born in Hardy, Virginia264

55Nathaniel jackson Lambert, was appointed Captain of the Tucker County Independent Scout Company, by Governor Arthur Ingraham Boreman, at about the same time he appointed 31 other such Captains in 23 other counties [abt spring, 1864].

Source: Clara Bonner
typed sheet
"Nathaniel was a, or became a teacher and went about as was the custom of the times. Went about from place to place securing subscriptions for his school. While on a journey to form a school he came to the home of William Bonner located in the surveys. Which later became a part of Tucker County. It was there that he met Anjamima Carr Bonner and their acquaintance resulted in marriage march 19, 1849."

264Source: Lambert Book p151
m. Jemima Bonner, daughter of William Bonner Mar 19 1849
Shortly after their marriage they established their residence on a large stock farm located on Gandy Creek, Randolph County, Va...Later they moved into Dry Fork District, Tucker County on land owned by Jacob Flanagan. The location on which their dwelling stood was long remembered as the "Than Place", and is nowowned by Benson Lambert and his mother, Carrie Bennett Lambert. During his old age, and declining years with his son James William who lived at Williamsburg, IO.
As a teacher NJL was noted for his thorough knowledge of the elementary subjects and for his power and will in exacting good order among his adult pupils. His forbidding threat, "I may never rise if I don't punish you" and the menace of his cut and dried beech shillelagh, frozed the michieveous design many an elfish youth.