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May 19, 1992 · Birth. 3 Mar 1912. Death. 19 May 1992 (aged 80) Burial. Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden. Ruleville, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map. Memorial ID. 76082345.
Perry “Pap” Hamer as a young man. Photo courtesy of Marilyn Mays. Pap Hamer cooking cracklins’. Photo by: Maria Varela. While we have found no records to date, of Pap’s first wife, there are records that indicate he had a daughter, Linnie Smoote, who was born on June 14, 1950, in Ruleville, MS, outside of his marriage to Fannie Lou.
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Feb 4, 2023 · In 1944, Fannie Lou married Perry "Pap" Hamer, a local tractor driver who worked on W.D. Marlow's plantation. (Note: Some sources name him as "B.D. Marlowe.") According to the National Women's History Museum, Hamer joined Pap on Marlow's plantation in Ruleville until 1962.
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Mar 15, 1977 · She married Perry “Pap” Hamer, a young man who had plowed the cotton fields that the Hamer family planted, in 1945 and they adopted two daughters, Jean and Virgie Ree. Jean died of...
Mar 15, 2024 · With the support of her husband, Perry, known as Pap, Hamer surrounded herself with children, taking in her first, Dorothy Jean, when she was just eight-months-old. Sometime later, she...
When she was twenty-seven, she married Perry “Pap” Hamer. They tried for a family, but Hamer had several miscarriages, so they adopted two girls. In 1961, a white doctor gave Hamer a hysterectomy without her consent while she was undergoing surgery to remove a uterine tumor.
In the early 1940s she married Perry Hamer, known as Pap, and worked alongside him at W.D. Marlow’s plantation near Ruleville, in Sunflower County. Hamer’s ability to read and write earned...
