(L to R) Vestal Hamm, Zora Hamm, Basil Ham, Ira Hamm, (front) Versie Hamm, Carl Hamm
Rev. Vestal Emerson Hamm was born in Rowan County, Kentucky on 3 May 1913, the son of Rev. Basil Hamm and Missouri Lee Blanton. Like his father, Vestal was a minister of the Christian Holiness Church. He married Gracie Ethel Ross on 9 Nov 1935. Rev. Vestal Emerson Hamm died on 6 Dec 1997 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky. Gracie Ethel (Ross) Hamm died in Morehead, Rowan, Kentucky on 9 May 2001. They are buried in Sardis Cemetery in Rowan County, Kentucky.
Rev. Vestal Emerson Hamm and wife Gracie Ethel Ross