Mary Lucinda Lamb 1852-1910

LAMB MONROE

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Date: 9/1/2012 at 22:45:46

Mapleton Press
21 April 1910

Death of Mrs. Abijah Lamb

DIED.—At her home near this city, Tuesday, April 19, 1910, Mrs. Abijah Lamb, aged 57 years, 3 months and 25 days.

Her death was a most peaceful one. Although she had been sick from heart trouble for several weeks it was not thought she was in great danger, and, until the last hopes were held out for her recovery. During the last hours of her life she had appeared as well as usual, and having been out of doors she returned to her bed. Her husband followed her in a few moments and finding her lying on the bed, thought she had fallen asleep. Investigations proved that she had entered the sleep that knows no awakening .Within the moment her heart had stopped its action, her breathing ceased without a struggle, and she passed peacefully out of this life.

Mary Monroe was born in Fillmore County, Minn., December 25, 1852, where she grew to young womanhood, and July 3, 1870 of the age of seventeen she was married to Abijah Lamb, with whom she has since lived most happily. Her children were all born prior to coming to the farm joining the site of Old Mapleton, which was the spring of 1882 of whom there are four, three sons and one daughter. They are John Lamb, Dillard Oregon, Mrs. Fred Havnes, Kent Oregon, Charles Lamb, Mapleton, and Willis Lamb, Chicago, with whom besides her devoted husband, she leaves three brothers, L.H. Monroe, Santa Cruse, Calif., G.F. Monroe, Grant Pass, Oregon; Like Monroe, Mabel., Minn. and a sister, Mrs. Jane Rathburn, Spring Valley, Minn.

Mrs. Lamb, during her twenty eight years residence in this place was known by a wide circle of acquaintances for her hospitality and kind and gentle disposition.

She was a good neighbor and an affectionate wife and a devoted mother. The good she has done will live in the lives of those with whom she has associated in her life. The bereaved husband and family have the sympathy of the entire community, as was express this afternoon by the great number of people who turned out at the funeral to pay tribute to the noble character of so dear a friend.

Rev G. W. Ladd conducted funeral services from the home this Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock after which the remains were followed to Heisler Cemetery, where loving hands lowered the body to its last resting place. In order Rebekah, of which the deceased was an honored member, conducted the service at the grave.

Relatives present from a distance were: Mr. and Mrs. J H. Chilton, Climbing Hill, Elliott Stephens from Minnesota, and Mr. and Mrs. Wills Lamb, Chicago

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