William Lamborn 1810-1897

LAMBORN, REEVES, HAGERTY

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Date: 8/2/2018 at 09:11:50

30 September 1897 - West Branch Times

The remains of William Lamborn were laid to rest in the West Branch cemetery last Saturday afternoon. He died at the home of his son near Centerdale, on Thursday Sept. 23, aged 87 years. He had been failing for several weeks from the infirmities of old age, and his life ended peacefully. He was a man of unusual mental ability and was bright intellectually to the very last, a member and a minister of the Hixite Friends Society, he was a pillar to the church and a useful man in the world.

7 October 1897 - West Branch Times

William W. Lamborn was born 11th month 14th 1810 at Waterford, Lowden county, Virginia, and removed in 1813 with his parents to Ohio locating near the subsequent site of North Georgetown Columbiana county. He was married 6th month 20th, 1848 to Phoebe Reeves of Chester county, Pa. To them four children were born--Amos P., Parmenas, Joseph Allen and Mary. Mary died in her infancy, and the sons grown to mature manhood, were with him in his last moments. He moved with his family to Iowa in 1863, settling at the present home (then an unbroken prairie) where he has lived since except the interim from 1892 to 1894, when he lived in West Liberty. His wife died 2nd mo. 11th 1892, and his own life ended 9th mo. 23rd 1897, from the frailties of old age, passing peacefully to his final rest near 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon. So far as we know he left but one survivor (Rebecca L. Hagerty of Clarence, this county, who visited him during his last sickness) of his, the fourth generation from Robert Lamborn the 1st, who emigrated from Berkshire, England, to America in 1713 and tracing his lineage from Sir Robert De Lamborn of Cornwall, England, A.D. 1199.

He was a birthright member of the Friends and lived a life consistent and in harmony with their belief and practice. He entered the ministry before leaving Ohio and lived acceptably so during his life, and while for himself he lived close to the customs and practices of early Friends as he saw the eternal truth and manifestations presented, he always felt and exercised the greatest charity for the views of others, growing in liberality with advancing years recognizing that religious knowledge, life and practice must grow and change with the advancing growth, development and requirements of the human race.

His was eminently the life of the pioneer, going at the age of three years into the trackless wilds of the forest of eastern Ohio, he grew up amidst the cries of wild animals, the visitation of Indians and the hardships of those earliest settlers. Thus early learning or acquiring that reliance on his own energies and abilities to meet and overcome the difficulties that arose from day to day. In common with many of his day, his scholastic advantages were limited, less than a year, yet without the guidance of pedagogue or masters, by a preserving and persistent course of home study and reading of such works on science history and literature as he was able to secure, he acquired an education in that fuller and broader sense that is excelled by few of the present day even with their exceptional advantages.

With a strong natural bent toward mechanics, mathematics and the sciences thus cultivated, he became local authority along those lines and his services as surveyor, millright, and contractor were sought for far and near. His emigration to Iowa at an early date became a repetition in a measure if not in degree of his early life.