Category: NY Lawtons

Watertown Daily Times, Tuesday Afternoon, July 9, 1928 Lawton Annual Reunion Held At Thompson Park The annual Lawton reunion was held at Thompson Park Wednesday. Clark Lawton offered prayer. Mr. And Mrs. V. McGovern read a memorial for those that had passed away. After lunch a business meeting was held and new officers were elected for the coming year. Among […]

Written By: Leo Lawton July 24, 2011 Lloyd Benjamin Lawton was born August 27, 1905. Alice Pearl Halladay was born May 1, 1906. They became a twosome when they married June 20, 1925. July 13, 1927 their first child, a son, Lloyd Burton Lawton was born, and now there were three. Two years later, Lawrence Bernard Lawton was born on […]

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 […]

Written 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 […]

Written by: Leo Lawton February 25, 1940—January 2, 1942.I’m starting to write this about 1:30 in the afternoon, January 2, 2010. It was approximately this same time of the day, 68 years ago, that a short series of events began that led to the death of my younger sister Dixie. Although it is with special reverence I think of her […]

Bert’s Navy Written by: Leo Lawton October 12, 2022 Lloyd Burton Lawton (Bert)July 13, 1927—June 11, 1994 Bert may have died many years ago, but he is far from forgotten in the annals of time. Hardly a day passes that I don’t think about him. When Bert started farming in 1949, on a five year leased farm, I, as an […]

Written by: Leo Lawton October 14, 2016 Have you ever heard of the Sampson Military Base? During WW II recruits were entering the various military services at record rates, and the Recruit Training Centers were being overwhelmed. In order to keep the system under control new facilities were erected in areas where there had never been military prior. Sampson became […]

Written by: Leo Lawton March 20, 2014 When Oliver and Ann Lawton traveled the arduous journey through the woods and trails from Rhode Island to the New York wilderness in 1789 their five sons and daughter were with them.  Their third child, born the last day of May 1795, was a son which they named Job. Job grew to be […]

Written by: Leo Lawton Sepetember 1, 2017 After the King George III Loyalists fled, the heavily in debt New York State confiscated their lands and sold them at public auction as a form of raising money to pay the war debts. The Revolutionary War veteran, 60 year old Oliver Lawton, along with his wife, 5 sons, and a daughter, came […]

Written by: Leo Lawton April 14, 2016 Lloyd Lawton His: William Benjamin Lawton married Mary Elizabeth Houghton December 4, 1889. Born unto them July 11, 1891 was a son Clarence Elijah Lawton, followed November 10, 1894 by a second son Clinton Wilson Lawton. Mary died May 29, 1895 leaving Will with two infant sons living with Mary’s parents. Hers: Cora […]