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    1. Re: [OHHAMILT] Associate Reformed Church
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    3. She actually lived in Newport. It was a second marriage for both of them. If Hugh is who I think he is, she is the mother of one of his daughters-in-law. They married in Cincinnati. I guess that makes her her daughter's step-mother-in-law? Hugh Lamont and Margaret MacNeillage married in Campbelltown, Argyll, Scotland and had a number of children. Three sons came to Cincinnati. James (age 21) came first in 1832 on the same ship with a William Anderson. Both were tailors. They established Lamont and Anderson Merchant Tailors. Hugh (52), David (22), Margaret (Dixon) Lamont, David's wife (21), and Roger (18) came in 1837. All were listed as tailors. Martha (Giffen) Dickson (40) also a tailor came in 1839. Both the ship record and the 1850 census give Hugh a later birth date than I have so I may have the wrong parents for him. Here is Martha's obituary: Died, July 19th, 1851, at the family residence, Newport, Kentucky, in the 60th year of her age, Martha, consort of Mr. Hugh Lamont, and mother of the Rev. Thomas Dickson, of the United Presbyterian Church, Caledon, C. W. The deceased was the daughter of Mr. James Giffen, a ruling elder of the United Presbyterian Church, Southend Kintyre. After leaving her father's house, she resided in Campbellton, and was a member of the United Presbyterian Church there, under the pastoral care of the Rev. James Boyd. In the summer of 1839, she emigrated to this country, and during her residence in this city and Newport, she has been a member of the Associate Reformed Church. She loved God's house, and when health permitted, she was sure to be there. Her disease, which was Chronic Inflammation of the stomach, baffled medical skill. Her sufferings were long and severe, but she bore them with much patience, and Christian resignation. God made her bed for her in sickness. Her afflictions were sanctified, and they have been to her better than a thousand years of sinful mirth. She was a dutiful wife, a fond and most exemplary mother, and by her kindness, amiability and piety, she made many warmly attached friends. She lived in the faith and hope of the Gospel, and died longing to be with her Saviour in glory. She died in the Lord—she rests from her labors, and her works follow her. She was lovely in life, but more so in death. She trusted to the last in the merit of the Savior, and her end was peace. Her Pastor, the Rev. James Prestley, improved the event, from the following words, which she repeated a short time before her decease,—" Into thine hand, I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O, Lord God of truth," Ps. 31: 5. She was followed to the place of interment by a numerous and respectable concourse of sympathizing fellow-citizens and Christian friends. Her relatives feel and lament her loss, but they rejoice that they are not called to sorrow as those who have no hope. She has often sown her seed in weeping, but she is now reaping the rich harvest of a mother's toil. Her children arise and call her blessed, and they hope yet to greet her where hope is swallowed up in fruition, and prayer in praise, Asleep in Jesus! 0 how sweet To be for such a slumber meet! With holy confidence to sing That death has lost his venom'd sting. Asleep in Jesus ! Oh for me May such a blissful refuge be ! Securely shall my ashes lie, Waiting the summons from on high. T. D. (32. Associate Reformed Presbyterian, south side Sixth, between Pi,aoe and Elm. Rev. James Prestley, pastor.)

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