Text on the Official Texas Historical Marker:
WILLIAM McKENDREE LAMBDIN
(JANUARY 16, 1811 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1867)
A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA, WILLIAM McKENDREE LAMBDIN WAS THE SON OF A METHODIST MINISTER. IN 1834, HE MARRIED PHEBE G. LAMB, AND AFTER HER DEATH IN 1849, HE MARRIED SUSAN A. THOMPSON (1830-1910) IN 1855. TWO YEARS LATER, THE LAMBDINS MOVED TO TEXAS AND SETTLED IN WACO. ORDAINED IN THE METHODIST CHURCH, LAMBDIN BEGAN HIS MINISTRY IN TEXAS AS PRESIDENT OF WACO FEMALE COLLEGE IN 1857. HE LATER SERVED CHURCHES IN BOSQUEVILLE, HOUSTON AND WACO, AND WAS PRESIDING ELDER OF THE FORT WORTH DISTRICT FROM 1860 TO 1864. HE DIED OF YELLOW FEVER IN 1867.
RECORDED 2001
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The Official Texas Historical Marker for the Rev. William McKendree Lambdin was a project of the Archives & History Commission of the Central Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church. Dr. T. Bradford Willis, the past chair of the commission, was asked to research and to apply for this Texas historical marker.
The historical marker was given in memory of John Todd Willis, Jr. and in honor of Hester M. Beck Willis by Dr. T. Bradford Willis. It was dedicated at First Street Cemetery on Pentecost, June 3, 2001.
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Rev. William McKendree Lambdin has a biographical sketch in the Handbook of Texas:
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lambdin-william-mckendree
WILLIAM McKENDREE LAMBDIN
(JANUARY 16, 1811 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1867)
A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA, WILLIAM McKENDREE LAMBDIN WAS THE SON OF A METHODIST MINISTER. IN 1834, HE MARRIED PHEBE G. LAMB, AND AFTER HER DEATH IN 1849, HE MARRIED SUSAN A. THOMPSON (1830-1910) IN 1855. TWO YEARS LATER, THE LAMBDINS MOVED TO TEXAS AND SETTLED IN WACO. ORDAINED IN THE METHODIST CHURCH, LAMBDIN BEGAN HIS MINISTRY IN TEXAS AS PRESIDENT OF WACO FEMALE COLLEGE IN 1857. HE LATER SERVED CHURCHES IN BOSQUEVILLE, HOUSTON AND WACO, AND WAS PRESIDING ELDER OF THE FORT WORTH DISTRICT FROM 1860 TO 1864. HE DIED OF YELLOW FEVER IN 1867.
RECORDED 2001
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The Official Texas Historical Marker for the Rev. William McKendree Lambdin was a project of the Archives & History Commission of the Central Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church. Dr. T. Bradford Willis, the past chair of the commission, was asked to research and to apply for this Texas historical marker.
The historical marker was given in memory of John Todd Willis, Jr. and in honor of Hester M. Beck Willis by Dr. T. Bradford Willis. It was dedicated at First Street Cemetery on Pentecost, June 3, 2001.
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Rev. William McKendree Lambdin has a biographical sketch in the Handbook of Texas:
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lambdin-william-mckendree
Text on the Official Texas Historical Marker:
WILLIAM McKENDREE LAMBDIN
(JANUARY 16, 1811 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1867)
A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA, WILLIAM McKENDREE LAMBDIN WAS THE SON OF A METHODIST MINISTER. IN 1834, HE MARRIED PHEBE G. LAMB, AND AFTER HER DEATH IN 1849, HE MARRIED SUSAN A. THOMPSON (1830-1910) IN 1855. TWO YEARS LATER, THE LAMBDINS MOVED TO TEXAS AND SETTLED IN WACO. ORDAINED IN THE METHODIST CHURCH, LAMBDIN BEGAN HIS MINISTRY IN TEXAS AS PRESIDENT OF WACO FEMALE COLLEGE IN 1857. HE LATER SERVED CHURCHES IN BOSQUEVILLE, HOUSTON AND WACO, AND WAS PRESIDING ELDER OF THE FORT WORTH DISTRICT FROM 1860 TO 1864. HE DIED OF YELLOW FEVER IN 1867.
RECORDED 2001
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The Official Texas Historical Marker for the Rev. William McKendree Lambdin was a project of the Archives & History Commission of the Central Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church. Dr. T. Bradford Willis, the past chair of the commission, was asked to research and to apply for this Texas historical marker.
The historical marker was given in memory of John Todd Willis, Jr. and in honor of Hester M. Beck Willis by Dr. T. Bradford Willis. It was dedicated at First Street Cemetery on Pentecost, June 3, 2001.
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Rev. William McKendree Lambdin has a biographical sketch in the Handbook of Texas:
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lambdin-william-mckendree
WILLIAM McKENDREE LAMBDIN
(JANUARY 16, 1811 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1867)
A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA, WILLIAM McKENDREE LAMBDIN WAS THE SON OF A METHODIST MINISTER. IN 1834, HE MARRIED PHEBE G. LAMB, AND AFTER HER DEATH IN 1849, HE MARRIED SUSAN A. THOMPSON (1830-1910) IN 1855. TWO YEARS LATER, THE LAMBDINS MOVED TO TEXAS AND SETTLED IN WACO. ORDAINED IN THE METHODIST CHURCH, LAMBDIN BEGAN HIS MINISTRY IN TEXAS AS PRESIDENT OF WACO FEMALE COLLEGE IN 1857. HE LATER SERVED CHURCHES IN BOSQUEVILLE, HOUSTON AND WACO, AND WAS PRESIDING ELDER OF THE FORT WORTH DISTRICT FROM 1860 TO 1864. HE DIED OF YELLOW FEVER IN 1867.
RECORDED 2001
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The Official Texas Historical Marker for the Rev. William McKendree Lambdin was a project of the Archives & History Commission of the Central Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church. Dr. T. Bradford Willis, the past chair of the commission, was asked to research and to apply for this Texas historical marker.
The historical marker was given in memory of John Todd Willis, Jr. and in honor of Hester M. Beck Willis by Dr. T. Bradford Willis. It was dedicated at First Street Cemetery on Pentecost, June 3, 2001.
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Rev. William McKendree Lambdin has a biographical sketch in the Handbook of Texas:
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lambdin-william-mckendree
