LAMAR ORPHANS

These are Lamars that I have found in my research that I have no idea how they connect to the Lamar family. I believe they connect and were missed by early Lamar researchers. If you have any information on these people or have some orphans of your own to add to the list, contact Eleanor Colson at EleanorCol@aol.com.

Mack LAMAR, Goucester Co, New Jersey and Adams Co, MS. He is older than the Mack LAMAR of South Carolina, son of Thomas LAMAR IV and Lydia Murfey.

1784 Gloucester Co, NJ tax list:
Mark [Mack?] LEMAR

1785 Gloucester Co, NJ tax list:
Mack LAMAR

1790 Frederick Co, MD census:
Lemack [Mack?] LAMAR 1 male < 16, 1 male 16+, 4 females
On same page with Thomas and William LAMAR
*****Not sure if this is the same guy

1820 Adams Co, MS census:
Mack LAMAR Age 45+ Appears to be living alone

Theodore LAMAR, Prince George's County, Maryland. This Theodore is older than all of the Theodores that I have in my file. He was born 1775-1794 according to the 1820 census for Prince George's County, MD:

LAMAR, Theodore, Prince George's County, MD, page 214; 310010-11010

Henry LEMAR, Kent County, Delaware. The administration of his estate was granted to his widow, Eleanor LEMAR and to George Soward on 20 June 1795. [Arch. vol. A30, page 12. Reg. of Wills, Liber N, folio 124] He is likely related to Charles LEMAR I.
James LAMURE
From the Clendennin, Mays, et al inheritance lawsuit in Augusta County O.S. 318, N.S. 114, patented 17th September, 1792, “James Lamure married ____ Clendennin, daughter of George Clendennin of Augusta County who lived in Clarke County, Kentucky in 1807 and passed through Greenbrier County. George Clendennin settled in Greenbrier County in 1787. Jemima Clendennin, widow of George, issued a deed to Mays in 1807. (apparently others thought she had no right to issue this deed as it was considered part of an inheritance that could not be sold by the widow).
Submitted by Mrs. Cecilia L. Fabos-Becker
Matthias LEMAR, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mentioned in the will of George Blum, City of Philadelphia, Chocolate Maker, written 16 May 1798. One of the children of George Blum listed was "Anna, wife of Matthias LEMAR.
Samuel LEMAR, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Listed as a deponent in the year 1691. He was listed as age 24. [Middlesex Co, MA Deponents, 1649-1700, Ancestry.com]
William LEMAR, Augusta County, Virginia
William Lemar’s (and other spellings) earliest record was in Augusta County in 1768 when he obtained a hemp certificate, then as one of the appraisers in the estate of John Watson in 1776, and a purchaser of items from the same estate. He is described as living or having lands in Botetourt (where his second wife, Hannah, and sons appeared on tax lists from the late 1780’s through the mid 1790’s), and Rockingham County—his estate was administered from Rockingham County. When he was seriously ill and missed muster in 1777, he appeared in Augusta County records. He died in 1778. His first wife may have been a Beard/Baird as the administration of his estate was re-assigned by petition to James Beard (also spelled Baird in some records of this person and his family). “August 24, 1778, William Lemar, deceased; James Beard, administrator, bond: 200 pounds bond; surety George Boswell.” He was in Buchanan’s company in the Revolution. He was married first before 1767 as his oldest daughter, Sarah married William Mills on May 20, 1788 in Botetourt County. William Lemar’s children—as identified as brothers and sisters to one another in various records of Virginia and Tennessee (they moved to Anderson County, Tennessee) included: William, James, Christian, John, Jane, Elizabeth and Sarah, and a last child, Charles.

Hannah and her youngest son, Charles moved back to Berkeley County when the rest of the family went to Tennessee, (where the family had been recorded in 1782, after the death of William Sr.), Virginia and then went to Ohio, where they are buried in the Sharon Methodist Church graveyard in Clinton Co., Ohio. Hannah’s gravestone was barely legible in the middle of the 20th century when the cemetery headstones were transcribed but she was identified as “mother of Charles” and born in 17___ in Virginia, d. 183_. Charles’s Lemar’s gravestone stated “d. 2-15-1867, aged 90 years and 10 months,” indicating he was born in April, 1776. His first wife, Elizabeth, is nearby and the age on her gravestone was mistranscribed. The date of death was 12-31-1812 and her age was transcribed as 55, but is more likely 35—the gravestone was hard to read according to the transcriber’s notes. It’s one of the oldest ones in the cemetery. Charles Lemar married twice. His youngest son by his first wife was named Samuel. Samuel is buried in the New Burlington Cemetery, Clinton County, Ohio. A curious note: the son’s birth date is the same day as the death date for Elizabeth based on the death data on his gravestone. There were two children by the first marriage of William Lemar Sr., and the rest were by the second marriage to Hannah.

Jane Lemare md. A. P. Sprucehead in Botetourt County, October 171, 1796, just before the family moved to Anderson County, TN. James Lemar md. Elizabeth Seavers also in 1796 in Botetourt County. William Lemar “Jr.” married Rosannah Mills, daughter of John (deceased) and Mary Mills, in Tennessee in 1796 but there is no exact date.

The first wife of William Lemar Jr., Rosannah Mills Lemar, died in Anderson County, TN, Dec. 6, 1807 and he married (2nd) Polly Seavers, a daughter of William Severs, in 1812 in Anderson County.

William Lemar “Jr.” died October 10, 1830. He left no will but in the March Court of 1841 an “etal” (deed of settlement) filed in Anderson County Court which named all of the children of William Lemar by his two marriages. A copy of this document is in the book _The Lamar Legacy_ by the late Ruth Lamar Petracek. The filing was made by one of William’s sons, Hugh B. Lamar. In the document, William’s widow, Polly, was mentioned as having received her dower interest. The children listed for the dividing of the estate “among and between them” were: James, Charles, Polly Lamar Adkins, Jane Lamar Dew, Thomas J. (Jefferson), Joseph B. (Blagg), Hugh B. (Barton), Anne E. Lamar Wade, Andrew J. (Jackson), Catherine Lamar, Wilie B.(Blount), and John M. (Mills). Two additional children were known to be William (III) and Charlotte who died young. A family Bible was passed on from Charles Lamar to descendants and has been seen by several persons. Another Lamar family Bible was owned by Ruth Longmire, of Andersonville, TN in the 1970’s.

Submitted by Mrs. Cecilia L. Fabos-Becker

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