The gates are adorned with the year 1913 but the cemetery was deeded by Hiram Hammer in 1882. The first burial, however, was that of an infant named Allan McGinness in 1877.
Hammer, in which about 500 people are buried in its 156 lots, is located in Section 3 of Franklin Township.
Some of the Hammer family later became early settlers of Sedro-Woolley, Wash.
At right is a lovely little tombstone at Hammer for a child named Vera Meek. Her father had moved away from Lincoln County but had this stone special ordered and shipped back to mark the grave of his daughter, who died in 1895. The Lincoln Beacon of 23 December 1897 reported: "While living on a farm in Madison township some two years ago Mr. and Mrs. Milford G. Meek lost their little baby girl, Vera, then just past one year old. Afterwards, the father went to Ohio, but he did not forget the precious spot where lay his only child. He recently had a very pretty little white marble monument made and sent on to his father to be put at the head of the little grave. It came last week and the writer happened to be present when it was unpacked. On its top is a pair of little shoes, one standing in a natural position, the other laying on its side. They suggest the age and size of the little sleeper whose death meant so much to that home. The design and good workmanship make it a very neat little stone. It shows the tender affection of the father for his child and proves him to be a man of good impulses."