Freestone County, Texas
Cemeteries




Lamb Cemetery

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Background:  Family burial plot for Thomas Lamb's family and his descendants. 
  [Many Lambs are buried at Cade and Wortham cemeteries in the northern part of 
  the county.  Many Lambs are buried at nearby Cotton Gin.]

  Thomas Lamb & Elizabeth Brimberry were married on December 13, 1827 in 
Crawford County, Illinois. They lived for a short time in Crawford County, then 
Edger County, Illinois. They then moved to Texas, eventually settling in a part
of Limestone County that eventually because Freestone County in 1850.  
  Thomas Lamb was one of the charter trustees of Woodland College For Boys in 1863.
After the death of Elizabeth Brimberry in 1863, Thomas married Mrs. Mary Patten/Patton 
on January 22, 1865 in Freestone Co., TX. 
  Thomas Lamb served Texas in Sgt Watkin's Company during the Texas Independence.
There are other indications of his service for Texas.
  
Status: Inactive since about 1895

Directions: "Located just west of the Rock Island Railroad and north of the now
existing Woodland Cemetery." (Source - H of FC, Vol I, pg. 90).  "Lamb graveyard 
two miles northeast of Woodland." (Fairfield Recorder, June 29, 1894 issue).
   The Lamb Cemetery is located west of Interstate 35 and 2 mile northeast of 
the Woodland Cemetery at the intersection of county roads 1044 & 1051.

Cemtery Description:
   Lamb Cemetery is located in very rough and rugged terrain overgrown with 
trees, brush, weeds and vines, through the years. There are no remaining grave 
markers visible.  Rusted iron perimeter gate remains.
 
Oldest Grave: Unknown

Suggested Contacts: Glenda Wheeler, Teresa Townsell, or Alkmena Blount Barger.

Reference: There is apparently an existing record book for the Lamb Cemetery. 

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Marked Grave *1*/Unmarked Grave:
Lamb, Thomas                   1808-06/??/1870 Sgt Watkin's Co. TX Mil Mexican War *1* *2*

Unmarked Graves:
Lamb, Elizabeth Brimberry      1810-02/02/1871 [w/o Thomas; source - Glenda Wheeler.
   Death year conflicts with Sonny Sessions article since he talks about 1863.
   Also "A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, 
   Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas" Page: 583-585.]
Lamb, Joe                         ?-06/22/1894 s/o Sam Lamb; age 18    *O*
Lamb, William                  1850-      1917 [source - Glenda Wheeler.]
Lamb, Annie Laura                              [source - Glenda Wheeler.]
Lamb, Mary Jean Dunagan           ?-      1871 [w/o Sam; source - Glenda Wheeler]
[Sam Lamb was buried at Cade Cemetery.]
Lamb, John                      1834-  abt 1868 *3*
 
*1* = Note that is modern marker actually placed at Cade Cemetery instead of 
      Lamb Cemetery where he is buried due to the inaccessibility of the Lamb
      Cemetery.

*2* = His death date is validated by looking at the 1870 Mortality census for 
   Freestone County, Texas.  The census states that Thomas was 63, from KY 
   (incorrect), a farmer, and that he died of consumption.     

*3* = John is in 1867 voters registration (of Freestone Co., TX. done on 16 Aug 
1867) after his marriage to Miss Mary Worth Whitaker on 25 Sep 1865.  John is not
listed on 1870 agriculture census but his wife is.  John is definitely dead when
his widow, Mrs. Mary Lamb, marries Silas J. Lake on 15 Jan 1872.