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From: "Czerniak, James, SSG, 217EIS, ISE" <>
Subject: RE: [Lawson List] Andrew J.(9/12/1844 TN - IL)(3), John (2), Jesse (1) Lawson
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:13:08 -0600


Obit #1
Here goes...
"Andrew Jackson Lawson, Eldest child of Jno and Claire Miller Lawson was
born in east Tennessee Sept 28 1845 and died at his home at Rock Falls, ILL
at 8:10 am Nov 26, 1912, aged 67 years 1 month and 27 days,after an illness
of more than a year with Bright's disease.
He was twice married his first wife dying about thirty eight years ago. Oct
23, 1877, he and Mrs Amanda Aldridge, who survives, were married.To this
union were born seven children, one daughter, Mrs Clara Axley, died in this
city about six years ago, where the family resided prior to their removal to
Rock Falls.
The surviving children are Mrs Roy England, Mrs Fulton Bradshaw, and Mrs
Chas. Blake, all of Rock Falls; Albert, William, and Martha, at home.
The survivng brothers and sisters are Arkley of White Hall; Fayette, of Hill
View; Marion of West Fork, ARK; Wm. of New Bloomfield, MO; Henry of Des
(unk) and Mrs. Elvada Ellison, widow of Wm. Ellison, of Carrolton vicinity.
Benj. Lawson of White Hall is a nephew of the desceased.
As a young man Mr Lawson united with the Christian church and remained a
faithful consistent member until death. He was an honest, industrious man, a
kind and loving husband and father.
____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________
Obit #2
A.J. Lawson, Soldier in Confederate Army Buried by G.A.R.

FORMER WHITE HALL CITIZEN

A.J. Lawson, formerly of this city, who died at his home at Rock Falls, ILL.
Nov 26, 1912, though a Confederate soldier was buried with national honors
Thanksgiving day. A clipping from one of the Rock Falls papers contained the
following account:
" Besides the relatives present, there were a number of neighbors and
friends of the family and the local G.A.R. Post attended in a body,
participating as pall bearers and mourners. Rev. Roy A. Miller delivered a
short funeral discourse and the exercises at the grave were out of the
ordinary and would have been impossible not many years ago. Mr. Lawson, when
a young man enlisted in the Confederate army, belonging to the Tennessee
regiment, and fought for three years during the late unpleasantness. That in
itself would have been sufficient to bar him from any honors at the hands of
the members of the G.A.R., but it was different yesterday. As soon as it was
learned that Mr. Lawson was sick and that he was a veteran of the Civil war,
members of the local post G.A.R. looked him up. His body, before being
placed in the casket was draped in the national colors, the property of the
local post and later the coffin was so draped. Six members of the G.A.R.
acted as pall bearers and the post bugler sounded taps at the grave-side.
Mr. Taylor, residing at Sterling ILL also a Confederate veteran and member
of the 12th Tennessee regiment was invited to participate in the obsequies,
and accepted the invitation. This custom, put in practice yesterday for the
first time in this vicinity, is one that is also common in the South when a
Union veteran passes away, and is an indication that the enmity engendered
by the war, has died out, and that those who fought each other so bitterly
in the 60's now consider themselves brothers and demean themselves with true
brotherly spirit."

These both came out of the White Hall newspaper. I cannot remember the name
of the paper.


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Just posting this from Greene Co, IL in case it could help someone:

BIOGRAPHIES 1905 PAST and PRESENT OF GREENE COUNTY ILLINOIS

Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.

Page 592

ANDREW J. LAWSON, who is connected with industrial interests in White Hall,
where he is following the carpenter's trade,
was born September 12, 1844, in Tennessee. His paternal grandfather, Jesse
Lawson, was of Scotch lineage. The father, John
Lawson, after arriving at years of maturity married a daughter of William
Miller, who was of Holland-Dutch lineage. Andrew J.
Lawson pursued his education in the public schools of his native county and
there remained until the beginning of the Civil war.
He came to White Hall in 1863, but previous to this time he had enlisted as
a
soldier in Company E, Twenty-eighth Tennessee
Infantry. He was captured in Kentucky, was brought to Louisville and there
released on parole, after which he made his way
northward, establishing his home in Greene county. He became a resident of
White
Hall in 1871 and has lived here continuously
since, following the occupation of carpentering, to which he was reared.

On the 16th of June, 1872, Mr. Lawson was united in marriage to Miss Amanda
J.
Aldridge, a daughter of William Aldridge, a
native of Tennessee. They have six children: Mary J., Clarissa, Albert, Eva,
Lydia and William. The eldest daughter if the wife
of James England and they have one child. Clarissa is the wife of John Axley
and
they have two children.

Mr. Lawson exercised his right of franchise in support of the men and
measures
of the Democracy, but has never been an
aspirant for public office, preferring to give his undivided attention to
his
business affairs. He is a man of more than ordinary
intelligence, honesty and industry and has made for himself an excellent
reputation during the third of a century in which he has
been a resident of White Hall.

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