Lawton Family History and Information
Written By: Leo Lawton One of the ways the youngsters could earn a small amount of money was to capture gophers. The government paid ¼ cent bounty for each gopher tail presented for payment. Lloyd and Floyd earned school clothes money in this manner. Most children went barefoot all summer, saving their shoes for winter usage. On one occasion the […]
Read moreWritten By: Leo Lawton It was about 1945. Our family cut firewood to heat our home. Each year about January it was time to cut a winter’s supply for the following year. By staying a year ahead we always had seasoned wood to burn. That brings me to mind that my Dad had a heavy fur coat that he called […]
Read moreWritten By: Leo Lawton Born and raised by my parents, I knew them well during their lifetimes. I also knew my father’s father, and my mother’s mother. I knew nothing of their ancestors. In my adult years I was curious about my ancestry, but like so many others I was far too busy living to research dead kin. Then came […]
Read moreWritten By: Leo Lawton February 2, 2021 Philo Lawton of Chaumont, Jefferson County, New York, born in 1818 married Catherine Clark of the same village in 1853, and by 1864 they had five children born unto them. I’ve never found it so, but I believe Philo was probably a victim of the Civil War that had been raging for several […]
Read moreWritten By: Leo Lawton November 27, 2005I have come to liken my circulatory system to my past, present, and future. I am my heart, my present, and the center of my universe. As my heart accepts blood from my veins, oxygenates it, and pumps it through my arteries, I absorb the blood from my ancestors, enrich it, and pass it […]
Read moreWritten by: Leo Lawton My grandfather Will, and his younger brother Fred, came to our farm for an extended visit. I was around six years old at the time so it must have been about 1944. Grandpa was born in 1866, and Uncle Fred two years later, so they would have been about 78 and 76 respectively. They rode the […]
Read moreWritten by: Leo Lawton At age 16, in 1860, Nancy Fletcher married Thomas Morton in Iowa. In mid 1864 Thomas, in partnership with Nancy’s brother William Fletcher and their cousin John Fletcher, set out on an extended freight shipping trip to Denver, hundreds of miles west through Indian Territory. Nancy, not yet twenty, went along on the journey. They wended […]
Read moreWritten by: Leo Lawton During the years from 1868-1878 The Country of Cuba was in a Revolutionary War with Spain called the ten years war. In 1872 the following 5 people were registered with the US Consulate at Havana, Cuba. Harriet L Lawton, Henry Douglas Lawton, Hester Lawton, James Marsland Lawton, and Lucia L Lawton. It is unknown what, if […]
Read moreWritten by: Leo LAwton December 22, 2010 The girl with the shining black hair was Regina Mae Aldrich, and she was about three weeks past her 16th birthday when she married my oldest brother Bert in October of 1948. Bert was 21, had spent three years in the Navy on a ship fighting its way across the islands of the […]
Read moreWritten By: Leo Lawton The search for ancestry where often few records exist. A great deal of the research for this article was completed by Jeanette Williams of Florida. The Lawton Ledger, and its readers, is eternally grateful to her for sharing with us. The information for this article was extremely difficult to research, and may possibly prove to have […]
Read more