Eleanor (Reynolds) Lamb (1835 - 1915)

Born 17 Dec 1835 in Climax, Randolph Cty, N. Carolina

Ancestors

Wife of Alexander Lamb — married 26 Aug 1852 in Randolph Cty, North Carolina

Descendants

Died 26 Jun 1915 at age 79 in Stuart, Guthrie County, Iowa

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Biography

Eleanor was born in 1835. Eleanor Reynolds ... She passed away in 1915. ^[1]

Article written February 1965 by unknown author: Eleanor Reynolds Lamb Alexander Lamb

Reynolds Family = County of Randolph, North Carolina

David Reynolds 6/18/1796 Joseph Reynolds 7/12/1799 Wenlock Reynolds 2/25/1801, died 10/16/1842 Jonithan Reynolds 9/16/1803 Alendar Reynolds 6/18/1805 Hannah Reynolds 3/23/1807

Wenlock Reynolds married Rebecca Barker who died 7/25/1837. Daughters (Eleanor Reynolds 12/17/1835, Randolph County, North Carolins; Zeporah Reynolds 4/6/1837, Randolph County, North Carolina). A small town Climax near Greensborough, N.C.

Eleanor wasn't quite two years old when her mother died. Zeporah was three months old. Their father's death was five years after his wife's.

They were raised in separate homes by relatives who were of the old Quaker Faith. Both used the forms "Thee, Thou, Thine." The girls didn't have a church birthright.

Their relatives were in sympathy with the Negro slaves and helped with the Underground Railroad for run-away slaves. Eleanor would be sent with a basket of food to be left in front of a cave. If someone questioned where she was going, she was to say the food was for a sick person.

Zeporah didn't marry and in later life came to Stuart, Iowa to live with her sister. Borth are buried on the Lamb lot located in the southwest corner of the North Oak Cemetery, Stuary, Iowa.

Eleanor Reynolds married Alexander Lamb in August, 1852; Randolph County, North Carolina. She was seventeen and he was twenty-two years old.

Some of their relatives and friends had started the westward journey to make homes either in Indiana or Iowa. The travel was by covered wagons and horses. The Blue Hill Mountains were to be crossed. On the journey, water was carried, turns were taken during the night to keep the wove4s of horse thieves from the camps.

Eleanor and Alexander Lamb started for Indiana the next spring after they were married 1853, with relatives and friends. There were six wagons. The journey would take at least five weeks. The others owned two horses but Alex had only one with all their possessions piled in one wagon.

Alex stopped at Terra Haute, Indiana as there was a necessity for them to earn money. Some of the others kept on going to Jasper County, Iowa, near Newton, Iowa.

Alex and Eleanor (Ellen as she was called) lived in Indiana three years. during that time, Smith Lamb was born. Two of the years had much rain causing rheumatism.

They followed and joined the others in Iowa, 1856. Alex was sick with malaria fever. Eleanor worked doing any kind of sewing, knitting, weaving, quilting, or washing to help. Washing was 25 cents. Wages were mostly paid in cornmeal or meat. The men cut grain by hand or a cradle for 50 cents a day. Corn, at first, was planted by hand. A sack of corn was carried with straps over the shoulder. They found the Iowa weather much different than in North Carolina.

The railroad at that time extended only to Iowa City. Grain was hauled there by wagons. Twelve to fifteen cents was paid for corn.

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Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Carolyn Korbel, Monday, July 15, 2013.

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDVQ-Z8N : accessed 28 January 2016), Alexander Lamb, Iowa, United States; citing p. 14, family 112, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,892.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD2F-V4X : accessed 28 January 2016), Eleanor Lamb in household of Alexander Lamb, Penn, Guthrie, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district ED 78, sheet 122B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0342; FHL microfilm 1,254,342.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9KG-HMY : accessed 28 January 2016), Alexander Lamb, Penn & Stuart Townships Stuart city (pt.) Ward 1-2, Guthrie, Iowa, United States; citing sheet 4B, family 144, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,434.

• North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11274200/eleanor-lamb: accessed 18 September 2023), memorial page for Eleanor Reynolds Lamb (17 Dec 1835–26 Jun 1915), Find a Grave Memorial ID 11274200, citing Oak Grove Cemetery, Stuart, Guthrie County, Iowa, USA; Maintained by Tony Lamb (contributor 47662977).

Acknowledgments

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