Cornelius Gray Lamb Sr. was a prominent farmer and land owner during\u00a0the antebellum period of Camden County. He was born abt 1798, son of\u00a0Cornelius Lamb and Chloe Lurry (Leary). He was the grandson of the Lamb\u00a0Family patriarch Capt. Luke Lamb and his first wife Mary Gray. He inherited a\u00a0substantial estate and managed to increase the value. In the 1860 census,\u00a0his estate was valued over $70,000 and was listed as owning 39 slaves.<\/p>\n
Linwood, was the name of his plantation, and the beautiful home once\u00a0stood at Lambs Corner, on the Southside of Lambs Road and North 343. Sadly\u00a0the home burnt down in the late 1930’s. Linwood was a gathering place for\u00a0scholars, statesmen and prominent families of Northeastern North Carolina.<\/p>\n
About 1825, Cornelius G. Lamb married Margaret Mackie (Mackey)\u00a0daughter of Capt. John Mackie and Mary Gregory of Currituck County, North\u00a0Carolina. She died in 1834. He married 2nd, Judith Gregory Mackie Ferebee,\u00a0sister of his first wife Margaret, and the widow of Thomas Cooper (Cowper)<\/p>\n
Ferebee Sr. of Currituck. Two Children of his marriages lived to adulthood. A\u00a0daughter, Mary E. Lamb who married Dr. Samuel I. Brown of Norfolk County on\u00a0January 15,1852 and a son Cornelius Gray Lamb Jr., who graduated from the\u00a0University of North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Cornelius G. Lamb Jr. joined the Confederate Army and was captured at\u00a0the Battle of Hatteras Island. He was a prisoner of war until his exchange in February of 1862. He never recovered his health and died sometime in 1863.<\/p>\n
Cornelius G. Lamb Sr. was reported to have been beaten and robbed by\u00a0Yankee soldiers at his home in Camden. He made it through the war years and\u00a0died in 1866. The Cornelius G. Lamb Family Cemetery is located in the corner\u00a0of the woods about 6\/10 of a mile southwest of Lambs Corner. The last time I\u00a0was there, 1983, the graves had been desecrated. One tall marker marks the\u00a0graves of his wives. A brick lined grave had been broke into and the cast\u00a0iron coffin was laid out on the ground.<\/p>\n
The tall marker reads: Judith G. Lamb<\/strong> John M. Lamb Thomas Lamb Cornelius G. Lamb Sr.<\/strong> Contributed\u00a0by\u00a0D. G. Owens<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cornelius Gray Lamb Sr. was a prominent farmer and land owner during\u00a0the antebellum period of Camden County. He was born abt 1798, son of\u00a0Cornelius Lamb and Chloe Lurry (Leary). He was the grandson of the Lamb\u00a0Family patriarch Capt. Luke Lamb and his first wife Mary Gray. He inherited a\u00a0substantial estate and managed to increase the … Continue reading “CORNELIUS G. LAMB Family Cemetery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4522],"tags":[27244,7055,22530,15835,26738,29589,15848,6952,27018,27234,29554,30334],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries","tag-battle-of-hatteras-island","tag-brown","tag-cooper","tag-cowper","tag-ferebee","tag-gray","tag-gregory","tag-lamb","tag-leary","tag-linwood","tag-lurry","tag-mackie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Yemh-1a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIn Memory of<\/strong>
\n Margaret Lamb<\/strong>
\nBorn Dec. 25, 1803
\nDied Feb. 2, 1834<\/p>\n
\nBorn March 3, 1794
\nDied Oct. 10, 1853 The stone was made by M.P. Butcher Norfolk, Va.<\/p>\n
\nB. Oct 24, 1827 B. Dec.1,1829 Cornelius G. Lamb Jr.
\nD. Sept. 21,1833 D. Oct 5,1832 believed to be buried here.<\/p>\n
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