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Josiah Lumbard

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Re: Josiah Lumbard

Posted: 5 Jun 2012 8:39AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Lumbard, Scharf
I received this from a relative of J.A. Lumbard last month. I've always wondered if he might be illegitimate, but was puzzled that he had the Lumbard name. The sister in Danville is a lead - although not much of one if she was married.. still, it is the first lead I have had in all these years of looking for him. Please let me know if any of you find anything more!

I did receive some more photos from Howard Scharf as well - they are posted here:
http://heathersgen.blogspot.com/2011/01/joseph-lumbard-succu...

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Joseph Lumbard was born in Selinsgrove. His father was a traveling salesman from New England and in those days a salesman came to town by train or canal boat and would stay in town for several days. Joseph Lumbard was illegitimate, His father never returned to Selinsgrove but he had a sister from Danville who used to come and visit.

I remember one time when I was still living in Middleburg and was about four years of age, she came to visit us, She was dressed in green silk which made a noise when she moved. It had lots of lace made in the style of the late nineties.

When grandfather was about 15 he enlisted in the Army and was in the entire Civil War, He was only wounded once, when a piece of shell at Gettysburg hit him back of the ear When he returned to Selinsgrove after the war, he drank too much, I remember two interesting stories about him, Grandmother would not allow him to kiss her before the marriage, On the way to the minister (in a buggy he had hired to drive her to be married) he asked for one kiss and she replied "You have waited this long, you can wait another
hour".

After the marriage he still drank. One night he was lying drunk in the gutter outside of the Methodist Church in Selinsgrove while a revival service was going on, He woke up and heard the singing, got up and went into the church, listened to the sermon and went up front when sinners were called. He went home sober and never again touched a drop of liquors In those days almost everyone kept a bottle of whiskey for colds. I know we did in our house, but Grandfather Lumbard never allowed one in his home.


His mother later married a man named Duck and had several children. I used to visit her home in Selinsgrove and knew Hazel Duck. She used to take me to Rolling Green Park. Grandpa Duck was dead and Grandmother Duck earned the living by baking bread. There was a large outdoor oven in the yard where the bread was baked and it always smelled so good around there. Besides Hazel there were several older girls who were married and I never knew them, but two brothers moved to Williamsport. When I was 10 or 11 years of age I used to visit Uncle Edward Duck. He was a floor walker in the rug dep. Of the big department store there. They were always very nice to me. After my mother had her operation in Williamsport, she went to Uncle Eds to get well.
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Margaret Lumbard-Brill 4 Nov 1999 9:01AM GMT 
HeatherTrucke... 5 Jun 2012 2:39PM GMT 
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