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FRED NEAL LAMBING (1889-1942)
(Son of Albert James and Ada Longstreth Lambing)
Fred Neal Lambing born March 13, 1889, married Mary Gladys Leedom, June 1, 1920 of Haverhill, Ks.  They lived on the Lambing home place on the Whitewater river that was originally broken out by Fred's dad, A.J. and Uncle Ambrose.  To this union two daughters and three sons were born.

                            Fred                                                            Gladys(Leedom)
          Fred farmed the homestead with horses, mules, steam engines and purchased the first rubber tired tractor in the area in 1940.  It was a 1939 John Deere "G".  Three fourteen inch plows could be pulled at a time.  Even with the new tractor much of the farming was still done with horses and mules.  Fred owned a threshing machine and did custom threshing for the neighbors.  His threshing machine was first driven by a steam engine, but later by tractors.
        At least at one time Fred considered the purchase of potatoes from his cousins that lived in Idaho.  In a letter written to Fred Lambing dated Oct. 31, 1918 posted from Kimberly, Idaho from Alta Strain (Herbert Lambing's sister) she states that "I was glad to hear from a Lambing.  Bert says he will sell you a car at $1.50 a bu. you pay for the freight.  We shipped a car to West Liberty that way and it cost 66 cents including War Tax a hundred.  Every thing here sells by the hundred and there will be 600 to 650 bu to the car or 3200 to 4000 lbs.  That is the way they go.  We have almost a car and a neighbor has the same kind and he will finish the car.  The Gov. inspector said we had as clean as he had seen this year.  All cars have to pass the inspector before you can ship now.  So they will be good stuff.
          If the people there will want a car we will ship as soon as we can get a car so they can get over the mountains before it gets cold enough to freeze.  If they decide, send a night telegram to Twin Falls to A. V. Strain, phone 554J2, then we would get it in the morning so we could order a car as we sort.  Fred this price is without sacks.  Sacks are very high and very hard to get.  Fred I think of you in knee pants and here you are grown and me the Mother of four children, three girls and a boy.  My baby boy walks now and the girls are all in school.  The girls and I put in 1/2 acres of onions, we got 118 sacks.  I sell culls at one cents and the good ones at two.  I sure like Idaho, that is the part we are in.  In a country where there is mountains one can have several kinds of land and climate.
         Say a man from Randall, Kansas came here this spring.  He bought 10 acres.  He put four acres of clover to potatoes and they made 330 sacks per acre.  The old ground made 280, but says he won't dare write that home to Kansas for when he left he was considered a man of truth, but they never would believe that.  Write again, remember us to all the folks.  Alta Strain"  No where in the letter does she state that she is pricing potatoes to Fred, but it seems to be potatoes that she is talking about.
         Fred had heart problems and in the fall of 1941 became very ill and passed away Feb. 2, 1942.

Percy Albert Lambing  born 1905 and married Jeannie ???.  Percy died June 25, 1977 form complications of knee and foot surgery.  They lived on a farm near Holden, Mo.

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