Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885,
Hardin Co.

DR. WILLIAM W. LAMBUTH. The name thus introduced is one which may be traced
in America to about 1756, when William Lambuth came from England and
settled in Albemarle County, Va., and from him have sprung all the families
of that name now in Kentucky and Tennessee. Among his sons was one bearing
his name, who became a missionary and came to the wilds of Kentucky and
Tennessee in that capacity in the early times, and during the reign of the
noted banditti under the leadership of "Big Sharp" and "Little Sharp" into
whose hands he once fell a prisoner. He married, in Virginia, Elizabeth
Greenhaugh, of German extraction, and soon after settled in Sumner County,
Tenn., at a place called Fountain Head, then the nucleus of the Methodism
in the wilderness. He died in that county at the age of eighty-one years,
most of which he had spent as an itinerant Methodist minister. He had seven
sons, the third of whom bore the family name of William, who was the father
of Dr. William W., whose name heads this sketch. He was born in Tennessee,
in 1803, and though a mechanic for the greater portion of his life, he was
a man of extensive reading. He married Elifal Jernigan, of Tennessee;
reared a family of ten children; removed to Kentucky in 1847, and died in
Elizabethtown in 1870; his widow died in 1880. Dr. William W. is the fourth
member of the family, and was born in 1832, in Tennessee, and was educated
chiefly in Muhlenburgh [sic] County, Ky. He studied medicine under Dr. 
R. B. Pusey, of Elizabethtown, and was graduated in 1864 from the 
Louisville School of Medicine, and in 1865 graduated from the medical 
department of Louisville University. He then practiced medicine in 
Elizabethtown until 1870, when he entered the Methodist Conference as an 
itinerant minister, continuing therein until 1883, when he again resumed 
his practice of his profession, locating at Sonora, where he now resides. 
He was married in 1868 to Miss Myra, daughter of David and Elizabeth 
Matthis, of Hardin County. They have a family of three children, viz.: 
Albert R., William D. (professor of languages in the State College at 
Lexington), and Lizzie, wife of J. B. Dyer, of Sonora.

Lambuth Greenhaugh Jernigan Pusey Matthis Dyer
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England Albemarle-VA Sumner-TN Muhlenberg-KY Jefferson-KY

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