Alta Cleora Dawes-Lamb was the wife of John Baptist Lamb, and daughter of Henry Levi and Caroline Augusta Windle-Dawes. Through her father, Alta was a direct descendent of both Richard Warren and William White, two of the original pilgrims that arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts on the Mayflower in 1620.
She was born in Stromsburg, Nebraska, and raised by a foster family with the surname "Linder" in Goodland, Sherman County, Kansas. Alta married John Lamb in Goodland where their first child was born. The child, a boy, died in infancy from water on the brain. After the birth of their second child, a daughter named Eleanor, they left Kansas and traveled so John could look for work. They lived in Colorado, Nevada, and then Washington before returning to Nevada where John filed five mining claims and mined for gold.
While John mined his claims near Elko, Nevada, Alta and their children lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. She took in laundry to wash, iron, and mend because money was tight when John was away mining.
After John retired from mining, he went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad as a watchman, and the family relocated to California. Alta died in Sacramento, California, in 1939. Her husband died the following year. Alta and John are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California.
NOTE: See the essay titled "William Dawes, and his ride with Paul Revere" by Henry Ware Holland, 1878. In the Dawes Genealogy located in the back of the essay, Alta Cleora and her parents are mentioned on page 102, in the descendent listing for Newton Dawes, Alta's grandfather.
She was born in Stromsburg, Nebraska, and raised by a foster family with the surname "Linder" in Goodland, Sherman County, Kansas. Alta married John Lamb in Goodland where their first child was born. The child, a boy, died in infancy from water on the brain. After the birth of their second child, a daughter named Eleanor, they left Kansas and traveled so John could look for work. They lived in Colorado, Nevada, and then Washington before returning to Nevada where John filed five mining claims and mined for gold.
While John mined his claims near Elko, Nevada, Alta and their children lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. She took in laundry to wash, iron, and mend because money was tight when John was away mining.
After John retired from mining, he went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad as a watchman, and the family relocated to California. Alta died in Sacramento, California, in 1939. Her husband died the following year. Alta and John are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California.
NOTE: See the essay titled "William Dawes, and his ride with Paul Revere" by Henry Ware Holland, 1878. In the Dawes Genealogy located in the back of the essay, Alta Cleora and her parents are mentioned on page 102, in the descendent listing for Newton Dawes, Alta's grandfather.
Alta Cleora Dawes-Lamb was the wife of John Baptist Lamb, and daughter of Henry Levi and Caroline Augusta Windle-Dawes. Through her father, Alta was a direct descendent of both Richard Warren and William White, two of the original pilgrims that arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts on the Mayflower in 1620.
She was born in Stromsburg, Nebraska, and raised by a foster family with the surname "Linder" in Goodland, Sherman County, Kansas. Alta married John Lamb in Goodland where their first child was born. The child, a boy, died in infancy from water on the brain. After the birth of their second child, a daughter named Eleanor, they left Kansas and traveled so John could look for work. They lived in Colorado, Nevada, and then Washington before returning to Nevada where John filed five mining claims and mined for gold.
While John mined his claims near Elko, Nevada, Alta and their children lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. She took in laundry to wash, iron, and mend because money was tight when John was away mining.
After John retired from mining, he went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad as a watchman, and the family relocated to California. Alta died in Sacramento, California, in 1939. Her husband died the following year. Alta and John are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California.
NOTE: See the essay titled "William Dawes, and his ride with Paul Revere" by Henry Ware Holland, 1878. In the Dawes Genealogy located in the back of the essay, Alta Cleora and her parents are mentioned on page 102, in the descendent listing for Newton Dawes, Alta's grandfather.
She was born in Stromsburg, Nebraska, and raised by a foster family with the surname "Linder" in Goodland, Sherman County, Kansas. Alta married John Lamb in Goodland where their first child was born. The child, a boy, died in infancy from water on the brain. After the birth of their second child, a daughter named Eleanor, they left Kansas and traveled so John could look for work. They lived in Colorado, Nevada, and then Washington before returning to Nevada where John filed five mining claims and mined for gold.
While John mined his claims near Elko, Nevada, Alta and their children lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. She took in laundry to wash, iron, and mend because money was tight when John was away mining.
After John retired from mining, he went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad as a watchman, and the family relocated to California. Alta died in Sacramento, California, in 1939. Her husband died the following year. Alta and John are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo County, California.
NOTE: See the essay titled "William Dawes, and his ride with Paul Revere" by Henry Ware Holland, 1878. In the Dawes Genealogy located in the back of the essay, Alta Cleora and her parents are mentioned on page 102, in the descendent listing for Newton Dawes, Alta's grandfather.
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