"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 344

SMITH LAMBERTEW, farmer, is a native of Owen County, Ind.;  was born
September 25,1841, his parents being Joseph and Mary Ann (Hart) Labertew, 
natives of Ohio, who came to Indiana in an early day and settled  near Gosport,
where Joseph Labertew died in 1846.  Mrs. Lebertew is still living, and is about 
eighty years of age.  Smith worked on the farm and attended school as a boy,
receiving a mediocre education.  September,1861, he enlisted in the Thirty-third
Indiana Regiment, became a veteran, and served in all nearly four years.  He was
detailed for hospital duty in 1863, and contnued therein until the end.  March 18,
1865, he was captured at Blackwater, S. C., and held eight days.  Soon after,
he was sent to Tennessee from Resaca with wounded men, and returned to hospital
duty at Resaca.  November 22, 1866, he married Asenath Lewallen, from which
union has resulted one child--Carl A.  Mr. Labertew came to this township in 1870,
settled where he now lives on 120 acres of well-improved land, the earning of his
own industry and care.  Mr. Labertew is a Master Mason;  in politics a Republican,
and, in company with his wife, a member of the Christian Church.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

    Source: geocities.com/heartland/meadows/8056/bios

               ( geocities.com/heartland/meadows/8056)                   ( geocities.com/heartland/meadows)                   ( geocities.com/heartland)