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Note: N3167 Vinyard and Julian Losson (Lawson) are enumerated in the 1850 Walker County, Alabama Census taken in the 11th District, 4 December 1850. Her age is given 28 years and born in Alabama.
The spelling of her name varies in the census and documents that I have seen with her name on them. I believe the correct spelling is Julia Ann.
As for her date of birth and age, we have the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 Walker County, Alabama census to use to make a guess. They indicate she was born around 1819 to 1822.
Vera Bell Fike supplied a copy of two pages from a Family Bible which I believe belong at one time to George A. and Sarah Ann (Lawson) Myers, (her source was not identified, but possibly from William Alexander "Alex" Fike's family) which list George and Sarah`s marriage date, their family member's birth dates, marriage and birth dates of her sister, Nancy J. (Lawson) Hunt`s family, and there are a number of the Fike`s family members in it. The interesting part is on the page that listed births. It has at the bottom of the page Juliann Logan was born 8 December 1821."
There is only one Logan on both sheets. It is also interesting that the hand writing for all the entries for George A., Sarah A. Myers and Juliann Logan are the same. Juliann must have been relative to either George or Sarah. We have been trying to determine Vinyard Lawson`s wife`s surname for a number of years. We now believe that her name was Logan based upon the fact that a woman named Juliann Logan, born during the expected time frame, was listed in Vinyard and Julia Ann`s daughter`s Family Bible.
Checking the 1850 Walker County Census we find a David and Catherine Logan in household 291 and Vinyard and Juliann in household 294 in Walker County. We believe David and Catherine are Julia Ann`s parents.
Other records show that Catherine is the daughter of Joseph and Winnie Rutledge.
On 14 July 1845 Martin O`Rear, Joseph Rutledge, William John Staggs, William H. Sides, Winyard (Vinyard) Losson (Lawson), Colman Sides, Edward (Edmon) Rutledge, Martha Staggs, Elizabeth Sides, Mary Sides, Catherine Logan, Serrepta Sides and Luvesta A. Smith met at a school house near Ruben Keetons` on Lost Creek in Walker County and became the charter members of the Pleasant Grove Church. In the first meeting of the church, Elizabeth Rutledge, William Keeton, Saphina Keeton, July (Julia) A. Losson (Lawson), Rebecca J. Staggs came forward and related their experience and became members'.
Edward (Edmon) Rutledge, a brother of Joseph`s, married Elizabeth Logan of Cumberland County, Kentucky according to Dombhart. Other information indicated the Rutledge and Logan`s families traveled together from Kentucky, through Tennessee and into Walker County in the earlier 1830`s.
The records indicate that the sons and daughter of the above families inter married. This church is located about 2 miles on present day roads from Vinyard`s land and the Lawson Cemetery. The church started and continues to be a family church that was close to where the school was located.
David and Catherine in the 1850 Walker County Census indicated that their birth place and the birth place all of their children, except William David, was Kentucky. This would agree with the information we see in the 1880 Census, when Julia Ann indicated that she and both of her parents were from Kentucky, and in the 1880 and 1900 Census when her children indicated that she was from Kentucky.
In the 1830 Cumberland County, Kentucky Census, David Logan is listed. In his family is 1 male 30-40 (David), 2 females 0-5 (Elizabeth, Nancy), 1 female 5-10 (Julia Ann), 1 female 20-30 (Catherine).
Vinyard, his wife and one child are enumerated in the 1840 Walker County Census. The age of his wife is given as 15-20 years, born 1821-1825.
Census Name Age Approx. Date Where Born
1850 Julann Losson 28, 1822 Alabama
1860 Jula A. Losson 41, 1819 Alabama
1870 Julia Lawson 50, 1820 Alabama
1880 Juley A. Lawson 58, 1822 Kentucky
In the 1880 Census Julia indicates she is born in Kentucky and so were her parents? In the same record, her son Albert has his parents listed as being born in South Carolina? In the same 1880 Census, Albert's brother, Goulder Fields gives Kentucky as the birth place for his mother Julia Ann. In the 1900 Census, taken in the Indian Territory, Albert and his sister, Sarah Ann Myers indicate that their mother was born in Kentucky. It is odd that the first three censuses that she is listed in have Alabama as her birth place. However, with the above information I believe she was born Kentucky and her children correctly stated this in later census.
Vinyard and Julia Ann had 7 children that I was able to find in the 1850 and 1860 Alabama Census. The youngest was Nancy J., age 8 years in the 1850 Census. However, in the 1866 Alabama State Census there is listed a Vinson Lawson living close to Albert G. Lawson, his oldest child. I believe this to be Vinyard and his family. This family has two young children, 1 male and 1 female, under the age of 10 years. Since Nancy would have been about 14 years, who were these two children?
The 1866 Census list the following;
Number of Males/Females Age in years Who they could be
1 Male 0-10 Thomas Vinyard
1 Male 10-20 Vinyard Jr.
1 Male 20-30 Goulder Field
1 Male 40-50 Vinyard Sr.
1 Female 0-10 Arvenzenia
1 Female 10-20 Nancy J.
1 Female 40-50 Julia Ann
The ages fit for all family members that I know of up to 1860.
I believe that the two younger children are Arvenzenia and Thomas Vinyard whom we find later living in Oklahoma. Their families in Oklahoma indicated that Arvenzenia and Thomas were brother and sister. There have always been questions as to who their parents were. Some believe it is Albert G. Lawson, but I can not fit them into Albert's family. After years of research and due to this 1866 Census, I believe they are the children of Vinyard Jr, but not the children of his second wife Celia Evans. This may answer the 10 year gap between Nancy and Arvenzenia?
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