Joseph Franklin Lambert, Jr.

Mr. Frank lived to be a little over a hundred years of age. At the age of 7 during Reconstruction Days following the Civil War, he remembered his father's farm being looted by Yankee soldiers, who had disembarked from a ship at Fort Morgan and were heading North by foot.

He attributed his long life to "going fishing any time I want." Perch fishing from a river boat was his favorite method of indulging in the sport. Primarily a farmer for most of his life, "Mr. Frank" also timbered for a livelihood once in his youth. He remembered his grandfather, "Captain Jim", who lived to be 94. His grandfather had a horse-powered cotton gin which he operated at a site located north of Uriah between Lovett's Creek and Randall's Creek. Four horses powered the gins and lint was packed into bales in screw-type cylindrical presses with hemp rope being used for bale ties.

Mr. Frank joined the Masons at the age of 25 in the original Alabama Lodge No. 3 at the then thriving town of Caliborne. He helped organize the lodge at Uriah and held almost all offices which the Masons have to offer. He was made an honorary member of the South Alabama Shrine Club in June, 1952.