Near Mussel Shoals Baptist Church, 8 mi. E. of Owenton, KY 330
Born in Virginia, 1760, John Hammon was a Revolutionary War soldier. He served in the battle of King's Mountain, and was also a defender of Bryan's Station in Kentucky, 1782. Shortly afterwards, Hammon joined Colonel Benjamin Logan's expedition against Indian towns in Ohio. Helped establish Mussel Shoals Baptist Church in 1817; buried in churchyard, 1868.