Lawton Family History and Information
This biography appeared in the Volume 3, 1997/98 issue of The Lawton Chronicles, of the Lawton Heritage Society, of Church Lawton, Cheshire, England. An 18th Century Planter of Edsito Island, South Carolina – of English Origin. By Thomas O. Lawton Jn. 1997 By way of personal introduction, I am the current president of the South Carolina Lawton Family Association. Parties […]
Read moreby: Leo Lawton The War for Independence was over! The colonists had broken from what they considered the oppressive rule of England. It was a time for healing among those who had argued the merits of complete separation versus remaining within England’s protective umbrella. New York State was deeply in debt from the costs of waging war. It was decided […]
Read moreBIOGRAPHIES OF VAN BUREN CO., MICHIGAN RESIDENTS in 1912 From VAN BUREN COUNTY MICHIGAN By Captain O. W. Rowland Volume II Published by the Lewis Publishing Company Chicago and New York 1912 Charles De Witt Lawton – The death of Charles De Witt Lawton, which occurred August 24, 1909, removed from Michigana man who had long been prominent in the […]
Read moreLawton Biographies Transcribed by Leo Lawton from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. HARVEY M. LAWTON, who owns and resides in a comfortable home at 817 Kansas Street in Larned, is an old timer of Pawnee County, where he arrived in 1877. He came […]
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