EV. JOHN LAMBETH, son of Josiah Lambeth, was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, and died at his home in 1846.

      Josiah Lambeth, though of English descent, married and settled in a Dutch settlement, north of North Buffalo creek, in Guilford county, about the year 1770 or 1780, and reared a large family of four sons and nine [141] daughters. The names of his sons were Josiah, Jr., Lovick, Shade, and John.

      Rev. John Lambeth was connected with the Christian Church in its earliest days. He was "ordained to the office of Elder," in 1828, at the General Meeting at Union in Orange (Alamance) county. In the year 1830, at which time the General Meeting or Conference was held at New Providence, in Orange (Alamance) county, he was appointed to travel and preach on the Surry circuit, in Virginia. While on this circuit, he married in Virginia. He located near his father's home, and his family was cared for by his father while he was traveling and preaching, as an itinerant, on the circuits to which he was assigned. In 1833, he attended the General Meeting at Kedar in Warren county, North Carolina.

      He is recorded as being absent from the Conference at Old Lebanon in 1839. The North Carolina and Virginia Conference was held at Apple's chapel, in Guilford county, in 1841, at which time he was in attendance.

      He is said to have withdrawn, but the records are silent as to his final connection and labors with the church.

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