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From: "Candy Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] LAWRENCE (Rick)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 19:35:24 -0600
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Hi Peggy,

Thanks for the very, very interesting note. My Lawrence line did come out
of Virginia/North Carolina beginning with James lawrence/Laurence who was
born in 1788. There is a large contingent of Lawrence's coming out of this
region. But as of this writing, no one that I am aware of has been able to
establish who his parents were for certain. Because of that, it is
impossible to clearly ID his siblings/cousins/uncles etc.

This Jesse Lawrence, while I am aware of him (but not all the info you
sent!) is more likely than not some relation to my James. I distant relative
of his contacted me years ago and I sent him my Lawrence family line for his
research and he included it in his work, which he then posted on
Ancestry.com - making all my work look as if it is his. It is now used by
dozens of other people on their family trees which, in the spirit of sharing
is okay of course but my vanity still gets irritated as it is afterall, my
work.

I will keep this info and use it for research as there is a lot of stuff
there that can give me some areas to search!

Rick Lawrence - Tulsa, OK
.
----- Original Message -----
From: "PEGGY TRUESDELL" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] LAWRENCE (Rick)


> Found this online and thought of you, wondering if you're connected to
> this
> gentleman: Jesse LAWRENCE, 1786 - 1862.
>
> Peggy
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> lawrence family history
> *
> * REV. JESSE LAWRENCE
>
> Jesse Lawrence (1 Jan 1786 - 17 July 1862) was the youngest of 11 children
> born to John and Ann Needham Larrance. His eldest sibling, Edward
> Lawrence,
> was married the same month Jesse was born, and his grandfather, Edward
> Larrance,
> of Fauquier Co. VA, died a couple months later. By the age of 14, Jesse
> had
> also lost his father, but having six elder brothers, Jesse did not lack
> for
> father figures.
> At about age 19, Jesse married Hannah Edwards (17 Apr 1787 - 20 Feb 1810),
> daughter of John and Eleanor Edwards. Before Hannah met an untimely death,
> three children were born to the couple. Thus, at age 24, Jesse found
> himself a
> widower with three small children. His mother surely helped him with the
> children until Jesse remarried in Dec. 1811 to a young widow, Ruth
> (Mathews)
> Marley. Ruth had a daughter by her previous marriage, Polly Marley
> (~1803-1824), whom Jesse helped raise, and Jesse and Ruth had 2 sons.
> The Lawrences were all prosperous and active in the community, and Jesse
> was no exception. He was a farmer; the 1815 Randolph Co. NC tax list
> showed him
> with 629 acres of land. Additionally, per his father’s will, Jesse was to
> receive the land and plantation of his father, containing “four and twenty
> four
> acres” after the death of Ann Needham Lawrence (she died in 1829, and
> Jesse no
> doubt took care of his mother in her latter days). It is interesting to
> note
> that Jesse was also willed “One Still and its emplements.”
> One can only guess how Jesse felt as, one by one, his brothers and sisters
> moved on to other counties and states. His brother Richard left for
> Tennessee
> about 1809. William left for Indiana during the next decade, and around
> 1815,
> Edward, Jonathan and Nancy left for Alabama. Needham left around the same
> time,
> possibly just moving one county over, to Chatham. Around 1836 Peter left
> for
> Indiana. Surviving letters written by a son-in-law of William allude to
> the
> fact that the brothers maintained contact through letters, but it is
> doubtful
> that they were able to visit in the flesh.
> In the spring of 1839, Jesse’s son, William M. Lawrence, applied for a
> divorce from his wife, Mary Shamburger Lawrence. Jesse signed the
> prosecution
> bond along with William. No doubt a painful time for the family, the
> proceeding
> dragged along for two years, until the divorce was granted Spring term
> 1841on
> the basis of fraud (on the part of the Shamburgers) in the marriage
> contract,
> and Mary’s unsuitablility for the marriage state. Following the divorce,
> William moved to GA with his young son, but his daughter, Elizabeth,
> remained
> behind and was raised by Jesse and Ruth Lawrence.
> Jesse’s signature is found on many documents as either a witness or as
> security. In 1847 he was on a school district committee. At some point, he
> became a Methodist minister, and was influential in starting the First
> Methodist
> Church in Asheboro, NC. Jesse’s home was obviously one of religious
> devotion. Two of his grandsons became influential ministers in the
> Christian
> Church, an offshoot of the Methodist Church.
>
> In his latter years, Jesse lived in Asheboro. He probably moved there
> after 1838, when he deeded some 344 acres on Fork Creek in lower Randolph
> Co. to
> his son Isaac Lawrence. The 1850 census enumerates him as a Methodist
> minister
> in Asheboro. On 5 Nov. 1858, Jesse gave bond to keep an ordinary at
> Asheboro,
> and was bound to “constantly find and provide, in his said ordinary, good
> and
> wholsome diet and lodging for travellers, and stable, fodder, corn and
> pastorage
> for their horses, for and during the term of one year.”
> The story passed down is that Jesse suffered a stroke while preaching at
> the pulpit, and died several days later. He passed away about 4 in the
> morning
> on a Friday at the age of 76. Although that was a ripe old age for the
> time,
> the Lawrences tended to be long lived for their times, and Jesse
> apparently had
> no forewarning of his impending death, for he left no will. He was buried
> at
> City Cemetery in Asheboro,Randolph,NC. His widow, Ruth, applied for her
> year’s support and dower, and among the items allotted to her were: one
> lot of
> books, one wash stand bowl, stove, cutting knife, heifer yearling, garden
> tools,
> cupboard, tableware, settee, wooden clock, 2 beds, bedsteads & furniture,
> 2
> tables and a half dozen chairs.
> It is of interest to note the metamorphisis of Jesse’s surname. His
> father and grandfather appear to have used the spelling Larrance. In an
> 1815
> guardian bond for Polly Marley, Jesse signed as LARRENCE, as did his
> brothers,
> Jonathan and Edward, who were security. The 1838 deed to his son spelled
> the
> name LARRANCE, as did the 1847 school district committee list. The 1858
> ordinary license had LAWRENCE, as did Ruth’s petition for her year’s
> support.
> Although Lawrence is most common, both spellings are still used today.
> There is a small silver cup, engraved with the initials J (or I), S and L,
> which was passed to Jesse from his father. In keeping with the tradition
> that
> the cup go to the youngest son, Jesse passed the cup to his son Spinks
> Lawrence. As Spinks had no children, the cup passed to a nephew, Rev.
> William
> Wesley Lawrence, whose line still possesses it.
> Jesse’s eldest child was Eleanor ( “Nellie”), born 9 Sept 1805 and died 29
> May 1893. She married Charles Moffitt in 1826 and had eight children. Her
> sons
> Hugh, Jesse L., Ben F. and Henry C. all fought in the War Between the
> States,
> and only Henry returned. Daughter Hannah died as a young woman, but Nellie’s
> other daughters, Rebecca Cox, Sarah Cox, and Martha E. Goley, all had
> large
> families, and Nellie has many descendants in Randolph County today.
> After Nellie came Isaac Lawrence, born 2 May 1807 and died 9 Sept 1785. In
> 1826 he married Martha (“Patsey”) Macon. They had six children: Mary
> Harmon
> Cox, Nancy Albright, Rev. John Stanford Lawrence, Jesse Lawrence (died in
> infancy), Rev. William Wesley Lawrence, and Hannah R. Leach.
> Jesse’s third child was Rebecca, born 11 May 1809 and died 24 June 1887.
> She married Hugh Moffitt in 1827 and had at least four children: Eli,
> Charles,
> John and Nancy. Not much is known of Rebecca’s family, but some of her
> sons
> appear to have been Confederate soldiers as well.
> William Marley Lawrence was the next child. He was born 18 Nov 1812 and
> died 1902 in Union County, GA. He married Mary Shamburger in 1830. Their
> son,
> Thomas Kelly Lawrence, died at Gettysburg and his descendants are unknown.
> Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1837 and remained with her
> grandfather
> Jesse after her parents’ divorce. She married Dr. Frank Andrews, but never
> had
> any children. After Dr. Andrews died, Elizabeth moved to GA to live with
> her
> father and step-siblings. William had remarried in 1866 to Mary Ann
> England and
> had another son and daughter, Jesse Richard and Eliza Lawrence.
> The youngest child of Rev. Jesse Lawrence was Enoch Spinks Lawrence,
> called
> Spinks. He was born 7 June 1817 and died 27 May 1892. He married Mary F.
> Andrews in 1849; they had no children. Spinks was a farmer and was for a
> time
> deputy sheriff in Randolph County. Because he possessed the silver cup
> during
> his lifetime, Spinks at times would receive letters from kinfolk who were
> interested in the cup and its history
> Sources: Family Bibles, census, Randolph County marriage records, deeds,
> wills, & miscellaneous records, family letters, family tradition, cemetery
> records.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Vera Reeves <>
> To:
> Sent: Mon, February 7, 2011 12:39:10 PM
> Subject: [ARIZARD] Obits - Janis
>
> Thanks for posting the older obituaries.
>
>
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