The following is recorded in Joel Lambert's
War of 1812 Pension and Bounty Land Warrant application:[1]
"State
of Kentucky
Henderson
County
On the 29th of January A.D.,
1852 personally appeared before me [Y.E.
Allison] a Justice of the peace ... Joel
Lambert aged fifty five years a resident of Henderson County in the State of
Kentucky, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the
identical Joel Lambert who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain
Robert Smith in the 14th Regiment of Kentucky detached Militia commanded by
Col. Parker in the War with Great Britain declared by the United States on the
18th day of June 1812. That he was drafted (or substituted for a Drafted man)
at Henderson in Henderson County Kentucky, on or about the 25th day of August
A.D. 1814 for the Term of Six months, and continued in actual service in said
War for the term of Six Months (having entered into actual Service on the 14th
of November 1814) and was honorably discharged at Russellville, Ky on the 20th
day of May 1815 as will appear by the Muster Rolls of said Company. He states
that he received a written discharge, and that the same is lost or mislaid and
cannot now be found.
He makes this Declaration for
the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the
"Act Granting bounty land to Certain Officers and Soldiers who have been
engaged in the Military Service of the United States" passed September
28th 1850. [signed] Joel Lambert"
The above
declaration was recorded by William D. Allison, Clerk of County Court of
Henderson 28 January 1852.
Lambert
stated he fought at the Battle of New Orleans as a private and his pension was
on file in the pension office.
Joel Lambert
and Polly Husbands were married by Claiborne Duvall, Minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, in Henderson on 11 Sep 1818. Rev. Joel Lambert was a minister
in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for more than half a century. He was born
in Virginia, but went to Kentucky as an infant. Mrs. Lambert was a native of
Henderson.
A letter
from J.L. Rousseau, Attorney & Counselor at Law, to Joseph H. Baker,
Commissioner of Pensions in Washington, DC, dated 28 Oct. 1871, stated Joel
Lambert had received a land warrant for 80 acres. Appended to this letter was a
deposition in which Pain Dixon stated he was a member of the same regiment and
company with Joel Lambert.
On the 8th
day of September 1879, Sam W. Sizemore and Robt. B. Batte appeared before the
Henderson County Court Clerk and stated that Joel Lambert, pensioner of the War
of 1812 - No. 8354 died in the City of Henderson on the 26th day of June 1879, aged 82 years,
that Lambert was the husband of Polly Lambert, who made an application for pension as his widow and Polly
had not married since the death of her husband.
In a letter
to the Department of the Interior Pension Office, it was stated that "Mrs.
Lambert appears to be very old and states that she was born in 1802 ... her
pension certificate, No. 27713, was issued to her Nov. 10, 1879 as the widow of
Joel Lambert."
Joel and
Mary "Polly" (Husbands) Lambert are buried in Fernwood Cemetery in
Henderson, Kentucky. Inscribed on their monument is the following:
Joel
Lambert Born Aug. 25, 1796 Died June 26, 1879
Polly
Husbands Wife of Joel Lambert Born June 3, 1802 Died Feb. 24, 1893
[1]
Pension Application 8354, Fold3 War of 1812 Bounty Land Warrant Application,
<https:www.fold3/image/314998680> accessed 15 Dec 2015.
Published 29 May 2016, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
1 comment:
thanks, Brenda...very interesting!
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