• 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

• Alternate Mark.

• Apprenticed: William Huntington, about 1821, in Hillsborough NC. ²⁵

• Cutten/NC: 1828, in Hillsborough NC. 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

• Partnership: John and William Huntington, in 1834-1836, in Hillsborough NC. As a part of WM & JOHN HUNTINGTON. ²⁵

• Advertised: Hillborough Recorder, on 2 Jul 1834, in Orange NC. "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: Justice of the Peace, in 1841, in Hillsborough NC. ²⁵

• Master: Thomas M. Lynch, about 1842, in Hillsborough NC. ²⁵

• Master: Lemuel George Lynch, about 1845, in Hillsborough NC. ²⁵

• Master: Seabourn J. Lynch, in Hillsborough NC. ²⁵

• He appeared on the census in 1850 in Orange NC. Listed as a jeweler.

• He appeared on the census in 1860 in Hillsborough NC. Listed as a jeweler and farmer.

• He appeared on the census in 1860 in Hillsborough NC. Listed as a jeweler.

• He appeared on the census in 1880 in 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.)