Jeremiah Wilson Lamb (1850 - 1900)

Born 3 Jan 1850 in Crittenden, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Baker) Lamb — married 1879 in Kentucky, USA

Died 9 Oct 1900 at age 50 in Union, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Wilson was born about 1850.

Wilson passed away about 1900. ^[1]

Research Notes

Transcription of the last will and testiment of J. Wilson Lamb:

I, Wilson Lamb, being of sound mind make this my last will. I possess some real and some personal property: I owe some debts, nearly all of which my brother, John B. Lamb is surety, and to secure him against any and all loss by reason of his suretyship. I made my policies of $2000 in each, the Knights of Honor and the Golden Cross, payable to him, also as a further security I have given him my said brother, a mortgage on all my real estate. He has been a brother indeed, standing as my bondsman whenever and wherever neede, from my boyhood to the present time, and it is my earnest desire that he lose nothing by reason of these brotherly favors. First: After all my just debts have been paid, I will all the remainder, both real and personal, including all realiezed from Life Insurance, to my beloved wife, Ann McLesky Lamb, and she to be my executrix and guardian for our dear son, Robert, and that no bond be required of her for either in as much as I have made suitable provisions for the payments of all my liabilities. Second: That my brother, John B. Lamb, do nothing towards selling my real estate to pay my debts for which he is liable, unless it be some which is wholey or partially contracted at the time of my death until the $2000 from the Knights of Honor, and the $2000 from the Golden Cross, or whatever amounts may be realized from the said policies, have been received and applied towards the payment of said debts, then if there be any bebts unpaid for which he is liable, and the best interestes of my estate demands that the remainder of said debts be settled at once, my executrix shall advertise without process of law, or unneccessary expense and sell a sufficiency of my real estate to fully pay the said debts. My said wife to decide what property shall be sold. If the total amount of my debts for which my said brother, John B. Lamb is liable, shall not exhaust the amounts realized from the said policies in the Knights of Honor and Golden Cross, then after said debts are all paid, the remainder shall be paid to my wife as aforesaid. If at my death it shall apear that I owe nothing for which my said brother, John B. Lamb is liable, then the entire proceeds of both policiies - the one in the Knights of Honor and the other one in the Golden Cross shall be paid to my said wife; they, the said policies being allowed to remain payable to my said brother as indemnity only, he never having paid a single cent on them-Third: That no inventory be taken of my estate, but that my dear wife see that all of my just debts are paid; for most of which she will find explanatory statements or accounts of recent date, and after all is settled, the reminder is to belong in fee-simple to my beloved wife as heretofore stated; she is to do with the same as may appear best to her. In testimony whereof I have signed this my last will in the presence of J-Mack Thompson, and Bert F. Wallace, on the 20th day of April, 1900. - J. Wilson Lamb.

Witnesses, J Mack Thompson Bert F. Wallace

At a County Court held in and for Union County at the Courthouse in Morganfield, Ky. on Nov. 5th 1900, the foregoing instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of J Wilson Lamb, deceased, was produced into open court and the execution thereof proven by the oath of Bert F. Wallace one of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and the Court being sufficiently advised, ordered said instrument probated, established and recorded as the last will and testament of said

J. Wilson Lamb, which is now done accordingly. Attest. E. H. Wathen, Clerk. by R. M. Wathen, D.C.

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial 63658949

• Papers passed from Jeremiahs's father, James Madison Lamb, through William Joseph Lamb.

1880 U.S. Federal Census, Caseyville, Union, Kentucky

U.S. Find-A-Grave, shows burial in Sturgis, Union County, Kentucky, USA.