Barkley Lamb was born on July 28, 1912 in Graves County, Kentucky. He was the second of ten children of Solon Davis Lamb and Myra Boyd Carr Lamb. Solon was a farmer and a brick setter. Myra was a homemaker. Solon was a native of Marshall County, Kentucky and Myra was a native of Graves County. Barkley was a descendant of Perry Thomas.
Barkley’s siblings were Lucille Lamb, born in 1910 and married Clarence Andrew Langenwalter; Lady Murriell Lamb, born in 1914 and married Girvous Lee Reed; Solon Carr Lamb, born in 1918 and married Minnie Lee Murphree; Davis Lamb, born in 1920 and died at the age of one day; Myra Marjorie Lamb, born in 1921 and married William Champe Marshall; Charles William Lamb, born in 1923 and died at the age of nine months; L. C. Lamb, born in 1924 and died at the age of two days; Norma Lou Lamb, born in 1926 and married Hiram Russell Murphree and later married Robert Frances Connolly; and Beulah Ann Lamb, born in 1927 and married Paul William Lemish and later married Donald M. Henry.
Barkley was born in Graves County, although his parents lived in Murray, Kentucky. Prior to 1920 the family moved to the Cuba community south of Mayfield, Kentucky where his father continued to work as a farmer. In the 1920s, the family moved to Mayfield where his father worked as a brick setter for the X. B. Wickersham Brick Company.
On Monday afternoon, December 12, 1927, Barkley was killed instantly when a shotgun accidentally discharged. Barkley was a 15-year-old, whose home was located just outside the city limits of Mayfield on the Fulton Highway near the brick company where his father worked. On that December afternoon, the boy had been told there were rabbits seen just a short distance from his home. He obtained his gun to go hunting for the rabbits. Coming out of his home, he noticed a truck that was in some slight trouble just in front of his home, and he stopped to talk to the occupants. He sat on the truck’s running board and leaned his gun against the truck, watching the driver adjust their vehicle. Barkley coughed and leaned over to clear his throat, and accidently knocked his gun toward the ground, causing the hammer to strike the running board. The shotgun went off striking him over the right eye and piercing his head resulting in the fatal injury.
Barkley’s death was one of several recent tragedies in the family of Solon Lamb. In the last few years, he had lost his wife and three of his children had died. Another of his sons, five-year-old Solon Carr Lamb had lost an eye a few months earlier in November 1926, when a dynamite cap exploded. Young Solon Carr had been playing on the railroad tracks near his home when he picked up a torpedo on the railroad right of way and it exploded. Bits of the torpedo struck him in the eye and face and "peppered" his body from his knees upward. One finger was also mangled. The youth was rushed to the Mayfield Hospital, where the right eye was removed and the fore finger of his left hand was amputated.
Barkley Lamb was buried in the Cuba Church of Christ Cemetery in Cuba, Kentucky.
LINEAGE: (Barkley Lamb was the son of Solon Davis and Myra Boyd Carr Lamb. Myra was the first child of Rufus Encelous and Louella Lancaster Carr. Louella was the first child of James Edwin and Peachie Ann Coleman Lancaster. Peachie was the fourth child of Alfred Boyd and Alpha Thomas Coleman. Alpha was the second child of Perry and Elizabeth Josephine Bridges Thomas. Perry was the third child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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