Mary Brown Lambert (1815-1910)

Every Monday I will post about one of my ancestors and tell their story... So here's this weeks Ancestor Post.



My 4th great grandmother, Mary Brown Lambert (1815-1910)

Mary Brown was the daughter of William Brown and Jane (Jones) Brown and was born on March 24, 1815 in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the second of twelve children born to William and Jane.

On February 27, 1837, in Owen County, Kentucky. Mary was married to John Lambert, a native of Pennsylvania. They had 14 children (yes, 14!), my 3rd great grandmother being the 5th child. John and Mary had their first three children in Owen County, Kentucky, and the remainder in Fall Creek, Illinois, where they moved to in 1840.

Mary lived in Fall Creek until about 1870 when she and her family moved to Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal is just accross the Mississippi River and was the hometown of the ever-so-popular author Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens). John and Mary lived at 1304 Walnut Street. She was left a widow on October 24, 1894.

Mary died on June 7, 1910  in her home in Hannibal at the age of 95 years.

At the time of her death, she left 43 grandchildren.