Biography of John J Lambert, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 153

John J. Lambert (deceased) was born in Hardeman County, Tenn., in 1822, and his
father being a farmer he was reared to that occupation, remaining on the old
homestead until he attained his majority. He was married July 14, 1858, to Miss
Jennie Cox, a native of Tennessee, whose father was a farmer. When the war broke out
Mr. Lambert espoused the cause of the Confederacy and served one year in the
Confederate army, then returning home and resuming farming. In 1867 he emigrated,
with his family, to Arkansas, locating in Greene County, where he bought 100 acres of
land, a portion of which was improved. On this tract he erected barns and stables,
and opened about fifty acres, but later bought other large tracts, part of it joining
this, from which he cleared [p.153] the timber. To his union with Miss Cox one child,
James Abner, was born, and his second resulted in the birth of three children: Mary
W., wife of Allen Howell; John J. and Thomas L. The last two are young men, who are
managing the home farm, being engaged in general farm work. They have about seventy-
five acres under cultivation. At the time of Mr. Lambert's death, November 28, 1887,
the farm was divided and sold, with the exception of several tracts of land in
Tennessee, Thomas L. buying eighty acres of the old homestead and 240 acres of
another tract, forty acres of another and some town property. Mr. Lambert was one of
Greene County's most substantial and prominent citizens, and was a generous and
public-spirited man, ever ready to aid enterprises for the public good, and is
remembered with gratitude and affection by all his neighbors. He was a member of the
Masonic fraternity.