Name/Title
AU Lambert, Luella Mae [Williams] - 1995-02-22 letter to Paul J. Harris Jr.Entry/Object ID
1996.1.35Context
February 22, 1995
Mr. Paul J. Harris
3923 Seeley
Downers Grove IL 60515
Dear Paul:
Thank you for the computer workup on Elwood Lambert. (Also, for the Thanksgiving greeting we received on the answering machine. We were in California at the time.) While in Calif., we looked around in Whittier and visited the Library -- couldn't find anything on Elwood, but the Quakers founded Whittier and that story was interesting.
We found the graves of Reece and Lucy, but not Elwood and Phoebe, in the Rose Hills Memorial Park, a huge place on the hillside, the size evidenced by the fact that we were sent to gate #14 to get to the graves we wanted. They have all the services needed with regards to funerals there. Here is the information: Reece Stanton Lambert 1864- 1949 (the receptionist gave me the Stanton; on the stone marker is "S." ((flat marker)) )
Lucy E.(Eleanor) Lambert
1879 - 1954
Close by was George M. Lambert. He was by himself.
1849 - 1931
I looked (not real hard) for the errors you said might be in the workup, and the only one I found was that the marriage date for Elwood and Phoebe is the 24th on the original instead of the 25th. Pretty good job, I'd say. You are going to groan when you hear this, but I simply do not remember how much Lambert information I gave you in Chicago. I have so much work to do on the Lambert family and it's mostly organizing and putting them together. In order to accomplish that, I have given up two clubs and started staying home more. I have talked to Bette Knapp; I called her when the Christmas card came back from Tulsa. You knew George has died, didn't you? She seems to be very involved with her daughters and granddaughter right now and is thinking of moving them back to Tulsa. One daughter was just divorced, and the granddaughter is starting or going to start, college. She sounded better and stronger than she had, but right now, genealogy is not on her main list of things to do.
It looks like I will go to the Institute of Genealogy & Family Research at Samford Univ. in Birmingham in June. They are having a special interest class on TN, MO, KY, etc. and that's my main interest so thought I would take it. Also, this is our last year here as by the end of the year, we will be living in Phoenix AZ once again. Dutch will still work for Viking Range, so we will be traveling the West and Far West, as well as some in Canada. Dutch is going to Sweden in March to tour the ANSCO Dishwasher factory.
Also, we will be (God willing) in Chicago Sept. l6—2l for the National Assoc. of Service Managers Conference. It will be held in Oak Brook Hotel & Resort.
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During the first week of May the Nat'l Gen. Soc. is holding their Conference in the States in San Diego. I think I will go to that, too. One of their sessions is on the computer software of the Family Tree Maker. Well, Dutch thought I could use that, so he bought it for me, and I haven't even tried it. I really shy away from the computer, I'm afraid. Anyway, I think I'll try it by first taking that session. Dutch has installed it.
If you will make a simple list of the Lambert family members that you want, I promise I will either send what I have to you, or bring them in September. Do you have Benjamin yet? Another thing I have is a list of all the Monroes in the Union Army as shown in the Ohio Civil War Roster books. Are you interested? Believe it or not, I hired it done. The list shows where and when inducted, length of service and what group, if injured or not, and when and where mustered out, also age at date of induction. It also shows if, when and where killed.
Do you have very much on Daniel Webster's sister, Mary, who married James Edgerton? And also the brother who went to Kansas?
I am so sorry I can't send any more right now —— Surely this year will be a better one, genealogically speaking.
Most cordially, I remain, your cousin —
{Lu Williams}
Lu Williams
P.O. Box 426
Greenwood MS 38935-0426
