Post by Angela on Apr 19, 2009 13:59:00 GMT -5
Q: I’ve heard that the Lawsons are from Lawsonville, but the murders took place in Germanton. Is this right?
A: They lived in Lawsonville because that's where their parents lived and that's where they were born, grew up, married, and had children. Charlie and Fannie did not leave Lawsonville and move to Germanton until they were married and four of their children...Marie, Arthur, William, and Carrie had been born. They moved to Germanton in 1918 and lived there until their deaths in 1929. They lived in Lawsonville for 32 years of their lives but lived in Germanton for only eleven years. I'll go ahead and answer a question that will likely be asked next which is why the family left Lawsonville where they had been born and raised and move to Germanton. They moved to Germanton because they heard that land was cheaper there and the earth more amendable for growing corn and tobacco which became Charlie Lawson's two biggest cash crops. Also, some of Charlie's brothers had already moved to Germanton. A year after leaving Lawsonville in 1918 and moving to Germanton, Charlie's father William Augustus Lawson, died in Lawsonville and was buried there in Snow Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. Gus's wife Nancy (Charlie's mother) left Lawsonville 2 years after the death of her husband and moved to Germanton to be with her children. For awhile she lived with her son Marion Lawson, Charlie's brother. Nancy died in 1945 and is buried in Browder Cemetery. Also buried in Browder Cemetery is Marion Lawson and wife and George Lawson and wife Nina . George Lawson is another one of Charlie Lawson's brothers. Elijah Lawson, another brother of Charlie's, is buried in Snow Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Lawsonville along with their father Gus Lawson.
A: They lived in Lawsonville because that's where their parents lived and that's where they were born, grew up, married, and had children. Charlie and Fannie did not leave Lawsonville and move to Germanton until they were married and four of their children...Marie, Arthur, William, and Carrie had been born. They moved to Germanton in 1918 and lived there until their deaths in 1929. They lived in Lawsonville for 32 years of their lives but lived in Germanton for only eleven years. I'll go ahead and answer a question that will likely be asked next which is why the family left Lawsonville where they had been born and raised and move to Germanton. They moved to Germanton because they heard that land was cheaper there and the earth more amendable for growing corn and tobacco which became Charlie Lawson's two biggest cash crops. Also, some of Charlie's brothers had already moved to Germanton. A year after leaving Lawsonville in 1918 and moving to Germanton, Charlie's father William Augustus Lawson, died in Lawsonville and was buried there in Snow Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. Gus's wife Nancy (Charlie's mother) left Lawsonville 2 years after the death of her husband and moved to Germanton to be with her children. For awhile she lived with her son Marion Lawson, Charlie's brother. Nancy died in 1945 and is buried in Browder Cemetery. Also buried in Browder Cemetery is Marion Lawson and wife and George Lawson and wife Nina . George Lawson is another one of Charlie Lawson's brothers. Elijah Lawson, another brother of Charlie's, is buried in Snow Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Lawsonville along with their father Gus Lawson.
