John Hand and his progeny in the New World were daring and brave entrepreneurs who exemplified the Yankee "can do" attitude.
With other founding families in Long Island, Cape May and then Indiana, they laid a foundation for us all.
Jehu Hand is a 1984 graduate of New York University School of Law. Jehu has a lifelong interest in family history,dating from his teens when he first read a history complied by his father Charles R. Hand and cousin Anna Laura Brown.
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Thomas Stites Hand was one of the founders of the Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church in New Albany, under the jurisdiction of the Third Presbyterian Church. Evergreens to the left of the cemetery were placed there in 1949 in his memory. The church cemetery is full of headstones of the Hand and Emery families; the Emerys were apparently much more prosperous than the Hand, based on the headstones.