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CO F 19 AR INF CSA
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John was the father of Viola Ann Lawrence who married Ola's brother, Daniel.
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I have not been able to locate a marriage record for James & Martha.
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In the 1870 census is Rachel Lawrence , but not Viola (their daughter). It's possible this was Viola under a different name. Viola is not to be confused with his second wife Oceola 'Ola' Rogers Lawrence.
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John was born when his father was 49.
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Arkansas Confederate Veterans & Widows Pension Applications
Veteran's number: 23527
Veteran's name: Lawrence, J. W.
Widow's number: 23527
Widow's name: Lawrence, Ola
Company: F
Regiment: 19
Division: AR-I
Date: 1862-1865
Veteran applied: 08/21/1915
Widow applied: 07/15/1927
County: Union
Veteran dececed: 05/03/1927
Widow dececed: 10/30/1934
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He is not listed on any rolls I can find. I don't know if either application was approved.
He does not have a C.S.A. marker.
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Dockery's 19th Arkansas Regiment was organized on April 2, 1862, at DeValls Bluff, with Col. Hamilton P. Smead in command.[1] The regimental quartermaster was Capt. Thomas P. Dockery, future brigadier-general. The regiment comprised ten companies from Columbia, Hot Spring, Lafayette, Ouachita and Union counties.
Company F, Commanded by Captain W. C. Langford, organized at El Dorado, Arkansas on March 1, 1862
Soon after being organized, the regiment was ordered to Mississippi, along with the rest of General Earl Van Dorn's Army of the West. After settling in at Camp Churchill Clark, near Corinth, Mississippi, the 19th Arkansas was reorganized for the war and new officers were elected. All of the original field officers were thrown out in the election of May 12, 1862, and in their place the men elected Col. Thomas P. Dockery, Lieut. Col. William H. Dismukes, and Maj. Horatio G. P. Williams.
The unit participated in the Battle of Corinth and the Battle of Hatchie Bridge, and reported 129 casualties. Later it was attached to General M. E. Green's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.
Colonel Dockery was placed in command of Second Brigade, Bowen's Division, and so actual field command of the 19th Arkansas Regiment devolved upon Lieutenant-Colonel Dismukes, who led the regiment through the terrible battles that preceded the Siege of Vicksburg. The 19th Arkansas fought at Battle of Port Gibson, Battle of Champion's Hill, and the Battle of Big Black River Bridge, where Lieutenant-Colonel Dismukes was mortally wounded and most of the regiment was captured. Major Horatio Gates Perry Williamson was promoted to lieutenant-colonel after Dismukes' death, and the uncaptured remnant of the 19th Arkansas fell back to Vicksburg, where it was surrendered and paroled when the city fell on July 4, 1863.
The regiment was exchanged back in Arkansas, and, when Colonel Dockery was appointed brigadier-general, Lieutenant-Colonel Williamson was promoted to colonel, commanding regiment. After being exchanged, the regiment was reorganized and mounted. It was placed in Dockery's and Roane's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and saw action at the Battle of Marks' Mills. The 19th Arkansas was consolidated with other decimated Arkansas regiments to form the 3rd Consolidated Arkansas Infantry. The consolidated regiment was assigned along with the 1st and 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiments to the 2nd (McNair`s) Arkansas Brigade, 1st (Churchill`s) Arkansas Division, 2nd Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department, from September 1864 to May 1865.
(From Wikipedia)
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El Dorado News-Times, June 1, 1975, page unknown: (according to Dan Page)
The following article I have a photocopy in my posession. It doesn't state a date, but I estimate it to be between 1969 & 1975.
"Found In Old Newspapers"
by Clayte Whitten
NOTE: The article, in it's entirety, not transcribed here. Only the info relating to J.W. Lawrence was copied.
"On Wednesday, May 4 (1927), was a story that was to continue to make front page for nearly a week. It seems that an elderly man, John Lawrence, had been missing from his home some eight miles west of El Dorado on the Magnolia Highway (old highway) since Tuesday morning, when he told members of his son's family that he was going out to look for some cows.
At first it was a neighborhood search, but shortly recruits from both Union and Columbia counties were combing the woods. The paper said more than 100 persons at a time kept up the 72 hour search before the man's body was found in a shallow pool of water beneath a dismantled railroad trestle converted into a cattle guard. Lawrence, who was a veteran of the War Between the States, was so feeble he walked with a cane and was nearly blind. He apparently fell while attempting to cross on the weed-covered logs.
On Friday, his body was discovered by Cheatham Gaddy and John Primm at the spot more than a mile from his home. He was described as "being one of the most highly respected persons in that area" and as a member of one of the pioneer families of the county. It was pointed out that the aged man's father was among the group that cut the first road between El Dorado and Magnolia."
The thing to do now is locate the original series of articles from 1927. While researching at the El Dorado library several times in 2009 I never found an obit for John.
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1880 Van Buren Township, Union Co., AR
· Household Gender Age
· Self John Lawrence M 35
· Spouse Oceola Lawrence F 22
· Child Biola A. Lawrence F 13
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· 1900 Van Buren Township, Union Co., AR
· Household Gender Age
· Self J W Lawrence M Nov 1856 AL AL AL
· Spouse Ola Lawrence F May 1858 AR GA GA
· Child Lauresie Lawrence F Mar 1882 AR AL AR
· Child Minnie Lee Lawrence F Dec 1883
· Child Paul Lawrence M May 1886
· Child Amanda Lawrence F May 1888
· Child Ada Lawrence F May 1890
· Child John W. Lawrence M
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1910 Van Buren Township, Union Co., AR
· Household Gender Age
· Self John C Lawrence M 67y AL NY TN
· spouse Ola Lawrence F 51y AR GA GA
· son Paul Lawrence M 23y
· son Jim Lawrence M 13y
· dau Mandy Piles F 21
· gdau Leola Piles F 2
· gson Paul Piles M 1
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· 1920 Van Buren Township, Union Co., AR
· Household Gender Age
· John W Lawrence M 76y
· Spouse Ola Lawrence F 62y
· Child James H Lawrence M 23y
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See Ola for 1930.
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