Notes for Catherine "Kate" Lamb

Notes for Catherine "Kate" Lamb

****Kate is listed with father Daniel L. Lamb - SEE NOTES FOR Daniel L. Lamb (b. Aug 1835)****
!US Census 1900 (4 June) New Jersey, Camden Co., Roll 958 Book 2, Page 52, lines 46-50: Kate VanStavern (dau b. Jan 1863 - 37 - in NJ) married 18 years and having 1 child born and still alive. Child listed is: Walter Vonstavern (grandson b. Apr 1884 - 16 - in NJ - Occ: Clerk - Fa: NJ and Mo: NJ)

Catharine (Kate) Lamb married a man named VanStavern, who came from Philadelphia. After a time, she refused to live with him, and he shot her to death at a saloon owned by her brother Daniel at 4th and Chestnut Streets, Camden, N.J., while drunk. Their only child, Walter, thereafter changed his name to Lamb. Walter spent 16 years in the Navy and lived in Long Beach, California.