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Below is a family biography included in The History of Fayette County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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L. B. Lamb, a farmer residing near Lambert, Fayette Co., Tenn., was born in July, 1839, in Shelby County, Tenn., and is one of two sons and a daughter born to Paschal and Sarah (Osborn) Lamb, and is the only one now living. The father was a native of Alabama and came to Shelby County, Tenn., when young, and married there, his wife being a native of South Carolina. The father farmed in Shelby County until his death in 1840. The mother afterward married Jesse Henson and lived in Arkansas until his death, when she returned to Fayette County, where she died in 1877. By her marriage to Mr. Henson she had seven children, two living. L. B. Lamb remained at home until seventeen years old, then worked for a relation in Arkansas two years, receiving for his services a bridle, saddle and horse; he was then in the mercantile business for a year at Jonesboro, Ark., and then returned to Fayette County, and in 1861 he went into the Confederate Army in the Fifty-First Tennessee Infantry, and was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson and held five months, when he escaped and walked home. In 1865 he married Martha V. Douglass, a native of Fayette County, and they farmed in Shelby County until her death in 1867. Two children were born to them, but they died in infancy. Mr. Lamb after this located at Lambert, and was a merchant there until 1881, when he moved to a farm near Galway, where he remained until 1886, then located at his present home, a tract of 800 acres, where in 1885 he had erected a saw-mill and cotton-gin. October 25, 1875, he married Mrs. A. E. Cocke, who has a son, Allen, living. To this union four sons have been born, all living: Levy Leroy, Robt. P., Lowell and Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb and family are all Cumberland Presbyterians. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a man of energy and force of character.

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This family biography is one of 77 biographies included in The History of Fayette County, Tennessee published in 1887 by Goodspeed.  The History of Fayette County was included within The History of Fayette and Hardeman Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Fayette and Hardeman Counties, Tennessee

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