This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lambert Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UW.2ADE/1709.2 Message Board Post: Ukiah Republican Press Friday, August 11, 1911 Drunks Murder Former Resident John Lambert, deputy sheriff at Fort Klamath, Oregon, was shot and killed last Saturday while in performance of his official duties. He had gone to arrest two drunks who were disturbing the peace. They resisted arrest and opened fire on Lambert fatally wounding him the first shot. Lambert returned fire and his assistants were seriously wounded. The deceased was well known in this county and was a brother of George Lambert. George left immediately for his bedside but his brother passed away before his arrival. Ukiah Republican Press Friday, August 18, 1911 Funeral of J.W. Lambert The remains of John Wesley Lambert were laid to rest in the local cemetery Saturday afternoon. The deceased was 57 years old and spent a good portion of his life in this county. His daughter, Fay Taylor of Randsburg, and brothers, Ernest Lambert of San Francisco, William Lambert, of Boonville, George Lambert, of this city, and mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Washington Lambert, of Anderson valley were here to attend the funeral. The deceased was murdered in his capacity as an officer of the law by a couple of thugs at Fort Klamath on the 6th. The murderers were apprehended and will be tried for their crime. Mendocino County Indexes http://www.pacificsites.net/~pcarna Mendocino County Tombstone Photos http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mendocem/