U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lambert, Joseph (1821-1906) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911 Page 481 Joseph Lambert was born in Virginia, on July 31, 1821, and on September 1, 1846, he was married to Miss Margaret Lynch, of Harrison county, and the following year, they settled on the Keith farm near Harrisville, and in 1878, they removed to the town, where Mrs. Lambert died in March, 1905, and he, the following year. Both rest in the Harrisville cemetery. Their family consisted of seven daughters; the late Mrs. Virginia Wells, Mrs. Ella Woods, Mrs. George Cokeley, Mrs. Bird Cokeley, Mrs. Metta Talbott, and Mrs. Cora Martin. The other one died in infancy. ------------------------------------------------------------------- (daughter of Joseph & Margaret Lambert) From Death Certificate, Ritchie County, WV #6100 FULL-NAME: India Bird Cokeley BIRTH-DATE: June 6 1859 BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va. DEATH-DATE: April 19, 1935 (at age 75y-10m-13d) DEATH-PLACE: Harrisville, Union District, Ritchie County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed (Andrew Cokeley) OCCUPATION: Housework / Own Home FATHER: Joseph Lambert (born in Va.) MOTHER: Margaret Lynch (born in Harrison Co., Va.) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Carcinoma Liver & Bowels INFORMANT: B. Cokeley BURIAL: Harrisville Her tombstone is in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Harrisville, WV Bird Cokeley June 6, 1859 -- April 19, 1935 ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Ritchie County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/ritchie/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------