Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-27
FATHER LAMBSON
IS CALLED HOME.
Pioneer OF 1917 and Faithful
Church Worker Summoned TO
The Other Side.
SOME or HIS ACHIEVEMENTS.
Skllful as q Mechanic, Tie Did Much TO
Overcome Great Obstacles In
Early Days

Sunday, Feb. 20, 1906, Alfred Boaz
Iambson son Of Boaz and Polly wal
worth Lambson, a pioneer Of 1871 and q
faithful member OF the Church. passed
away al tho home OF his daughter Mrs.
Edna L. Smith. after an attack OF
erysipolas.
Elder Lambson was born In Niagara
county, N. " Aug, %, 1920, his early
youth was spent IN Michigan, from
which state he moved 20 Nauyoo In
lSi3, lie left Kindcrhook, Branch coun.
~, Mich, In company with Charles c.
Robbins, Nov lG 1913. and arrived in
Nauyoo on the 4th Of December Follow
ing. Here he met the Prophet Joseph
Smith, by whom he was miraculously
healed shortly afterwards from a severe
sickness which had threatened his life.
lie had always firm testimony Of the
Gospel and Implicit falthin the Prophet
Joseph Smith
He Joined the Church on the 4th OF
April 1874 having been baptized on
that day by Elder Truman Gillett On
the 18th OF the same month he was or
dained a Seventy and on the ith Of tho
following June left Nauyoo for Vir-
ginia ON mission to which he had
been called at a special conference IN
the previous April lie labored under
the presidency OF Benjamin Winchester
and Seqbert G.. shelton, but was called
home after the martyrdom OF the
Prophet Joseph and Patriarch Hyrum
Smith, and arrived in Nauyoo Dec n.
1894 on the 26th Of November 1916. he
married Melissa Jane Bigler. aud with
her was endowed In the Nauvoo temple,
Jan q, 1876 and on tho 18TH Of June,
1886 left Nauyoo for the valleys OF the
mountains. lie arrived at Winter Quar-
ters on the oath OF the following August,
where he remained and was engaged as
mechanic and blacksmith. assisting
the Saints to prepare for the westward
Journey until the 4th OF June, lSi1,
when he departed for the Salt Lake
valley,
A THOROUGH MECHANIC.
He crossed the plains in Daniel speu-
GERS company In the so under the
command Of Elijah r. Fuller and IN
Perrigtlne Sessions 10. Throughout this
journey he was the chief me-
chanic OF the company. Being
an artlhcer Of superior ability.
his support 20 the camp was
Invaluable. Many o night during that
drcary Journey he was called on for
repairs that engaged his attention TN
late IN the night, IN order that the jour
noy might not be hindered. Elder
Lambson made a bellows for the jour
ney, which he carried on a rack at
tached to the endgate OF his wagon. Il
was constructed out Of a headless bar
rel, or sort Of tub, tapering from the
bottom TO the top so that the hoops
could ne frightened from time to time.
A wooden diaphram and valve were at
tached also leather or cowhide ex-
panslons with necessary air valve, ham
die and leather hose to be Joined TO the
tuyere and furnace for blast II proved
TO be a complete success. For ordinary
light work he would place his anyil on
the ground but FOR heavy work and tire
setting a stump had TO be firmly set IN
the ground 10 which the anvil was at
tached On one occasion, near old Fort
Laramie, Elder IAmhson, assisted by
two skilled blacksmiths who were un-
der his direction, measured out, welded
and set eighty-iive tires In one day.
FIRST HOUSE PLAsTERED.
He arrived In the Salt Lake valley
Sept. 25 lSi7, aud shortly afterwards
commenced to build home, This