Category: Stories by Leo Lawton

Written By: Leo Lawton March 2, 2022 Mary was born November 21, 1931 in Ogdensburg, New York, the third child and eldest girl of the marriage of Lloyd Benjamin and Alice Pearl (Halladay) Lawton. She was raised as the daughter all parents love; pretty, witty, healthy, and loved by all. She attended and graduated from Ogdensburg Free Academy in June […]

Written 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 […]

Written 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 […]

Written 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 […]

Written by: Leo Lawton Without trying to be too boring is it okay to recall that by early 1639 Thomas Lawton immigrated to the New World Colony of Portsmouth, later to be a part of Rhode Island. Now comes the boring, but necessary to a genealogist, part. Thomas had a son Daniel, who had a son Benjamin, who had a […]

February 17, 2011 Written by: Leo Lawton Born during the latter years of the great depression in 1938, I lived through the remainder of that. I’ve lived through World War II, the Korean Conflict, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Viet Nam War, The Cold War, Desert Storm, The Iraq War, Afghanistan, and a few other skirmishes here and there. I’ve […]