Name/Title
AU Lambert, Elsie Pauline [Warfel] - 1973-10-31 letter to Mary Elizabeth 'Bette' KnappEntry/Object ID
2004.1.21Context
5361 Park Ave.
Bethel Park, Pa. 15102
Oct. 31, 1973
Dear Bette:
Your ambition as to family history makes me feel weak! I have a file here in the study where I keep things I am working on altho I think I put the family history away in the permanent drawer in my bedroom. I have 6 red and white files here on top of a low cabinet and I think every free day I will sort the stuff in them. Also I am supposed to head a committee for the church that goes into church history and so far I have never found the time to go up there and look in the room where they keep the stuff. So you see I am sort of buried. Our church is a big church.....keeps around 3,000 members ....Methodist...in the next suburb (Mt Lebanon) where we went to church for a good many years when we first moved from Cleveland Heights to Mt Lebanon. So when we came back here over l2 years ago we went back to that church. Cleveland Heights was where we knew and loved Mayme and Jeanette Ewing for a number of years.
Altho I am of the retirement age I still keep on with my organizations and I get pretty tired at times trying to keep up but it keeps ones mind alive I think.
I was interested in hearing about your father and mother and about David Ewing for he never keeps in touch with any of us. Altho Paul Selby was our first cousin of late years he seemed closer to Ellis' family than to his own as far as first cousins were concerned. When I was young we always felt as close to cousin Becky and Ed and Earl and Ellis and Norma as to our first cousins tho. The Hopkins family were Methodists and when we were growing up in Westerville O. where grandpa Daniel Webster Lambert and grandma Deborah Embree Lambert lived we went to the college church which was United Brethren. By tradition all of us or almost all went to Otterbein College. I went back in June for the 50th anniversary of my graduation from that school. They gave us duplicate diplomas on alumni day. Mine read Elsie Pauline Lambert as it had before and I was listed as Elsie and I never was called Elsie because when I was born my aunt, Elsie Maude Lambert, was still living. She married Wallin Reibel and they went as missionaries to Sierra Leone and she died soon after and she is buried there. By that time I was being called Pauline. Now in Westerville there are 2 Methodist churches....Church of the Savior and the college Church of the Master...because the U.B.s combined with the Methodists.
You asked me how I knew that Winnifred Cartwright had a still born child on the way to 0hio. Well in the Quaker records under her name it said "infant" and when it said that the child died because otherwise the name of the infant was given. They belonged to a Quaker Meeting in Winchester Virginia for a year as I remember and then moved on to Ohio. I cannot be sure that she got to Ohio but as I remembered it she did. They also lived at Redstone Old Fort (now Brownsville, Pa.) for a year and belonged to a Quaker Meeting there. While in Brownsville they laid out the map of the land they were going to take up in Ohio near Barnesville. I think Winnifred lived to get to Ohio but I cannot be sure of that. I believe she died soon after getting there. But her husband Abner lived on for a good many years. Or was his name Abner? I believe it was and his son was Abner too. I don't have the papers here.
That Abner married Elizabeth Stanton and they were my great great grandparents.
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Your great great grandfather and grandmother were my great grandparents as your father is of my generation.
As soon as I get my records out again I will let you know about the 2 years but as I remember it Winnifred was in Winchester a year and in Redstone Old Fort a year. Last Saturday a couple I know very well invited me to go with them to the mountains of Penna. to see the leaves. We went all together about 130 miles in the afternoon. We passed thru Brownsville on the way back and on the old Cumberland Rt 40 we stooped at a very old Inn for dinner now called Century Inn. It is a great place to go. I imagine our ancestors passed it many a time. George Washington stayed there. We saw Ft Necessity last Saturday also. Pittsburgh was a Fort also when Ft Necessity was built. It was Ft Pitt. The people took their wagons apart and loaded all their goods on flat boats and got to Ohio that way. The folks landed at Wheeling and got to Barnesville that way.
It's interesting about the Sayre line.
I noticed in the Philadelphia Historical Society library that books of sailings were of help. New Jersey also had a lot of those. That told on which ship people came.
I am not a genealogist. I just played around with it. I was a professional librarian but never took courses in genealogy....just what library school gave us.
I don't know whether I have any pictures of my grandfather's home in Southern O. Recently I got a picture of their house in Westerville and of them in front of it. You know the house in Southern Ohio burned down and the one my father tried to restore was next door to it.
John Mayne is much interested in the ancestors but I don't think he ever tried to look them up in the Library of Congress. He is my first cousin the son of Hannah Lambert Mayne. He is my age and graduated from H.S. and college with me in Westerville. I saw him and his wife this past June. But he has not been too well....was quite thin and had had a heart attack several years ago. He is retired. ..He was a minister.
The day of the alumni luncheon in the afternoon all the relatives went together to the Otterbein Cemetery to see the condition of the graves. John and Ann Mayne, Lucile Lambert Webner and her husband Leroy. Mary Sue Webner Smith and her husband Fred and their 5 boys, myself, Daniel Harris and his wife Aletha (from Florida) Phil Charles and his wife Dorothea from Guam. Buried in that cemetery are:
Loretta Adams Lambert (my mother)
William Otterbein Lambert (my father)
Daniel Webster Lambert (my grandfather)
Deborah Embree Lambert (my grandmother)
John Mayne Sr
Hannah Lambert Mayne,
Their daughter Helen Mayne Rousch
Their son Horace Mayne
Bertha Lambert Harris and her husband Joseph Harris
Theodore Otterbein Harris their son
I will look out for genealogical talks in Pittsburgh.
I visited my son and daughter in law in August in Big Bend Wis. They are William Theodore Warfel and Estella Carter Warfel and their sons Richard 5 and Stephen 3. I go to my sisters in Ohio for Thanksgiving.
Sincerely,
{Pauline}
