El Capitan above Short CreekHistorical Short Creek

J. M. (Marion) Hammon

People

In the record

Portrait of J. M. (Marion) Hammon

d. 1988

J. M. (Marion) Hammon

Published accounts name J. Marion Hammon as a member of the priesthood council who, after a division in 1984, helped form the congregation that became the community at Centennial Park.

Published accounts of a later council division say that in February 1984 Leroy S. Johnson released Hammon — named there as J. Marion Hammon — and Alma A. Timpson from the priesthood council. They formed a separate congregation, first called the Second Ward, whose first priesthood meeting was held on 13 May 1984 a few miles from town, and which became the community at Centennial Park.4 Those accounts give his death as 1988.5

On 9 November 1942 he signed the Declaration of Trust for the United Effort Plan as one of the first trustees. The 1998 restatement of the trust recites that he resigned on 31 August 1984.

Appearances

1960

  1. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Salt Lake City 2 recorded parts: Part 1 2:10 · Part 2 51:10Full meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 2:18:0553:20
  2. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 2:49:2649:06
  3. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 2:38:1152:18
  4. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 2:53:1254:53
  5. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Zitting home, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Zitting home, Salt Lake City · 2:40:2645:26
  6. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 1:48:414:14
  7. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Short CreekFull meeting: General meeting, Short Creek · 2:31:0932:01
  8. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Zitting home, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Zitting home, Salt Lake City · 2:40:3823:09
  9. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 1:59:1259:36
  10. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Zitting home, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Zitting home, Salt Lake City · 13:5347:31
  11. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 2:30:4451:50
  12. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 30:511:05:46
  13. TalkJ. M. Hammon, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 3:02:2653:21

1961

  1. MeetingCanada Conferences compilationfilenames span August, October, and December · The filename names those 1961 months; the recording does not, by itself, fix a single conference date.1:14:33
  2. MeetingSalt Lake general meetingJ. M. Hammon58:05
  3. FuneralFuneral of Susan Alice Bell Clark Steed, Salt Lake City53:09
  4. FuneralFuneral recorded as Grandfather Carl O. Holm, Salt Lake CityThe recordings do not settle how the deceased “Grandfather Carl O. Holm” is related to Carl O. N. Holm, who speaks in 1961 meetings.28:28

He is identified as a speaker in the Salt Lake general meetings of 8 January, 22 January, 19 February, 5 March, 19 March, 2 April, 7 May, 21 May, 4 June, 18 June, 2 July, 6 August, 17 September, 19 November, and 17 December, in addition to the recordings listed above. See the 1961 year page.

The 1961 tapes do not give a formal biography, but they show how he was known. Speakers address him as Marion, including in the meetings of 8 January and later in the year. On 19 February, a speaker refers to “Brother Marion’s repetition of what Brother Barlow had” said.1 On 19 November he mentioned something he had “said in Colorado City the other night.”2 In the 5 March meeting he remembered living with “Brother Barlow” in Short Creek, and he remembered Joseph W. Musser asking him a question in Idaho. He also spoke of John Y. Barlow in the past tense.3 Those passages are memories spoken in 1961; they are not dated biographies.

Sources

  1. Archive recordings, 1961: he is addressed as Marion in the Salt Lake general meetings, including 8 January and 19 February (“Brother Marion’s repetition of what Brother Barlow had” said). 19 February item.
  2. Remarks by J. M. Hammon, Salt Lake general meeting, 19 November 1961. Open the 1961 year.
  3. Remarks by J. M. Hammon, Salt Lake general meeting, 5 March 1961, remembering Joseph Musser, John Y. Barlow, and living with “Brother Barlow” in Short Creek. Open the item.
  4. Wikipedia, “Centennial Park group,” on the February 1984 release, the 13 May 1984 meeting, and the later Centennial Park congregation.
  5. Wikipedia, “Centennial Park group,” death in 1988.