Someone is gumming up the works and it has something to do with Eulalia Loggans Lamb, the second wife of Robert Lamb, whose wife Ellen Pollock possibly deserted him and ran way with a certain direct ancestor of ours who was very wicked in his younger days, our great-grandfather Carlton Calkins, whom we remember only dimly as that dotty old codger who was most of the time stored away in a nursing home and brought to the house only for special occasions. He was sort of senile but Grandpa Calkins seemed to have him well under control most of the time except when he was kicked out of one nursing home for being too rowdy. He had to be moved to a different nursing home that would take him. Ella Pollock already had five Lamb children so she did not need to ruin her life in that way but it is a sad story in the annals of history that we cannot erase or entirely ignore. No one ever said anything about that to me. I only learned of these facts through research. Grandpa Calkins' mother, Ella Marsella Collins, died in 1915, after which the Grandpa Calkins and his two brothers were placed in an orphanage in Pasadena. It appears that while they were living in an orphanage in Pasadena, our great-grandfather was living in Fresno in some other family arrangement of which we were not aware until now. Oh, I didn't know that but there are clues in the 1920 census. He had remarried quite soon after in 1915 a second wife, Mrs. Ella Lamb, nee Pollock, (d. 1971) who had apparently deserted her husband, Robert Le Roy Lamb (d. 1943), having taken at least some of the Lamb children with her. Robert's second wife was Eulalia Loggans, a Mississippi-born woman who died at Fairbanks, Louisiana, in 1965.
And then again there is the Ruth Lamb living with her grandmother, Ella Pollock, in Idaho in 1920. I don't know what the connection is there.
And why would we want to be hearing from the nasty wicked Lamb children ever again in this lifetime given the icky nature of our family connection? Eulalia might have been the Lamb children's stepmother but she was not related to us in any way, nor were we even aware of these self-absorbed, spoiled rotten Lamb children who never were important to us anyway, not being even aware of their existence, nor are we yet impressed with their snarky attitudes. I have no reason to imagine that I owe any allegiance whatsoever to this horrible Lamb-Loggans conglomerate.
If you want to take a speck out of your own eye I suggest that you first remove this monstrous Lamb-Loggans out of your own eye and then you will see your own Mississippi wretchedness. You don't really have anything on us do you? It was all just your delusion.
