Randolph Lawson

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Randolph Lawson

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Patrick County,VA
Death: circa 1870 (62-71)
Missouri, United States
Place of Burial: Missouri, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Randolph Lawson and Susannah Lawson
Husband of Mary Lawson
Father of Malinda B. Shaw; Marilda Lawson and Mahala Lawson
Brother of Elizabeth “Millie” Phillips; Catherine “Kattie” “Lakey” Chambers; Elisha Lawson; Mary Louise Pruitt; Maggie Lawson and 5 others

Managed by: Erica Howton
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About Randolph Lawson

  • Parents: Randolph Lawson b: 1752 & Susannah Cross b: 1775

Married

  1. Mary Devers b: 29 Aug 1806 in Virginia

Children

  1. Malinda b: 19 Jan 1838 in Clinton, Kentucky. 1. William Hampton Prewitt 2. Jesse Lawson 3. Geo. W. Shaw
  2. Matilda b: 20 Jun 1839 in Clinton, Kentucky. married 1. James Sutcliff 2. Francis Hiram Woods
  3. Marilda b: 6 Dec 1840 in Burksville, Clinton, Kentucky. Married Landram Lewis Lawson
  4. Melissa b: 21 Mar 1843 in Clinton, Kentucky. married 1. Unknown Tabor.
  5. Mahala b: 3 Feb 1845 in Tennessee. married 1. Jesse Lawson
  6. Minerva b: 3 Feb 1845 in Tennessee
  7. William b: 1849 in Tennessee

Notes

From https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lesliesc...

Tennessee Archives Anderson County-Book 4-pg330-East Tenn. Dist. Grant 2796 The State of Tennessee

To all to whom these presents shall come greetings that in of an entry ma de in the office of the survey or of the fourth district of number 758 dat ed the 15th day of November, 1810 founded on a certificate of number 28 is sued by the register of East Tennessee to Micajah Cross for four hundred a cres of land dated the fifth day of January, 1810 fifty acres of which a re assigned by Cross to William Lawson and one acre by William Lawson to R andolph Lawson. There is granted by the said state of Tennessee unto the s aid Randolph Lawson and his heirs a certain tract a parcel of land contain ing one acre lying in the county of Anderson in the district of Hamilt on on Paint Creek waters of the New River beginning at a hickory and bu ck on the south side of the buck thence north forty four east sixteen pol es to a white oak north forty six west poles to a dogwood south forty fo ur west sixteen poles to a spruce pine then south forty six east ten pol es to the beginning of survey September 16th, 1811 with the and appurtenan ces to have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with its appurten ances to the said Randolph Lawson and his heirs forever. In witness where of Willie Blount, Governor of the State of Tennessee hath here unto set h is hand and caused the oath of the said state to be affixed at Nashvil le in the day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred a nd thirteen and of
Willie Blount State of Tennessee Campbell County Scale 100 poles to the inch By virtue of an entry no. 189 dated the 12th day of Aug,1824, I have surve yed for Randolph Lawson twelve acres land including a part of his improvem ent where he now lives on Paint Rock Creek in said county beginning on a w eeping willow tree standing yard and running thence north 180 east 40 pol es to a stake in his nld line in his field north 54° east 6 poles to a map le and sweet gum South 46° east 41 poles to a stake South 18° west 47 pol es to a stake thence North 46~west 46 poles to the beginning as represent ed by the plat-surveyed 30th August, 1824 Allen McDonald-scc Rich'd D. Wheeler-scc James Jeffries -scc By his Dept. Jas. Hart October 17th, 1832 A true copy Test. Rich'd D. Wheeler-Scc By his Dep Jas. Hart

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Randolph Lawson's Timeline

1803
1803
Patrick County,VA
1838
January 18, 1838
Burksville,Clinton County,Kentucky
1840
December 6, 1840
Burkesville, Cumberland, Kentucky, United States
1845
February 3, 1845
Tennessee, United States
1870
1870
Age 67
Missouri, United States
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Missouri, United States