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Source for: Margret Ann Dennis, 4 Nov 1845 - 17 Dec 1869
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General Source: S5
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Source for: John Lamb, 1816 - Jan 1885
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Death source: S196Page: pp. 225-226.
Note: The year of his death is listed in this deed book as Jan 1885.
General Source: S5General Source: S197Text: Lamb, John, age 44, born Tennessee
Ann, age 44, born S.C.
James Houston, age 17, born Alabama
Mary A., age 18
John J., age 16
David, age 13
Robert, age 11
General Source: S198Note: These dates were found in research by Susan and are more correct than The Record of My Ancestry.
Text: James Houston Lamb, born Aug 10 1839 in Waterloo, Lauderdale, AL; married Ann M. Drummond. Mary Ann Lamb, born 25 April 1842 in Waterloo, Lauderdale, AL; married William Thomas Clements. John James Lamb, born 10 Dec 1843 in Waterloo, Lauderdale, AL; married Mary Ann Lindley. Daivd L. Lamb, born 25 Dec 1846 in Waterloo, Lauderdale, AL; married Mary Clements. Robert Marshall Lamb born 1848 in Waterloo, Lauderdale, AL; married Clarinda Elizabeth Dacus.
General Source: S4Page: p. 7
Note: This book also has John Lamb Jr. married to Mrs. Cook with children Dela, Susan, Ruth. No mention of Rebecca Cardwell as wife.
Text: James Houston born 10 Aug 1839. Mary Ann born 1842. John Jones born 10 Dec 1843. David born 1847. Robert Marshall born 1848.
General Source: S199Note: File Folder Greene Co., Ar, History and Families book.
Text: John Lamb, Jr. was born in 1816 in Williamson County, Tennessee. He was the son of John Lamb, Sr. and Cloey who settled in Lauderdale County, Alabama about 1821. John Lamb, Jr. married on November 1, 1898 in Waterloo, Lauderdale County, Alabama to Ann Houston, born 1816 in Newberry County, South Carolina, who is the daughter of Ross Houston, Sr. and Mary Ann. In 1851, John Lamb, Jr. and several of his sibilings moved their families to Greene County, Arkansas: sister-in-law, Rhonda Hardin Lamb, widow of Morgan Lamb; James Lamb and wife Rebecca Houston; Mary Lamb who later married John Wilson Willcockson/Wilcoxson; brother-in-law, Ruben Adams and wife Sarah Lamb; and possibly others.
John and Ann Houston Lamb had five children, all born in Lauderdale County, Alabama: James Houston Lamb bron August 10, 1839; Mary Ann Lamb born April 25, 1842; John Jones Lamb born December 10, 1843; David L. Lamb born December 25, 1846 who married Mary Clements; and Robert Marshall Lamb born 1848 who married Clarinda Elizabeth Dacus, daughter of Pascal L. Dacus and Amanda A. O'Dell. Ann Houston Lamb died in Greene County, Arkansas about 1871 and was buried in the Lamb Cemetery. Her grave is not marked as her tombstone was destroyed.
John Lamb, Jr. remarried between 1872 and 1873 in Greene County, Arkansas to Rebecca Caedwell, the widow of Henry Cook, Jr. They had Three Daughters as follows: Della Lamb born about 1873; Susan Lamb born December 10, 1874; and Ruth Ann Lamb born about 1876. Rebecca Cardwell (Cook) Lamb died about 1876 shortly after the birth of Ruth. John then married a third time to Elizabeth A. Travis. on December 28, 1878, in Craighead County, Arkansas, there are no children from this third marriage. John Lamb, Jr. owned a farm between Finch and Lorado where he lived and worked for over 30 years until his death in January of 1885. He was buried in the Lamb Cemetery on the family farm but his tombstone was destroyed. When John died, he left three minors: Della, Susan, and Ruth Lamb. Since his widow, Elizabeth, was not the mother of his children it is understandable that she might not have wanted to be responsible for them. David Lamb, Jr., son of John Lamb, Jr. and half brother to these little girls, was appointed their gruardian on February 4, 1885. All three young daughters lived to adulthood, married, and left descendants in Greene County, Arkansas. Of the five children of John and Ann Houston Lamb, James Houston Lamb and John Jones Lamb moved their families to Coos County, Oregon while Mary Ann Lamb, wife of William Thomas Clements, Davis L. Lamb, and Robert Marshall Lamb remained in Greene County, Arkansas. May of thier descendents still live in Greene County, Arkansas today.
The lamb Cemetery is located on a reserved one acre plot in the NW/4 NE/4 of Section 30-16N-4E, in Greene County, Arkansas, known as the old Ellis Farm which was later sold to Paul Arnold. The forty acres of land where the cemetery is located was originally purchased by John Lamb (jr.) as a United States Patent dated March 1, 1856. During John's lifetime he conveyed this same tract of land to his brother, James Lamb.
General Source: S200Page: JRC's Lamb, John Sr. file
Note: See John Lamb Sr.'s sources for full extraction of the Lamb genealogy in this letter.
Date: 7 Jun 1986