A grave marking ceremony honoring American Revolutionary War Soldier Phillip Hamman was held on December 06, 2020 at Valley Head Cemetery in Valley Head, Alabama. Over 60 family descendants, DAR Members, SAR Members and guests attended the ceremony. Evelyn Newsome, DAR member of American Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Phillip Hamman Chapter in Fort Payne, Alabama coordinated the grave marking ceremony. The ceremony was a tribute to his life, his service to America and homecoming to his family of descendants.
Phillip Hamman was born in 1750, in the Upper Rhineland area of Germany known as the Palatinate. He arrived in Colonial America at Philadelphia, on October 16, 1772, and immediately settled in the Greenbrier Valley of Virginia.