Part I - Hezekiah Lamb and Hannah Small
Family Group "K"

Rebecca Ann Lamb
and
John Q Overman

Little is known at this time about the family of Rebecca Ann Lamb. The daughter of Hezekiah Lamb and Hannah Small, she was born in 1852, in Grant County, Indiana.

She was married 21 March 1871, (probably in Riverton, Fremont County, Iowa) to John Q Overman, carpenter, son of Stephen Overman and Polly Moorman. (For a full account of these ancestors (See: Overman and Moorman families in Part VIII).

From an old partially complete letter written by Walter V. Overman, and quoted in Mormon Archives, it states that John got his middle initial while in military service. John enlisted in the Civil War.; Date: On the Union side as a Corporal on 02 September 1863; Company C, 7th Cavalry Regiment Indiana; Transfered on 21 July 1865 from Company C to Company F; Mustered out Company C, 7th Cavalry Regiment Indiana on 18 February 1866

They were living in Riverton, Fremont County, Iowa, on the Census of 1800. They moved from Marion, Indiana, to Beatrice, Nebraska, where Ann had a millinery shop. According to Walter V Overman, widow Ann and girls were living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a few years before 1927.

At the time of her brother Hale’s death in 1932, Rebecca was living in Leavenworth, Kansas. One of sons disappeared and they never knew what happened to him.

On the Census of 1900, he was a Carpenter in Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska. At that time, they had been married 32 years, and 4 of their 6 children were still living.

John died before 1920; Rebecca died on 4 (or 9) July 1943, in Minneapolis, Hannepin County, Minnesota

Children:

1. Grant J Overman, born June 1868 Iowa, age 12 on the Census 1880. If Grant was born in 1868, he was born before they were married when Rebecca was 16


2. Mabel Overman, born 1877, Iowa; married __ Cunningham


3. Bertha Overman, born after 1880, died before 1900


4. Charles Overman, born 1874, age 6 on Census. Another source gives his birthday as 1874, born in Indiana, died before 1900.


5. Maude Overman, born February 1883, a fine painter and Milliner; died 02 March 1953 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; married William Judson Mendenhall after 1910 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota who was born 11 September 1880 in Iowa, and died 26 May 1947 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. He was a Machinist for steam railroad


6. Raymond Overman, born January 1888, Nebraska

K-1. Grant J Overman

Grant J Overman, son of Rebecca Ann Lamb and John Q Overman, was born in June 1868, in Iowa, probably Riverton, Fremont County, Iowa.

He was married about 1892, to Maggie, who was born December 1868 in Iowa. Her father was born in Ireland, and her mother was born in Canada or England. They probably moved to Beatrice Nebraska about the same time his parents did.

Grant was listed as a mill foreman on the Census of El Paso County, Colorado, in 1900, and owned his own home at 1005 Lincoln Ave, city not indicated.

On the Census of 1910, he was living in Colorado Springs, and there was a Kittie Lyman living with them. On the Census of 1930, he was living in Orchard, Monroe County, owned a restaurant, and lived in a rented home.

Children:

1. Albert Overman, born about 1893, born in Nebraska, probably Beatrice, Nebraska


2. Anna Overman, born about 1895, in Nebraska, probably Beatrice


3. Bernard Overman, born about 1897, Nebraska


4. Ethel M Overman, born 1899/1900, in Colorado, probably died before 1910


5. Marguerite Overman, born about 1904