Death's Harvest: Lamb.
Mrs. Nancy (Hatfield) Lamb was born March 22, 1838, and died April 20, 1917, aged seventy-nine years and twenty-eight days. She was the daughter of Washington and Elizabeth Hatfield, one of a family of nine brothers and three sisters. She was married to Hiram Lamb, Sr., August 3, 1855, in her eighteenth year. To them were born three daughters, Abbie, now the wife of Helmer Holmes; Patsey, the deceased wife of Harve Jackson, of Owensburg; and Linea, the wife of Lon Strosnider, of Owensburg. She had twenty-one grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. Four brothers and one sister survive her. She remained at the old home in Jackson township for about two years, but finally gave it up and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Holmes in Washington township, where she died.
She was a member of the church at Bethel, in Jackson township, for fifty-seven years. She prepared the loaf for the communion service for forty years, ceasing when she was o longer able. She was a woman of humble pretentions, but faithful and true, and helpful to her family and her neighbors. Those who knew her long and well say "Aunt Nancy was a good woman"?say it without being asked. Funeral services in the home where she died, last Saturday afternoon, and interment in the Dishman cemetery, in Jackson township, on the day following, largely attend at both places. In hope of the resurrection, "Let her sleep".
