SARAH JANE WALKER , DAUGHTER AND ONLY CHILD OF THOMAS L. AND CAROLINE TUDOR WALKER, WAS BORN NOVEMBER 30, 1872. HER MOTHER DIED WHEN SHE WAS A LITTLE CHILD AND SHE EXPERIENCED SOME OF CARES OF A CHILD HOUSEKEEPER IN HER EARLY CHILDHOOD. ALL HER SCHOOL DAYS WERE SPENT AT THE OLD LOG SCHOOL HOUSE WHICH STOOD ABOUT ONE MILE SOUTH OF THIS PLACE. SHE PROFESSED FAITH IN CHRIST AT AN EARLY AGE AND UNITED WITH THIS SUGAR GROVE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SHE HAD BEEN A CONSISTENT, FAITHFUL AND ACTIVE MEMBER FOR THE PAST SIXTY YEARS.
SARAH JANE WALKER WAS MARRIED TO GEORGE DENTON LAMB IN DECEMBER OF 1893. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN TWO CHILDREN; ELVAH LAMB WALKER OF THIS COMMUNITY AND ROY LAMB, PADUCAH. SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN THE EARLY MORNING OF JULY 5, 1945, AT THE AGE OF 72 YEARS AND SEVEN MONTHS. SURVIVING HER ARE THREE HALF SISTERS, ALICE WALKER TRAVIS, ROSA WALKER BRANTLEY, AND LILLIAN WALKER DRABEN; FIVE HALF BROTHERS, ALBERT, THOMAS E., LEWIS, ALVIE, AND LYNN WALKER. THE NEAREST SURVIVING RELATIVES ARE HER HUSBAND, GEORGE D. LAMB, HER DAUGHTER , ELVAH LAMB WALKER, HER SON. ROY B. LAMB, ONE GRANDCHILD, GEORGIA LAVERN LAMB, HER SON-IN-LAW, ACIE WALKER, AND HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW FREDDIE TRAVIS LAMB.
AS A MATTER OF FAMILY HISTORY , IT CAN BE SAID THAT MRS. LAMB WAS A DESCENDANT OF SOME OF THE FINEST PIONEER FAMILIES WHO SETTLED IN THIS AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES. AMONG THEM WERE HER GRANDFATHER ON HER MOTHER'S SIDE REV. ROBERT TUDOR, AND HER GRANDFATHER ON HER FATHER'S SIDE THE REV. WILLIAM HALE. BOTH ARE SAID TO HAVE PREACHED WITH GREAT ELOQUENCE, INFLUENCE AND POWER, AND HAD MUCH TO DO WITH THE UPBUILDING , THE BAPTIST CHURCH IN WEST KENTUCKY.
SHE WAS A DEVOTED WIFE AND MOTHER, A LOVING GRANDMOTHER , A GREAT NEIGHBOR, AND FAITHFUL TO ALL HER DUTIES TO HOME, CHURCH AND COMMUNITY.
MRS. LAMB'S PASSING WILL BE FELT AS THE LOSS OF ONE WHOSE FRIENDS WERE NUMBERED BY HER AQUAINTANCES AND WHOSE THOUGHTFULNESS OF OTHERS, AND GENTLENESS OF MANNER ENDEARED HER TO ALL WHO KNEW HER.