Jane Belnap Hammon: Gold Medal Pioneers (1996)
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Stoker, Jimmie “B”. “Get Out of Life What You Can”–Jesse and Lettie Matilda Hammon Stoker: Their Family of Roy Utah (1874-1975) (2001)
• Stoker, JImmie “B”, ed. Striving Diligently: Ethel Elizabeth Blanch Stoker Memoirs (2004)

Newspaper Articles

• “Born,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 30 Aug 1881
• “To Improve Roads of Weber,” Ogden Standard Examiner, 23 May 1905

Census Records

• 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Weber County, UT (10 Jul 1860)
• 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Weber River Valley, Weber, UT (8 Jul 1870)
• 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Weber River Valley, Weber, UT (9 Jul 1870)
• 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Hooper, Weber, UT (3 Jun 1880)
• 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Roy, Weber, UT (19 Jun 1900)
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Roy, Weber, UT (12 May 1910)

Death Records

• Death Certificate: Martha Jane Hammon, 1923
• Death Certificate: Levi Byron [sic] Hammon, 1915

Photographs and Images

Individual Images

• Levi Byram Hammon (from Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah)

Group Images

• Levi Byram Hammon and Martha Jane Belnap Family (from original in possession of Patricia Belnap Johnson)
• Group portrait of first missionaries called to settle Arizona from Hooper, UT; back row (left to right):  Joseph Stone, Gilbert Rosel Belnap, William James Belnap; front row (left to right):  Levi Hammon, Levi Byram Hammon, William W. Child; 8 Mar 1873 (from Church History Library, PH 10; gift of John M. Belnap, Ogden, UT, Jan 1972)
  • Front
  • Back

Headstone

• Headstone: Roy City Cemetery: Levi Byram Hammon and Martha Jane Belnap Family
• Headstone: Roy City Cemetery: Martha Jane Belnap

Spouse

• Levi Byram Hammon (1844-1915)

Children

• Gilbert Levi Hammon (1870-1870) [no issue]
• Byram Rosel Hammon (1871-1871) [no issue]
• Polly Adaline Hammon (1874-1923)
• Jane Hammon (1875-1952)
• Levi Derlin Hammon (1877-1904)
• Henrietta Hammon (1879-1883) [no issue]
• George Augustus Hammon (1881-1883) [no issue]
• Lettie Matilda Hammon (1883-1975)
• Amasa Marion Hammon (1884-1957)
• Rhoda Luann Hammon (1886-1945)
• Betsy Robena Hammon (1889-1975)
• John Wallace Hammon (1892-1892) [no issue]
• Frank Leslie Hammon (1893-1968)
• Ethel Hammon (1896-1987)
• Daniel Glen Hammon (1898-1953)

Parents

• Gilbert Belnap (1821-1899)
• Adaline Knight (1831-1919)

Last update:  27 Jun 2020