Name/Title
AU Lambert, Ernest Chester - 1960-03-10 letter to Elsie Pauline (Lambert) WarfelEntry/Object ID
2004.1.28Context
March 10, 1960.
Mrs R. M. Warfel,
200 North Seventh St,
Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
Dear Mrs Warfel:
Last summer I visited my aunt, Mrs Mary Lambert Ewing, at Cleveland Heights. Earlier she had gotten me interested in trying to complete a short story on the Lambert Family from material collected by my father, Oscar A. Lambert. At that time she gave me a copy of the Record of the Lambert Family in the USA. I have enjoyed reading it and think it very good. It was not doubt written by you from information compiled by your father. My father left about the same information since they had been working together on the subject.
On a motor trip last summer Mrs Lambert and I visited most of the places mentioned on the records that I have. We were at Raleigh, Trenton, New Bern, Beaufort, Mattamuskett and Elizabeth City all in North Carolina. After two weeks in Williamsburg and Washington we stopped for a visit with Aunt Mayme and took her and Jeanette with us to St Clairsville, Barnesville, Marietta, Chesterhill, Plantsville, McConnelsville and Columbus. We checked many records and had some professional services but out time was so limited for that kind of a job that I was a little disappointed with the results. I obtained many records to prove statements made by someone in the material I have but was not able to locate many important links. Some records have been destroyed by fire and some we just overlooked in our haste, but I found very little variance with my information when the records were found. I am in touch with a professional genealogist at Raleigh, where they have compiled most of the available records of North Carolina and I hope to eventually receive more information. I find the work very interesting but a larger job than a person can give to it.
Mrs Smith of Ozark gave me your address and sent the old letters to me. They are very interesting and of considerable value but I do not have the time to follow thru with them and do not want to keep some one else from doing so. I will be glad to return them to you or Mrs Smith or anyone interested or will keep them in my files for future reference.
I have not been able to find information on John Lambert the father of Abner II and wonder if you have any facts to connect him to General Lambert. I have English tradition beyond the general but no connection to him, and I wish I had.
Rev. Daniel Lambert married my father and mother and our family has always had a great respect for Uncle Daniel and his wonderful family.
Sincerely yours,
Ernest C. Lambert
