Name/Title
AU Lambert, Elsie Pauline [Warfel] - 1974-06-11 letter to Mary Elizabeth 'Bette' KnappEntry/Object ID
2004.1.22Context
Mrs. Richard M. Warfel
5361 Park Avenue
Bethel Park, Pa. 15102
Tuesday June 11, 1974
Dear Bette:
I started to write this on the typewriter and it did not work right due to the fact that I did not change the ribbon right. I guess I have the wrong kind of ribbon. Anyhow I will have to get someone to help me fix it.
This is the 4th anniversary of the death of my husband, Richard (June 10) and always a sad time for me. Today is a cool day for a change. We got a lot of wind from the west last night. Everything around my house is lush with flowers, trees and shrubbery so it all will need trimming after the flowers have gone (mock orange blossoms and other white flowers).
Last week, Monday and Tuesday, my sister Lucile Lambert Webner and her husband drove here from Orrville, O. I had not seen them since last Thanksgiving when I was at their house. They spent Feb & March in Florida at Cape Coral near Ft Myers. I did not go to Florida but our first cousin Natalie Lambert Hamilton Schmick was at Ft Myers. She has been a widow for about
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3 years. She lives in the Mariemont section of Cincinnati. My brother Charles Lambert and his wife Bernie see her often when she is at home. She is my uncle Ira and aunt Emma Lamberts daughter. They lived in Tulsa over when he taught in a college and she had a younger sister, Ruth Lambert Dickerson who died about 2 years ago. She lived in Wooster, O. near Orrville for many years.
I am sorry about the death of your mother. It always is a great shock. I miss my mother even now and she died in Aug. 1930 before I was married. In Nov 1974 she would have been 100 years old had she lived. My father would have been 100 next Feb. 25th. You have plenty to do looking after your family. Do you have brothers and sisters? If you said I do not remember. Congratulations on being a grandmother. I was a grandmother again last Jan. 12th when Estella and Bill had a baby girl named Dana Lynn Warfel. They live in Big Bend Wis. and he works in Waukesha. I went to their house for Richard's 6th birthday which was April 24th. I stayed 2 weeks so saw my grand daughter.
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Stephen was 4 last Dec. 29th. Lucile's grand children (10 of them) range in age from 2 1/2 to 19. Two grand daughters Pamela Lynn Webner (19) and Denise Nanette Webner 18 are in college, Bowling Green and Miami of Ohio.
Lucile and Leroy and Charles and Bernice went to alumni day at Otterbein College (Westerville, O) last Saturday bit I did not go. I celebrated my 50th anniversary of graduation last year. Charles was very sick this spring, pneumonia and heart failure but is all right now he says.
The set of the Quaker Index I consulted in Swarthmore College Friends Genealogical Library and the Historical Society Library in Philadelphia. I saw one volume in Mt Pleasant O last summer where there is a Quaker Museum. The Friends Meeting House has been restored there and Lucile & Leroy saw that. There used to be a school there (H.S.) but it is not there any more. Some of grandpa Lambert's first cousins went there to school. The Quakers were great for education.
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There used to be a Quaker Boarding school in Barnesville, O. (the place the Lamberts first went to in Ohio). Swarthmore College is Co-Ed and founded by the Hicksite Branch of the church and Bryn Mawr and Haverford were founded by the Orthodox Quakers. Two big boarding schools (pre school thru H.S.) in Philadelphia are Friends Central and Friends Select. They are day schools also but tuition schools, considered better than the Episcopal Schools there. There are also a number of other Quaker tuition schools around Philadelphia. Educated people in that area make sacrifices to send their children to private schools thru the grades and H.S. Some areas have good public schools (Main Line such as Wayne, St Daniels, etc) Upper and Lower Marion also have good public schools but Philadelphia schools are rated law. Germantown years ago was OK (had girls H.S. and boy H.S.) Today its about all colored — same as N. Phil, W. Philadelphia, S. Philadelphia.
We escaped that problem. Our son
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went to fine H.S.s (2 of them) Mt Lebanon a suburb of Pittsburgh (H.S. called the Taj Mahal of H.S.s!) It's so elaborate it has a planetarium now. He finished in Oakmont another fine public school in the Pgh area where they play the national open golf games at Oakmont Country Club.
We lived in Morton for 6 1/2 years near Swarthmore and people there sent their college prep students to Swarthmore H. S. (good prep for Swarthmore almost on the campus).
Some day I'll get the family history out again. I've been busy at other things this spring and have ot felt too well either so just put it away. Heraldry books have coats of arms of families of English ancestry. The Lamberts have 2 - one for each of two families (one name meant the Lanel is Bright, the other Lamb herder). At least our branch came from Normandy in 1066 with Wm the Conqueror so the name was French first.
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There are Lamberts in Anderson, Ind. who never were English - came directly from Normandy. They gave Lambert Hall at Otterbein College (Music Hall). They used to make the Lambert automobile a fine car but too expensive to continue to produce. My mother was an Adams - ancestor 1st cousin Pres Adams - and that also is an English coat of arms. I told you our family is well represented on the Otterbein campus as far as names are concerned (Lambert Hall and Mayne Hall). Horace Mayne (aunt Hannah Lambert Mayne's oldest son (now deceased)). Horace gave Mayne Hall (a dorm) in memory of his parents and aunt Hannah's picture hangs there.
Mabel Dunn Hopkins (Earl's wife) taught violin at Otterbein in Lambert Hall for years.
Generations have a way of getting crossed up. I could have great grand children instead of grand children as I will be 73 July 25th. John Mayne, my first cousin my age, has several great grandchildren.
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I was married at 29. My son was married at 35. I had him at the age of 31 and he had his first at the age of 36. His wife is 10 yrs younger than he is.
My great great grandfather according to my father had 16 children and 3 wives. Abner b 1890 (or 91) was a younger son. Grandpa Daniel one of his sons was a younger son. So was your grandfather Reese. So it goes. (My brother Charles has no children). My grandfather Lambert was b Jan 1837 and my great grandmother Harris was born in 1836 (on mother's side).
The name [Lambert] has run out as far as grandpa is concerned except for Alva's sons children, Claire and Frank and Glenn.
Well this has run on and on. So I'll get it in the mail.
Affectionately
{Pauline}
