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Joseph Summerfield, b. about 1754 in Birmingham,Warwick, England - d. in Randolph, VA, wed Winnie Nelson, daughter of John Nelson and Sarah Stearns. Their child was Mary Elizabeth "Betsey" Summerfield. Mary Elizabeth wed David Grubb White, son o f Thomas and Abigail Grubb White. Winnie left Joseph Summerfield. Thomas White passed away. Joseph Summerfield then married Abigail Grubb White. (his son-in-laws mother)
Winnie is a daughter of John and Sarah (Stearns) Nelson. Winnie later ran off with a John Lambert Sr and went to Tennessee where they produced a family. No divorce records were found for Winnie or John. They had a daughter Sarah in 1807 and died on August 11, 1871 in Randolph County, West Virginia. Sarah Married Joseph White who is a son of David White a son of Thomas White and Abigail Grubb and Elizabeth Summerfield daughter of Joseph Summerfield and Winnie Nelson.
[from a pdf file from the web on Joseph Summerfield]. . . We don't know how long he was in jail, but we do know that he married Abigail Grubb White (Thomas' widow) in 1802. He had previously been married to Winnie Nelson and they had six children . Around the time he was in jail, Winnie had an affair with another man and ran off with him to Kentucky where they stayed for several years...
Type: E-Mail Message Author: Carolyn Burt Date: April 9, 2002
Note: Source: R. Bolling Batte Papers in possession of The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, biographical Card Files, Tabb, K., Card 131 of 144
Lamberts. The Lambert family of Tucker, Randolph, and Pendleton Counties was reviewed in the aforementioned History of the Lambert Family (1958). It was there reported that John Lambert Sr. (d. 1804) of Washington Co., MD and Randolph and Pendleton Counties, WV was the son of a George Lambert Sr, and grandson of a Matthias Lambert of York Co., PA. Thus far, no one has found proof that John Sr. was the son of George Sr.; it is true that they lived adjacent one another, and appear to be of succeeding generations, but this is not proof. There were other Lamberts in the Washington and Frederick County area. Nor has it been proven that George Lambert Sr. of Washington Co., MD is identical to the George Lambert that was named in the will of Matthias Lambert of York Co., PA. These do seem probable identifications, but there is a substantial lack of connective evidence between them.
In addition to this, the earliest generations of the Pendleton County Lamberts in that book contain numerous errors. The first and most glaring is when it was reported that James Lambert, son of John Sr., left a single son named John, to be raised by John Lambert Jr. This "single son" was reported to have married Winnie Nelson, and raised a family in Pendleton County, from whom the Lamberts of Tucker County largely descend. Firstly, the initial "single son" claim is easily refuted when one considers that James Lambert (b.1758) could not have had a son born in 1762 In reality, the "single son" John and John Jr. were one-and- the-same person. John Lambert Jr. first married Nancy ---, and had three children: Elizabeth, John, and Mary. He then left his wife and family around 1800, and "ran off' with Winnie (Nelson) Summerfield, and they commenced producing a family. Eventually, John Lambert was called to the Pendleton County Court (1813) for living in adultery with Winnie. They never married, possibly because Winnie never got a divorce from her first husband, Joseph Summerfield (though that didn't stop him from remarrying). Another omission in the history of the Lambert family is that George Lambert, youngest son of John Sr., had another mate and family prior to Eleanor Johnson and their family. The evidence suggests that George Lambert first lived with Jane Warner, from about 1800 to 1810-11. They had at least five children together: John, James, Zebedee, Solomon, and Elizabeth. George's 1810 Census enumeration supports this identification (excepting Elizabeth, who was born in late 1810-1). In addition, some Warner families in Pendleton County have a family tradition that they were "all supposed to be Lamberts"; those families can, in fact, be traced back to Jane Warner. In addition, at death, two of her sons' fathers were reported to have been "George." For unknown reasons, George Lambert and Jane Warner separated around 1811. George then paired-up with Eleanor Johnson, a daughter of Richard Sr. and Nancy (Howell) Johnson. Family descendants have tried for years to find their marriage; given George's behavior with Jane Warner, I will be surprised if researchers ever find a marriage record for him to Eleanor.
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