History of Isom Hampton

Isom Solomon Hampton was born 30 May 1860, in Grayson County, Virginia to Ephriam and Sarah Jane (Jennings) Hampton. Isom and his mother were living in the household of his brother William in the 1860 Census of Grayson County, Virginia. Isom married Mary (Mek) Emma Kirk 25 December 1893 in Grayson County, Virginia. Isom's place in Virginia was a hilly place on the Fish Pond Road. There is nothing there now except the gate posts.

In 1901, Isom moved his familyto a 160 Acre homestead in Port, Washita County, Oklahoma. The main source of living there was raising cotton. Three more children were added to the family, Wright, Blanche Cora and John. Their only girl Blanche Cora was born on the 7th of June 1903 and passed away the 18th January 1906 with pneumonia. She is buried in the Port Cemetery. In 1906, Isom joined the Bethel Primitive Baptist church near Elk City, Oklahoma.

In 1911 Isom moved his family to Laclede County, Missouri. Isom rented a house in Lebanon, Missouri until he could get the house fixed up on the farm. They didn't live there very long until they moved to a farm which was closeto Philipsburg, MO. They mostly raised corn there. Isom also cut and hewed ties out of the timber that he sold to the railroad.

In 1913, Jones Kirk, Mary's brother, talked Isom into filing on a half-section Kincaid in Cherry County, Nebraska, so Isom went there, filed the Kincaid and built a small tar paper house with a dirt floor. His family arrived in Mullen by train on the 13th of December 1913. In the Spring of 1916, Isom sold his place to Jones Kirk and bought a section of land six miles west of Mullen, Nebraska. In 1923, Isom sold this place to Homer and Della Crain. He then purchased two sections of land northwest of Mullen, in Cherry County, fixed up the house and moved his family in.

Then in 1936 he and Mary moved to a farm near Bolivar, Missouri. Isom placed his membership in Harmony Primitive Baptist Church west of Bolivar in 1937 and remained a devoted member of the congregation until his death on the 14th of April 1955 at Bolivar, Missouri. He is buried at Barren Creek Cemetery not far from Harmony Church. Mary Emma died 30 August 1958 and is also buried at Barren Creek Cemetery.

Isom and Mary's children are: Carlie Curtis, Ephram Herman, Joseph Glee, Wright Kirk, Blanche Cora and John Isom.