• Born: 15 Apr 1808, Back Creek NC
• Marriage (1): Margaret Palmer on 25 Sep 1828 in Hillsborough NC
• Died: 19 Sep 1893, Hillsborough NC

  General notes:

Silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• Alternate Mark ²⁵

• Apprenticed about 1821 to William Huntington in Hillsborough NC ²⁵
  

• Hillsborough NC, 1828: after apprenticeship, purchased the stock and materials and rented tools of his master. ²⁵

• He worked in 1828-1832 as a silversmith in Greensboro NC ²⁵

• He worked in 1832-1834 as a silversmith in Concord NC ²⁵

• He was a partner in 1834-1836 with John and William Huntington in Hillsborough NC as a part of WM & JOHN HUNTINGTON. ²⁵

• Advertised in the Hillborough Recorder (Orange NC), 2 Jul 1834, "WANTED: AS AN APPRENTICE to the Watch Making and Silversmith's trade, a boy fourteen or fifteen years of age."
  

• He worked in 1836-1881 as a silversmith in Hillsborough NC a ledger book for this period is in the collection of Duke University. ²⁵

• Appointed in 1841 as Justice of the Peace in Hillsborough NC ²⁵

• Master to Thomas M. Lynch Abt 1842 in Hillsborough NC. ²⁵

• Master to Lemuel George Lynch Abt 1845 in Hillsborough NC. ²⁵

• Master to Seabourn J. Lynch in Hillsborough NC. ²⁵

• He appeared on the 1850 census taken at Orange NC, listed as a jeweler.

• He appeared on the 1860 census taken at Hillsborough NC, listed as a jeweler and farmer.

• He appeared on the 1860 census taken at Hillsborough NC, listed as a jeweler.

• He appeared on the 1880 census taken at Hillsborough NC, listed as a watchmaker and jeweler.

Lemuel married Margaret Palmer on 25 Sep 1828 in Hillsborough NC. (Margaret Palmer was born about 1809 in Orange NC.)