William M Lampton

In 1740, Samuel and William Lampton came to Virginia fro England. They were there when the revolution began and were ardent colonial patriots. In the meantime, the Earl of Durham died, and their younger brother remained in England. Samuel Lampton, who died in Virginia, should have succeeded to the earldom. William Lampton moved to Kentucky. One of his descendants, William Lampton, came to Mississippi and settled in Marion County near China Grove. He was the father of Benjamin Lampton, James and Frank Lampton and his first wife of John M Conerly, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Lucy. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), President Jefferson Davis, Henry Watterson, of the Courier-Journal, and other distinguished men can trace their lineage back to Samuel Lampton, who ought to have been Earl of Durham. It is said there was an estate of over $75 Million due the heirs of the Earl after his death. Benjamin Lampton and his wife, Mary Jane Conerly, were the parents of Walter M, Lucius L., Thadeus B., Iddo W., Edward, Mollie and Cora

In 1740, Samuel and William Lampton came to Virginia fro England. They were there when the revolution began and were ardent colonial patriots. In the meantime, the Earl of Durham died, and their younger brother remained in England. Samuel Lampton, who died in Virginia, should have succeeded to the earldom. William Lampton moved to Kentucky. One of his descendants, William Lampton, came to Mississippi and settled in Marion County near China Grove. He was the father of Benjamin Lampton, James and Frank Lampton and his first wife of John M Conerly, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Lucy. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), President Jefferson Davis, Henry Watterson, of the Courier-Journal, and other distinguished men can trace their lineage back to Samuel Lampton, who ought to have been Earl of Durham. It is said there was an estate of over $75 Million due the heirs of the Earl after his death. Benjamin Lampton and his wife, Mary Jane Conerly, were the parents of Walter M, Lucius L., Thadeus B., Iddo W., Edward, Mollie and Cora

added by wrb 22 jul 2009

Sam B Lampton, 1949:

"It was a period during which rolling back the frontiers of our country was the great American pastime. No doubt for many months, or perhaps years, young William Lampton (January 2 1802-October 8, 1868) had been making his plans and looking forward to that great day when he, too, would venture forth and create for himself a place in the new world. It was a natural ambition, one based on family tradition, and as inevitable as the changing times. It had been only a generation since his grandfather, William Lampton (Born England 1724- died Virginia 1790), had left English soil for Virginia, where he had raised a family. His father, Samuel Lampton (1772- 1829), had left Virginia and joined the great trek west to Kentucky, closely following the intrepid Daniel Boone. He himself had been born and reared in what is now Boone County, Kentucky, named for the famous frontiersman.

Doubtless from childhood he had gazed with wonder at the broad Ohio, and the desire to follow it to the Mighty Father of Waters and thence to the sea had become an obsession with him. We do not know whether his departure was with the blessing of his parents, whether whether it was caused by inability to get along with his step-mother as some accounts have it, or even whether it was within their knowledge, but we are led to believe that, just as the youths of that day, guided by the spirit of adventure, had left for other lands in the past, so those whom he loved and who loved him were reconciled to his determination to seek his fortunes where he would.

And so this stalwart son of Kentucky in 1818, then a lad of only sixteen years, arranged for his passage on a flat boat [ http://www.georgianindex.net/America/barge/mississippi.html ] down the Ohio and the mighty Mississippi to New Orleans, Working on the boat to pay his fare. His personal belongings were meagre, but he was happy. He was at last doing that which he had so longed to do. High adventure was his, and he looked to the future with anticipation and confidence.

Of his stay in New Orleans we have no knowledge, but we do know that it was not prolonged. Soon he found his way to Covington, Louisiana. That point was a trading place for the people of this section in those early days, and they made the trip in wagons, a distance of perhaps seventy-five miles as they traveled, taking sometimes several weeks. From Covington they brought back supplies that were to last for the year, and on which they were to make a crop, since they lived principally on foods grown on the farms. But it was necessary to go to Covington to secure necessary supplies of such things as flour, salt, sugar, coffee, and the spices, and such articles of dry goods as were essential.

It must have been that young William Lampton there came in contact with some settlers from what is now Walthall County and as a result of that casual friendship, returned with them to this section. Here he met and fell in love with Miss Lucy A. Youngblood, a Georgia born girl who had moved with her parents to this section. They were soon married..."

Note, wrb, 7 jul 2009

The Lampton stuff I'm adding today and in the next few days is from "The Lamptons of Mississippi" by Sam B. Lampton, Tylertown, MS- July, 1949.

For now I'm just adding names and dates.

The letters will come once I find somone who is a better typist.

Typescript from the papers of Charles Sedgie Pigott.

It starts like this:

"The earliest History of the Wm. Lampton family of this country of which we have any knowledge, begins with the migration from the mother land, England, of three brothers, who came to Virginia about the middle of the 18th century. Neither the exact locality in England from which they came, nor the place in Virginia where they settled, is definitely known. They were

Benjamin Lampton

Samuel Lampton

William Lampton

It has been established that our branch of the family descended from

William Lampton

b. England 1724

d. Virginia 1790

m. in Virginia in 1763

Patsy Schooler

b. Va

d. Va 1811

http://www.biblerecords.com/lampton.html

This Bible record was transcribed from Kentucky Records, Early Wills and Marriages, Old Bible Records and Tombstone Inscriptions. Volume One, Mrs. William Breckenridge Ardery (Julia Spencer Ardery), 1926, pp 151-2

William Lampton, born 1734, married Patsy Schooler 1763 in Page County, Va.

Their children:

William, born 1764, in Virginia.

John, born 1766, in Virginia.

Lewis, born 1768, in Virginia.

Benjamin, born 1770, in Virginia.

Samuel, born 1772, in Virginia.

Sallie, born 1775, in Virginia, married James Trowbridge.

Mary, born 1777, in Virginia, married William Crosswhite.

Joshua, born 1779, in Virginia.

Susan, born 1781, in Kentucky, married William McKinzey.

Wharton Schooler, born 1784, in Kentucky.

James, born 1787, in Kentucky.

Benjamin Lampton, born in Virginia, 1770, married in 1800.

Children:

Jane Lampton, born 1803, married John M. Clemens (father and mother

of Samuel L. Clemens --Mark Twain).

Patsy Lampton, born 1805, married John A. Quarles.

James A. H. Lampton, born 1815..

        -- added by Maria Edmonds-Zediker, 10/7/10