Name/Title
AU Lambert, Elsie Pauline [Warfel] - 1960-03-18 letter to Ernest C. LambertEntry/Object ID
2004.1.15Context
200 N. 7th St.
Mt Vernon, Ill.
March 18, 1960
Mr Ernest C. Lambert
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Dear cousin:
I call Mayme Ewing "aunt" also because all my Lambert aunts and uncles are now dead. We always knew Mayme and Becky quite well since they lived not too far from Westerville when I was at home there. We lived in Cleveland Heights for a while after I was married and saw Mayme and Jeanette often then and belonged to the same church that they do. You are the same relation to me as Jeanette is.
My research in the Penna Historical Society Library in Philadelphia was limited and in regard to New Jersey records their library was limited. Also it is well known among librarians that the library has a great backlog of uncatalogued books and materials. I consulted the Index to Quaker Meetings.... right now I cannot give you the author but it is a familiar set and indexes old meeting records, those which otherwise would be destroyed eventually. The Quakers were very thorough going regarding dates, places and names. All of my grandmother Lambert's family is listed as to full name, date of birth, place of birth etc. Their name was Embree. We drove to Embreeville one Sunday afternoon but could not identify the house in which the Embree ancestors lived. Members of the family lived there at least till the turn of the century. The gentleman listed in History of Chester Co. Pa. was a farmer and made malt for a living.... was a fine, gentle, useful member of the Quaker society of his time. However back of him several generations was the family from which my ancestry sprang. Their oldest son went to Ohio in 1800. There he met the Quakers from the other places, North Carolina and Georgia etc. Barnesville was their settlement town. Since my father's mimeographed record omits dates with regard to the later members of the Stanton family it becomes confusing when you try to tie it in with the Stanton Genealogy....the genealogy of the Stantons who went to North Carolina. There is part of the family that never left New Jersey.
As to the letters of 30 years ago: I do not think they should be lost but I am not overly anxious to keep them. James Harris had a good bit of genealogical material but he died about 2 months ago. John Mayne is also quite interested and it seems that when they got together they always discussed the ancestors. I saw the group picture Grace Selby Smith had that you had sent to her. Most of those people I never knew. That is why it is hard for me to place all the cousins who wrote the letters of 30 years ago and their connections.
I would like the photostatic copy of my great grandmother Elizabeth Stanton Lambert's own record of the moves she made from one place to another in Ohio. I think Grace sent that to you. It was given to me by The Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College because they also made a photostatic copy for their files on the Stanton family. I had the original from Mr. Endicott and after receiving the copy sent it back to him.
My father never told us what is quite evident in the history of Quakers that the reason they all left North Carolina at once was because they ceased to believe in slavery and wanted to go into a state that was free. I thing that was wonderful but dad always told us about the plantation and the 900 slaves instead. I suppose the 2 older sons of the first Lambert ceased being Quakers. I can't find records of them. If they did they would still keep salves and would remain in N. Carolina. Maybe the English rule of inheritance was not all.... maybe their mother has a good bit of money too which they would inherit.
The Lamberts in New Jersey were quite numerous. They had land near Perth Amboy but John Lambert was a member of a very large family and in the New Jersey land records they get mixed up. Certain lands were given the Quakers in New Jersey but the buying and selling was very active in the years that followed. I have never found the connection between the General and our family. All I can find is that he was executed. Further New Jersey records may furnish more ship lists. These ship lists told who arrived on which boat, ....and from where.
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One thing I do know is that the Stantons were not signers of the Mayflower Compact. Quakers were not in company of Puritans and Pilgrims. They were signers of a compact in Rhode Island which was rather famous however. ...at Newport. When the Stantons first came to the U.S. in the 16 hundreds they did go to New England thinking that it would be nice to settle there but the New Englanders drove them out and they then went to Rhode Island as did many other people who had been persecuted elsewhere. Our ancestors were evidently Hicksite Quakers.... and for the sake of peace went to North Carolina because they did not agree with their neighbors.
Three of grandfather Daniel Lambert's brothers were named after Quaker divines. I found that out. Barclay (Robert Barclay), Chalkley (Thomas Chalkley of Philadelphia) Elwood. In my father's record he leaves out Chalkley. I suppose Barkley, Chalkley, Elwood and Abner went to California in the early days. It would be an interesting to know what happened when they left, where they went first, how they went, how much money they had, and whether they wrote much to the folks back home.
Swarthmore College was founded by the Hicksite Quakers and Bryn Mawr and Haverford by the Orthodox and therefore all thru the years those from Bryn Mawr have been much more socially recognized than those from Swarthmore altho Swarthmore has very high standards, about the same as Oberlin. The Quakers in the old days were always putting people out for infractions of the rules.... note grandmother Eliz. Stanton Lambert... put out when she married Abner... because altho he was raised a Friend he would not obey the rules about appearing in church at the proper times before his marriage. Eliz. got back in 2 years later by applying to get back in but he never did. Today the Quakers try to keep their members and to convert others to their society. A very prominent Quaker woman in Swarthmore said that they lost many members in the old days by their stubbornness. Richmond Indiana is a good example. They are still there but not in Quaker bonnets and shawls. The younger generation rebelled. Most of our family left the Quaker church.
I wish I had more definite facts to give you but I do not. It was wonderful to be able to visit all the places that you did. On our way out here from Philadelphia we stopped in Barnesville but had not tome to wander around. We could not find the place I lived in as a child. I know that there is a map of the Barnesville region showing all the farms belonging to the Stantons around there and one of the Beaufort N.C. region showing the properties of the Stantons there. I wonder whether the plantations in N. Carolina were rice plantations. It seems logical. Those could not be worked without slaves. In Louisiana when we were there in the 30s there were enormous rice plantations but they were worked with enormous machinery. It must have been hard for gentle women who had had servants all their lives to go to Ohio and do all that hard work themselves. Have you ever seen the grandfather clock that some of the Stantons took to Ohio? It is mentioned in the genealogy. The authors of the genealogy lived in Landsdowne and in Ridley Park but I was afraid to call them for fear that they were dead (30 years later).
If you have an opportunity to come by this way stop and see us. Grace Smith lives 70 miles south of us and Nellie Rau in St Louis.
Sincerely,
{Pauline Warfel)
Pauling Lambert Warfel
