from "Facts Regarding One Joseph Lake of Staten Island", Elmer G. Van Name, 18 Nov 1954, Misc->109.49.pdf


Margaret V. Lake of Wheeling, West Virginia, stated in
1939 that she is descended from Richard Lake who married
Mary Absalom in Mar.  1819 at St. Clairsville, Ohio, his
son William b. July 12,1822 who married Mary Elizabeth
Neff in 1852, and John R., her father.