Category: NY Lawtons

Written by: Leo Lawton, as told to him by his Aunt Clara Lawton December 22, 2019 Glasgow, Montana At approximately 7 years of age, in 1918, Clara Lawton and her family moved by covered wagon to Glasgow, Montana. One covered wagon, one spring seat wagon, a hay wagon, three teams of horses, the family dog and a duck made the […]

Written by: Leo Lawton Oliver Lawton, born in 1739 was the great, great, grandson of Thomas Lawton the original immigrant to Rhode Island. Oliver took the big step and moved to the hinterlands of central New York in 1789. Oliver had 5 boys and probably a daughter, all born between 1762 and about 1780. I believe Oliver’s wife and all […]

Written by: Leo Lawton You may recall that when Benjamin Lawton, son of Oliver, moved north into the New York wilderness in the latter half of the first decade of the 1800s he was nearly 40 years of age, having been born in 1770. At this time, he had 3 children with 4 more to later arrive in the family. […]

Written By: Leo Lawton My grandfather had a twin named Wealtha. This is random information about her. The owner of the diary of Marcus Reed of East Watertown New York states: “It is completely full of handwritten entries for the year of 1893. I believe Marcus is a farmer/carpenter and general handyman. “In the diary is the following: “Wealthy Lawton […]

Written By: Lori Rienhardt February, 2023 after the death of her brother, Leo Eight older brothers I held so dear, One by one they began to disappear, First went Dell and then went Ron, So close together Bert, Bob and Jon, Then Fred and Larry leaving only one, Now that Leo is gone there are none. Four older sisters I […]

Written by: Lori Rienhardt March 13, 2023 My Dad’s name was Lloyd Benjamin Lawton. He was born in Pamelia, New York on August 27 1905. His family lived on the family dairy farm. When he was six, his family moved to Saskatchewan, Canada and then into Montana where they homesteaded. They returned to NYS when he was fourteen. That same […]

Written By: Lori Rienhardt March 17, 2023 My Mom’s name was Alice Pearl Halladay Lawton. She was born May 1 1906 on Arsenal Street in Watertown Ny. She was one of seven kids, although an older brother, Roy, died at age 4 so she only knew five siblings. They were Elsie May, Grace Lulabelle, Jay Payne, Ray Burton and Rose […]

Time inexorably goes on, and early in 1894 the aging Moses Fisk, who turned 81 April 27 that year, decided to sell the old home he and Hannah had known for more than thirty four years. In May he gave the old house a fresh coat of paint, in preparation for the sale, but he became ill with a severe […]

By: Leo Lawton June 22, 2010 Philo Lawton was born in 1818. The first documentation of his life that I have located is the 1850 United States Census report. At that time he was listed as 30 years old, but it is not unusual for error in census reports, as information was often given by children, friends, landlords, etc. Although […]