EV. LOVICK LAMBETH was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, and, moving west about the middle of the last century, died in Indiana as is believed. He was a son of Josiah Lambeth who, though of English descent, married and settled north of North Buffalo, in Guilford county, North Carolina, about the year 1770 or 1780, or possibly a little earlier, in the Dutch settlement, and reared a large family of nine daughters and four sons. His sons were named Josiah, jr., John, Lovick, and Shade, and of these sons Lovick is the subject of this brief sketch.

      Rev. Lovick Lambeth was a candidate for licensure and was received as a member of the North Carolina and Virginia Conference at Union meeting house, in Orange (now Alamance) county, in 1840. At this Conference he offered the following: "Resolved, That a committee be appointed consisting of three or more brethren to wait on the Methodist Protestant Conference upon the subject of Christian union." At Apple's chapel in Guilford county, in 1841, he was present as a licentiate and was recommended for ordination. He was solemnly set apart to the work of preaching the gospel by the presbytery composed of Revs. D. W. Kerr, J. H. Bland, and Lewis Craven. In 1843, he was present at the Conference at Pleasant Grove, in Randolph county, and in 1844, at the Conference at Hanks' chapel, in Chatham county, [206] North Carolina. At this latter he served on the committee on finance. At the Conference at Apple's chapel, in 1845, he served on the committee on itinerancy, and on the publishing committee to receive bids from printers at Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1848, he attended the Conference at New Providence, and at Hanks' chapel in 1849, was chairman of the committee on the state of the church. The report says, "Our cause was at no former period so prosperous as at present."

      In 1859, he resided at or near Summerfield, in Guilford county, and was in attendance upon the Conference at Union chapel, in Alamance county, North Carolina. The home mission committee at Salem chapel, in Forsyth county, reported him as removed, and at subsequent Conferences--as absent in 1869, not heard from in 1870, and as in Indiana in 1871.

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