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From: WILMA PADGETT <>
Subject: Re: Lawson family tree & Stirling Scotland
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 07:35:42 -0700


Which history book did you read? My Lawsons helped make this a better
world for me to live in. They were interested in this country, voting,
education, God, and when it got to my grandfather's generation they were
not drunkards. I do not know about the others.

Wilma Lawson Padgett

wrote:
>
> Hello,
> The only thing I know is what I learned from my old college history book,
> that the Lawsons were a bunch of Scotts-Irish, that were loud, boisterous and
> drunkards that pushed their selves from the Eastern seaboard, unhappy with
> the lack of land available and they pushed their way into Appalachia. The
> Lawsons I know; some are against drinking, most are very religious, and they
> are all strict!
> I didn't hear the stories your brother talked about.
> Seeya,
> Linda T
>
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