Joseph K LAME

                   A Joseph Lame married Mary Ann Phillips on Sept 19 1830 in Philadelphia
Shoemaker in Pike, IL

The family buried in Pittsfield, Pike, IL is that of Joseph K. LAME. He had 3 children w/ Sarah ROBINSON: (Charles Roger, William C., and Mary Amanda). Then he had 8 children w/ Mary Ann PHILLIPS: (Sarah Ann, Margaretta C. (Nannie), Eleonara, Robert M., Howard G(erard?)aka Doc, Rosetta, Mary, and Catherine. Then he had 8 more children w/ Phoebette St. John: Robert F., Joseph, Lissie J., Henrietta Clarissa, William Henry, John Wesley, Jesse Brooks, and Doras. Joseph K., the father, was b. 3 April, 1798, prob. in Philadelphia, poss. in NJ. He was a shoemaker. The family migrated from PA to IL between 1835 and 1837. (Between daughters Margaret b. PA and Eleanara b. IL) About 7 yrs later his son Charles R. brought his family to Pike Co., IL also, from what I can tell from censuses. Charles Roger owned a furniture store, and was an undertaker in Pittsfield, IL, as was HIS son Charles Edgar LAME. Charles Roger LAME supposedly had a personal relationship with Abraham Lincoln.