Name/Title
AU Lambert, Elsie Pauline [Warfel] - 1976-10-01 letter to Richard Lambert HarrisEntry/Object ID
1989.1.84Context
5361 Park Awe.
Bethel Park, Pa. 15102
l Oct. 1, 1976
Dear Richard:
Today is a rainy day and I hope by afternoon it will have cleared up. I am at home this week because I had a cold and am net entirely well yet. You wonder why I am writing to you. That I will explain later. I just want to say that yesterday Charles, my brother, had open heart surgery in Cincinnati.
Their address is:
C.O. Lambert
5767 Belfast Rd.
R.D. #3
Batavia, 0hio, 45103
Charles had been in the hospital for 2 weeks previous to the operation. H e had to take so much nitroglycerine that he could hardly stand.. it. He had heart pains. I am all right I guess. I don't set the world on fire but I get along. I have no car so I have to go on public transportation and taxi. Lucile is not always too good. She can't play golf any more. Right now she seems to be having the flu. My family are O K but did have colds. Bill is not home. He is in Atlantic City at a big commercial show. He took 57 people there from his Co and planned the whole thing from their Co himself....display as big as a house. He is head of advertising for his Co. We now have Estella, my daughter in law (beautiful young woman), Richard 8, Stephen 6 1/2 and Dana (a girl) who is almost 3.
They live at S93 W 23 155
River Oaks Dr.
Big Bend, Wis. 53103
This place they live was made out of farms. It is just outside the village of Big Bend but in Vernon Township. They had an acre of ground as does everyone. All the houses are different.
Well I am writing to you to see whether you have a packet of letters from the 30s. Ernest Lambert, Oscar's son, had them but sent them to Aunt Bertha after dad's death and after I had them. Unfortunately Ernest who must now be 82, same age as Earl Hopkins was, thot they would be safer with Bertha. I should have kept them. Dad had these letters from all the Lambert cousins here, Missouri, California etc. Well I copied each letter in long hand and therefore have them in that form in a notebook but I do not want tp part with these copies. Bette Knapp (Mrs) who lives in Tulsa Oklahoma is writing a genealogy of the Lambert family mostly because her father Ernest wants her to. I only know Bette thru correspondence and that by chance. She wrote me addressed Mt Vernon, Ill where I lived 2 years 10 years after I moved away. The woman who bot my house (our house I should say) got the letter and recognized my name and got my address from my best friend in Mt Vernon who is new deceased. She sent it on to me. I had many friends in Mt Vernon altho I only lived there 2 years. I saw grace Selby Smith and one of her daughters, now deceased, while I was there. They lived South at Ozark.
Bette Knapp's address:
Mrs George Knapp
3145 E. 42nd St.
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74105
I think her children are in college now.
Anyhow Ernest wrote a letter many years ago and said that he sent the letters to Bertha. I don't know why he did not keep them because I went to so much bother to copy them. Now I want Bette to have them. They explain all about the various families. Even there was one from a grand daughter of Chalkley and he was
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one of the older brothers who went to California. Do you know that in my father's sketch of the family he even left out Chalkley. Chalkley and Barclay and Elwood were all named after Quaker divines. Mayne Ewing did not even know about that. She said her brother Chalkley was named after an uncle. I studied the Quakers and the Lambert and Stanton families in Philadelphia at the Penna Historical Society and Swarthmore College. We were on the campus at Swarthmore at times and went to the Methodist Church in Swarthmore. Well if you have those letters send them to Bette or to me. The Lamberts lived all over California. I think the Lamberts in Oklahoma were rather well to do because one of them owned an oil well.
I have had some correspondence with Malcolm Smith in Washington D.C. about the Lambert history. John Mayne knows them and there is another cousin lives there. ....I guess another Smith.
John I am 75 now and today is Dick's birthday. He would have been 72. He died in 1970. I begin to think about ancestors and such things. I keep up my regular occupations but try to get out of being an officer. I belong to one of the largest churches in the Pgh area Mt Lebanon United Methodist. Mt Lebanon is the next suburb and we joined the church there in 1943. I still own my own home in a setting of beautiful trees (a brick house).
I don't go back to Westerville very often. Tried to get Ellen to visit me this year but she seems to be too busy. She still has her house too. She is still active in the Music Club and in State Music Clubs but I don't think she plays in public any more.
I think it is about time cousins got closer together. I write to Marie Lambert once in a while. She is the only one of their family left. She uses her unmarried name altho years ago she was married once. She lives:
521 High St.
New Haven, Ind. 46774
Natalie lives in a Presbyterian Home and does not especially like it. You know Ruth is dead. Her 2 children live in Wooster, O. Natalie and Charles seem to get along fine near Cincinnati.
Did Dans move to N. Carolina. I have not heard all year.
Love,
{Pauline}
