M.J. Lamme was born and raised at Marthasville, Warren County, Missouri. His father was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a very successful business man. His mother was born in Kentucky and was a granddaughter of Daniel Boone.
In 1850 M.J. helped lead a wagon train to California. Traveling with him was his wife, Amanda (Maupin) Lamme and their two young daughters, as well as Amanda's family, the Maupins. The trip was long and hard and he regretted making it. He wrote to his mother speaking of his depression and unhappiness. He advised her never to leave Missouri. Mr. Maupin said they started with 600 head of cattle and lost about 290. Of 80 yoke of work-steers they lost all but three.
In Nebraska, Amanda died from cholera. M.J. buried her on the prairie near the old Overland road (Oregon Trail), southeast of Bridgeport, Nebraska. Sending his daughters on with their Maupin grandparents, he returned to Fort Kearney and purchased a headstone which he took all the way back to her grave in a wheelbarrow. Her grave is one of the rare immigrant graves along the trail that is still marked today.
M.J. wrote sorrowful letters home to his mother about the hard time he was having in California and his loneliness for Amanda and his home and family. The family farm in Missouri where he grew up still looks today pretty much as it did when he left. (The writer of this bio lives there.) He gave up mining for gold after a short time and went into farming and raising sheep.
M.J.'s beloved mother died suddenly in 1856 and sometime before 1858 he returned home to Missouri because in that year he married a former friend, Miss Sumarus J. Echols in Boone County, Missouri. The two of them went back to California, where they lived out their lives together, both dying in 1887 at Buckeye / Winters, California.
Winters Express, Saturday, August 27, 1887, pg 3:3
DIED
LAMME - In Winters, August 25, 1887, M.J. Lamme, a native of Missouri, aged 72 years 5 months and 5 days.
Mr. M. J. Lamme died at his residence in this place on last Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Although he had been rather feeble for some time and confined to his room for a few days, his death was unexpected. Mr. Lamme was born in Montgomery County, Missouri March 20th, 1815 and was therefore 72 years old last March. He came to California in 1850 and located in Suison Valley. In 1852 he removed to Vaca Valley, and with the exception of a few years passed in Santa Rosa, where he went to send his children to school, spent the remainder of his life in that valley and in the town of Winters. He was a good citizen, a kind husband and loving father. He leaves a wife and son and daughter at home and has two daughters living in San Francisco. We tender our sympathy to the bereaved family.
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In 1850 M.J. helped lead a wagon train to California. Traveling with him was his wife, Amanda (Maupin) Lamme and their two young daughters, as well as Amanda's family, the Maupins. The trip was long and hard and he regretted making it. He wrote to his mother speaking of his depression and unhappiness. He advised her never to leave Missouri. Mr. Maupin said they started with 600 head of cattle and lost about 290. Of 80 yoke of work-steers they lost all but three.
In Nebraska, Amanda died from cholera. M.J. buried her on the prairie near the old Overland road (Oregon Trail), southeast of Bridgeport, Nebraska. Sending his daughters on with their Maupin grandparents, he returned to Fort Kearney and purchased a headstone which he took all the way back to her grave in a wheelbarrow. Her grave is one of the rare immigrant graves along the trail that is still marked today.
M.J. wrote sorrowful letters home to his mother about the hard time he was having in California and his loneliness for Amanda and his home and family. The family farm in Missouri where he grew up still looks today pretty much as it did when he left. (The writer of this bio lives there.) He gave up mining for gold after a short time and went into farming and raising sheep.
M.J.'s beloved mother died suddenly in 1856 and sometime before 1858 he returned home to Missouri because in that year he married a former friend, Miss Sumarus J. Echols in Boone County, Missouri. The two of them went back to California, where they lived out their lives together, both dying in 1887 at Buckeye / Winters, California.
Winters Express, Saturday, August 27, 1887, pg 3:3
DIED
LAMME - In Winters, August 25, 1887, M.J. Lamme, a native of Missouri, aged 72 years 5 months and 5 days.
Mr. M. J. Lamme died at his residence in this place on last Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Although he had been rather feeble for some time and confined to his room for a few days, his death was unexpected. Mr. Lamme was born in Montgomery County, Missouri March 20th, 1815 and was therefore 72 years old last March. He came to California in 1850 and located in Suison Valley. In 1852 he removed to Vaca Valley, and with the exception of a few years passed in Santa Rosa, where he went to send his children to school, spent the remainder of his life in that valley and in the town of Winters. He was a good citizen, a kind husband and loving father. He leaves a wife and son and daughter at home and has two daughters living in San Francisco. We tender our sympathy to the bereaved family.
Please contact me if you have an interest in this family.
M.J. Lamme was born and raised at Marthasville, Warren County, Missouri. His father was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a very successful business man. His mother was born in Kentucky and was a granddaughter of Daniel Boone.
In 1850 M.J. helped lead a wagon train to California. Traveling with him was his wife, Amanda (Maupin) Lamme and their two young daughters, as well as Amanda's family, the Maupins. The trip was long and hard and he regretted making it. He wrote to his mother speaking of his depression and unhappiness. He advised her never to leave Missouri. Mr. Maupin said they started with 600 head of cattle and lost about 290. Of 80 yoke of work-steers they lost all but three.
In Nebraska, Amanda died from cholera. M.J. buried her on the prairie near the old Overland road (Oregon Trail), southeast of Bridgeport, Nebraska. Sending his daughters on with their Maupin grandparents, he returned to Fort Kearney and purchased a headstone which he took all the way back to her grave in a wheelbarrow. Her grave is one of the rare immigrant graves along the trail that is still marked today.
M.J. wrote sorrowful letters home to his mother about the hard time he was having in California and his loneliness for Amanda and his home and family. The family farm in Missouri where he grew up still looks today pretty much as it did when he left. (The writer of this bio lives there.) He gave up mining for gold after a short time and went into farming and raising sheep.
M.J.'s beloved mother died suddenly in 1856 and sometime before 1858 he returned home to Missouri because in that year he married a former friend, Miss Sumarus J. Echols in Boone County, Missouri. The two of them went back to California, where they lived out their lives together, both dying in 1887 at Buckeye / Winters, California.
Winters Express, Saturday, August 27, 1887, pg 3:3
DIED
LAMME - In Winters, August 25, 1887, M.J. Lamme, a native of Missouri, aged 72 years 5 months and 5 days.
Mr. M. J. Lamme died at his residence in this place on last Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Although he had been rather feeble for some time and confined to his room for a few days, his death was unexpected. Mr. Lamme was born in Montgomery County, Missouri March 20th, 1815 and was therefore 72 years old last March. He came to California in 1850 and located in Suison Valley. In 1852 he removed to Vaca Valley, and with the exception of a few years passed in Santa Rosa, where he went to send his children to school, spent the remainder of his life in that valley and in the town of Winters. He was a good citizen, a kind husband and loving father. He leaves a wife and son and daughter at home and has two daughters living in San Francisco. We tender our sympathy to the bereaved family.
Please contact me if you have an interest in this family.
In 1850 M.J. helped lead a wagon train to California. Traveling with him was his wife, Amanda (Maupin) Lamme and their two young daughters, as well as Amanda's family, the Maupins. The trip was long and hard and he regretted making it. He wrote to his mother speaking of his depression and unhappiness. He advised her never to leave Missouri. Mr. Maupin said they started with 600 head of cattle and lost about 290. Of 80 yoke of work-steers they lost all but three.
In Nebraska, Amanda died from cholera. M.J. buried her on the prairie near the old Overland road (Oregon Trail), southeast of Bridgeport, Nebraska. Sending his daughters on with their Maupin grandparents, he returned to Fort Kearney and purchased a headstone which he took all the way back to her grave in a wheelbarrow. Her grave is one of the rare immigrant graves along the trail that is still marked today.
M.J. wrote sorrowful letters home to his mother about the hard time he was having in California and his loneliness for Amanda and his home and family. The family farm in Missouri where he grew up still looks today pretty much as it did when he left. (The writer of this bio lives there.) He gave up mining for gold after a short time and went into farming and raising sheep.
M.J.'s beloved mother died suddenly in 1856 and sometime before 1858 he returned home to Missouri because in that year he married a former friend, Miss Sumarus J. Echols in Boone County, Missouri. The two of them went back to California, where they lived out their lives together, both dying in 1887 at Buckeye / Winters, California.
Winters Express, Saturday, August 27, 1887, pg 3:3
DIED
LAMME - In Winters, August 25, 1887, M.J. Lamme, a native of Missouri, aged 72 years 5 months and 5 days.
Mr. M. J. Lamme died at his residence in this place on last Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Although he had been rather feeble for some time and confined to his room for a few days, his death was unexpected. Mr. Lamme was born in Montgomery County, Missouri March 20th, 1815 and was therefore 72 years old last March. He came to California in 1850 and located in Suison Valley. In 1852 he removed to Vaca Valley, and with the exception of a few years passed in Santa Rosa, where he went to send his children to school, spent the remainder of his life in that valley and in the town of Winters. He was a good citizen, a kind husband and loving father. He leaves a wife and son and daughter at home and has two daughters living in San Francisco. We tender our sympathy to the bereaved family.
Please contact me if you have an interest in this family.
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