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fRio^rnphical Skt'tch of Claylon ?Iiiunbert.Mr. Lambert was born in Warren coun- j\tv. Ohio, in the venr 1802—came to Imli- j * • 1ana in 1820. Previous to bis coining, his j father had entered, in his name, the south ; cast quarter of section ?», township 1-1.ranee 13.' situated in what is now Water-». •loo township.In the vear 1821, he was married to j♦ fKhoda Lee, hv whom, he had 11 children, !7 • »only three of whom are now living. The j mother and two daughters dying in one j year, of eonsiunptian. jMr. Lambert lives in the first house I built on the farm; the land had been leas- \ ed out, and about forty acres were cleared j when he took possession in 1820. lie has j made some additions and improvements to | the house, but the same first building is J now occupied by him as a residence. 1The land was entered upon the install- j mem plan, at $2.00 per acre—the law was j afterward changed, and the price reduced j to $1.25 per acre cash down. In the year j 1850. Mr. Lambert was married to his second wife, a widow Pierce, sister to his first wife, by whom he has had no children. Mrs. Lambert has been very unfortunate, having had both her lower limbs fractured, j On the 5th of September, 1848, a wagon j overturned in which she was riding, and her left ankle w*is broken at the joint. Again, some years after, she slipped and j fell oiT of her feet and fractured her right •hip. sMr. Lambert informs us that on Satur- j*dav, Julv 4th, 1824, a Mr. James Looney, ;• 7 • fwhile hunting his cow on the Lambert ;*farm, was caught by a falling tree and killed. The body was not found until the : Monday following, and consequently was in an advanced state of decomposition. • Sxui after Mr. Lambert settled here, a hear started out on the war path, and on! the v.*;»v Mopped at a house over in the I edge of Wayne county, ate a few pigs,huirsred the dotrs. and tried to make him- :*. 1self sociable generally. The man of the ; house being absent, and the lady fearing he might want to embrace her and the rest of the family, took down her husband’s gun and shot the brute. On another occasion, another War started out on a walk around, but tailing to hide his tracks, they were discovered by old Tommy Simpson, who mounting his horse armed with an *• old flint-lock gun, took bruin’s trail, and ! the next day the Simpson family had bear ■ meat for dinner, and being a generous old j gentleman of lt;4ve olden time,” the neigh- \ bors received a liberal share.Our narrator and the subject of the j above sketch, is a Democrat in politics : and a member of the Methodist Episcopal *Church. iIn closing, we wish to say that we hope I to visit all the old citizens of the county, ; and we will be glad to receive from each, a full history of their early trials and experiences in the first settlement of the county, and wc say to our readers, we hope to be able to make our articles more interesting as we proceed.
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Connersville Examiner
Connersville, Indiana, US
Wed, Nov 29, 1876
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