Name/Title
AU Harris, Paul Joseph Jr. - 1990-10-15 letter to Elizabeth Anne (Mayne) VequistEntry/Object ID
1991.2.18Context
3923 Seeley Avenue
Downers Grove, IL 60515
October 15, 1990
Elizabeth Anne Mayne Vequist
1720 John F. Kennedy Drive
Pittsburg, KS 66762
Dear Betty,
It was really great talking with you last night. I am so delighted to have found you and look forward to meeting others in your branch of the Lambert family. I'll cut to the chase and get down to business. Enclosed, you will find:
A Family Group Record for Daniel Webster Lambert and Deborah Vernon Embree with current documentation (thirteen pages). I think you will enjoy looking over this since you weren't real familiar with all of the children and their order.
A Descendancy Chart for Hannah Lucy Lambert, as complete on this date.
A Descendancy Chart for Bertha Elizabeth Lambert, so you can see where I fit in the scheme of things.
Family Group Records for Helen Mayne; your father, John Chapman Mayne; and what I know to be all of the marriages of his descendants. This is probably incomplete in your brother's, Robert, branch of the family.
As I told you on the telephone, my goal is to document and establish contact with all the descendants of Daniel Webster Lambert. A great deal of work has already been accomplished. You can make a gigantic contribution to this effort by simply going over what I have sent you about your branch of the family and bringing it up to date so it can be entered in a computer database for preservation. As complete entries as possible concerning names and places of events is important. Also, addresses and phone numbers on anyone who is living would be appreciated so we can share collected information on the family history. If the individual in question doesn't mind submitting their Social Security number, that could be extremely useful to future genealogists.
If you think it would be easier for you to run copies of your own records for me than to fill in the sheets I sent you, then that would be fine. You decide what is going to be easiest for you.
After we talked last night, I was looking at a copy of a cemetery record from Otterbein and noticed that on 20 Feb 1919 a Mayne infant was buried in the same grave in which Dwight Mayne was buried in 1975. Do you think this was Horace's stillborn or did Dwight have one also?
Looking forward to hearing from you sometime soon. Please give your mother my best, I know our fathers were good friends.
Sincerely,
Paul J. Harris, Jr.
