Robert M Lamb was from Eastern Virginia. He came to Coshocton, and was employed as miller in the Coshocton Steam Mill, about 1834 ; afterward, as one of the Union Mill Co., was concerned with the building and running of the Union Mill, in lower Roscoe. He went to California in 1849, and died of cholera in San Francisco the next year, in the forty-first year of his age.
He married a daughter of Dr. S. Lee, and by her had three children, two of whom Mrs. J. M. Thompson and Miss Emily, are residents of Coshocton ; the third Mrs. Barse, living at Michigan City, Indiana.

 

Source:  Historical Collections of Coshocton County Ohio 1764-1876
Author: William E Hunt, pub. 1876