Esther Lambert

Esther Lambert

• Father: George Lambert b. circa 1800

• Esther Lambert was born on 8 May 1840 in Pennsylvania.
• George Lambert appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Other members of the household included Esther Lambert. Also in the household were wife Jane (age 27) and children Josiah (7), Lewis (5) and Samuel (2.)
• George Lambert appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Buckstown PO, Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Other members of the household included Esther Lambert. Also in the household were wife Jane (age 37) and children Josiah (17), Lewis (15), Samuel (12), Mary J. (6), as well as farm laborer John H. McGriger (16.)
• She married Samuel Callahan.
• She married Daniel Penick, son of Robert Penick and Elizabeth (?).
• Daniel Penick and Esther Lambert appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois. Other members of the household included Robert Penick, David Perry Penick and Ellen Callahan. Also in the household were five male boarders.
• Esther Lambert became a widow at the 20 March 1893 death of her husband Daniel Penick.
• Johann Ludwig Weiler and Ellen Callahan appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas, at 417 West 9th Avenue. Other members of the household included Esther Lambert, George Walter Weiler, Herold James Weiler, Lewis Forest Weiler and David Perry Penick. Also, boarding in the household were two young oil company workers.
• Esther Lambert appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in West Point, Hancock, Illinois, at Main Street. Other members of the household included David Perry Penick and Rose Lee Cannon.
• She was employed as a cook in a hotel, according to the 1910 census.
• David Perry Penick appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in West Point, Hancock, Illinois, at Gladstone Street. Other members of the household included Esther Lambert.
• Esther Lambert died on 23 March 1923 at age 82 in Riverside Township, Adams County, Illinois, at the Old Soldiers & Sailors Home.
• She was interred at Old Soldiers & Sailors Home (now Sunset) Cemetery, Quincy, Adams County, Illinois.

• Last Edited: 24 Nov 2014