John William Stewart Lawrence Aug. 12, 1939 Mobile, Alabama Fairhope JOHN W. STEWART LAWRENCE, who married Jessie M. Dickens Strwart, as he was call done work of all trades, as I was told one was during construction of the old Cochrane Bridge were he lost a toe, maybe thats why he dranked alot later, later on June 4, 1927, the Cochrane Bridge, a toll bridge across Mobile River was opened to the public. Through the influence of the State Docks Commission and the U. S. Engineers, this bridge crossed Mobile River north of the State Docks site so as to cause no hindrance or delay to the movement of ships in the harbor. ( This bridge became free ten years later ). John William Stewart Lawrence was his full name, he was married to Jessie Dickens the daughter of John Hampton Dickens and Carrie May Cameron. genealogy1@webtv.net http://community.webtv.net/genealogy1/

William Eugene ( Cooter, or Bill ) Ezell June 3, 2001 Theodora, Alabama Theodora, Alabama Mr. William Eugene Ezell, nickname Bill, or Cooter, was a native of Pensacole Florida, born on Desota and a resident of Mobile County Alabama, for the past 70 years. Mr. Ezell was a veteran of the US Army, serving in WWII. and Korea. He was a member of VFW post 250. He was employed in the past as a Engineer for Crescent Towing. Cause of death was Hypertension and Coronary Atherosclerosis. Place of death at his house at 3240 Clearview Drive, Theodore, Alabama 36582, found in front room laying on floor. On Certificate of death state file number 101. The coffin he was buried in was gray, the americia flag layed on the coffin and lots of flowers standing on each side.of his coffin. It was nice to see his brother Preston their and also Mary, Mary was the daughter of Doris and Horald Lawrence. The flag was handed to Donna, she later handed to Robert Ezell, and all of his war metals are in the hand of Jimmy Ezell. genealogy1@webtv.net http://community.webtv.net/genealogy1/

John Thomas Robinson 9-17-1939 Ripley Tippah Co.,MS. Nance Grave Yard John Thomas,Was my Grandfather,He was B-9/13/1852 in SC- married 2Times Wife #1 Martha Wiseman Braddock #2 Bell Maxey- Clararuth@ev1.net

wayne t. dimm 1953 Staten Island, New York

William R Sims 1926 Vigo Co., Indiana Don't know I know when William died but I don't know where he was buried. His wife, Martha Jane also died in Vigo County in 1923. I will appreciate any information you can find on them Thank you, Maxine Chalfant Maxine_Chalfant@msn.com

JOSEPH MAIER 1995 DARBY PA. DARBY PA.

cora m slebodnick/burkett june 23 1975 portage township mt moriah cemetary born on july 17 1914. services were held at rudolph seckinger funeral home. on thursday june 26 1975. jdkcmk@aol.com

David W. Hanscom 12/31/2000 Largo Florida

august parm rogers 1938 sikeston, missouri sikeston city cemetery stoogmomma1954@yahoo.com

naomi wilkins rogers 1951 sikeston , missouri sikeston city cemetery wife of august parm rogers  stoogmomma1954@yahoo.com  
    

George Andrew Randell Lawrence July 11 , 1907 Mobile, Alabama Fairhope, Alabama BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE ANDREW RANDELL LAWRENCE" This information taken from the FairHope Courier date given - 19 July 1907. Informatiom on William W. West, and Betsy Lawrence was taken from a book title John Lawrence, given to me from a lady name Betty Lawrence, address 6791 Old Waterloo Rd. #716, Elkridge MD zip 21227. George Andrew Randell Lawrence Captain George A. R. Lawrence (full name as above) was born in Mobile on April first,1859. His father, Captain Silas Lawrence was living at Fairhope at the ripe old age of eighty five, one month and four days when he died, George's mother was a native southern woman. George's,father Silas Lawrence from Bucksport Maine was the son of William W. West, also born in Bucksport Maine on Feb. 17, 1802, and Silas's, mother was Betsy Lawrence, from Orland Maine born Oct.19, 1800, she was the daughter of John Gordon Lawrence, of Orland Maine, and Elisabeth Sanders, of Penobscot Plantation. It's uncertain why Silas Lawrence changed his last name from West, to his mothers maiden name Lawrence. George's father being a seamen, he early became familiar with sailing vessels, and George at the age of fifteen was in charge of a schooner carrying cor-wood to Galveston. Most of his work thereafter was upon the water,and he commanded at different times many vessels, sail and steam,including the steamers, "Fairhope" and "Vivian" and the schooners "Minnie L," "Minneola," "Stella" and "Empress," since he came to Fairhope. He was married in 1880,on the San Bernard River, in Texas, to Martha Rosa Overton, who with their eight living children, (one having died in infancy) survive him all being about his bedside when the end came. He came to Fairhope in April 1897.Within about 18 months after the founding of the Colony, sailing around from Pearl River,Miss., with his family and household goods on the little five ton schooner "Minnie L," Houses being few in Fairhope then, and they all filled, the family were debarked on the beach where they tented for a part of the summer and the Captain went at once to work with his schooner, freighting merchandise to and from Fairhope and other Eastern shore points, and Mobile. A few months later a home was purchased, that in which Capt. Joseph Lawrence now lives. The residence of the family at Fairhope has been continuous since their arrival with the exception of about one year spent at Gulfport. Capt. Lawrence was of an exceedingly nervous, active, ambitious temperament living refutation of the charge which some are fond of bringing that our southern climate takes away energy. All hours and all weathers were pretty much alike to him when there was work to be done and work and exposure were undoubtedly responsible for the dread disease which carried him off after months of great suffering, when he should have only been in his prime. The family traced his trouble to extreme effort and exposure,in releasing his schooner from the ice, and saving her from wreck, in our "great freeze" of Feb. 1899. Capt. Lawrence took to the Single Tax as soon as it was presented to him, and was a most zealous disciple. He never let an opportunity pass to bear testimony to the true gospel of economics. Naturally handicap which our unjust land system puts upon the many, heightened his sympathy for the "under dogs" in the struggle for existence and many were the poor fellows he brought over to Fairhope several trips this way from Mobile seeking to help them to opportunities for greater independence. He was an ardent friend of the Colony and the COURIER, and in the "early days" used to solicit ads for the paper in Mobile, and he had secured a number of subscribers for the paper within the last year. His death as reported in the last COURIER, occurred on Thursday night, July 11, 1907. The funeral services were conducted at the residence on Friday evening following, the address being made by his warm friend and comrade of years, Rev. G. W. Woods. Rev. H. G. Sedinger assisted and music was rendered by a quartet, Rev. Sedinger, Mrs. C. L. Mershop, Mrs. Sedinger and Mr. Gaston. --------------------------------------------------------------------- William F. Lawrence is a 3rd Cousin to Curtis Eugene Ezell. According to William F. Lawrence account as was told by his family, George A. R. Lawrence was suffering from tuberculosis. --------------------------------------------------------------------- COURIER PAPER, in Fairhope COURIER FEB.1,1897 Remember that the staunch Schooner "Minnie L. of Fairhope," Capt. G. A. R. Lawrence makes regular trips twice a week (oftener if necessary) between Fairhope and Mobile, handling all kinds of freight either way with security and dispatch. Will touch at all points along the eastern shore where business demands. The Minnie L, has extra facilities for protecting-freight from the weather and makes a specialty of handling merchandise and house hold goods. Special rates to persons moving to Fairhope. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FairHope Paper Called The COURIER FEB.1,1899 Born--to Capt. and Mrs. G. A. R. Lawrence, a daughter, Sunday January 15th. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COURIER APRIL 15,1899 Captain George Lawrence recovered so slowly from his illness, noted in last issue, that he went over to Mobile and entered the Marine Hospital, remaining there for about a week. He is now home again under a pledge to the hospital physician not to work any, and we hope will soon be fully recovered. Captain Silas Lawrence heard of his son's illness, where he was visiting in Florida, and was so filled with anxiety that he hastened home. He himself seems much stronger than when he left. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COURIER APRIL 15,1899 Captain Lawrence, who is always anxious to help others to a share of the advantages which he feels he has received from Fairhope, has installed a fellow hospital inmate, Mr. George Lewis, with a barbers outfit, in the little cabin on the beach, lately occupied by father Lawrence. Mr. Lewis will also captain the Minnie L., when business calls her into commission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEPT.1,1899 Captain George A. R. Lawrence is an authorized agent of the Courier. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAY 1, 1900 Captain George Lawrence has gone with his brother on the return trip of the new schooner STELLA to lower Florida. They left Fairhope on Sunday,the fifteenth, expecting to be gone from two to four weeks. Captain Joseph Lawrence expects to bring his family with him on the next trip, to spend the summer, at least, at Fairhope and it is likely that they will make their homes here. His sons remained over and have charge of the EMPRESS and her Mobile Eastern shore business. Captain George loaded up with COURIERS, and will as usual be an active Single Tax and Fairhope Missionary, on the trip. He has been in poor health for some time and hopes to be benefited by the trip, in which we trust he will not be disappointed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE 1, 1900 The Schooner Stella, arrived on her second trip from Florida in due time and brought a large addition to the population of Fairhope as promised in Captain Lawrence's letter to the Courier. The new comers include Captain Joseph Lawrence, wife and three children, his son-inlaw, Mess Chas. H. Keen and Geo. Cain and their wives and the infant child of the former, eleven in all. They are comforiable domiciled for the present, in the Ettel properity adjoining Fairhope. Mr. Chas. Briggs who has been acting as steward of the Stella- a Massachusetts man, in the south for his health, is also trying Fairhope climate for a time, and likes it much better, than South Florida. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 15, 1900 Our last letter from Captain George Lawrence was dated the ninth, at Punta Gorda, Florida, and from it we quote: Friend: As I have a little time off duty my mind reverts back to Fairhope and my loved ones which means all good Fairhope people, and I realize more and more why you and the other noble, brave men named it Fairhope. If we have't a fair hope for a dwelling place then there is no hope on earth. Oh the hope that brightens each day from the plan of our ideal city and how my heart yearns to talk about it to every fellow creature I meet; for like the true Religion of Jesus, what is so good for me I yearn to impart to others of God's people and indeed Dear Brother, I have talked to men on this trip till I was not able to talk any more, of the beauties of the single tax theory as exemplified and practiced at Fairhope. Its advantages can only be fully realized and appreciated by those who have taken hold of it with their whole souls and does for another the more he reaps himself, both temporally and spiritually. I am so glad to say that I am steering to our shores three families who see as we do the importance of uniting our efforts against the common enemy greed and Godlessness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ JULY 1,1900 Captain George Lawrence had a stormy trip round to Moss Point. Running into a gale before he had gotten out of the bay, the Empress sprung a leak and he had to lay to under Dauphin Island over night and keep the pump going a good share of the time. The next day he got down to Scranton (which is a city in NE Pennsy- lvania), and had to haul out and repair, which detained him three days. He had squalls again, returning and rearing to run over to this shore before a southwest gale, kept over to the other side of the Bay, intending to run up to Mobile but when about opposite Fairhope, the weather improved so that he ran in home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APRIL 15,1900 Captain Lawrence is enjoying a vist from his father Silas Lawrence- well known to Fairhopers--and his brother, Captain Joseph Lawrence and sons George Lawrence and Eugene Lawrence, who are making their first trip to Fairhope. The party came on the fine new schooner STELLA, of about eighty tons, which Captain Joseph and his sons built themselves, at their home at Charlotte Harbor, Florida, between Tampa and Key West, and whose maiden trip it was. Captain Silas Lawrence joined the party at Pensacola, where he has a daughter and where he has been staying for several months. Captain George Lawrence may make a trip to Charlotte Harbor with his brother, who is under charter for a year to a large fertilizer company there,to run freight between that point and Mobile. He expects to bring his family with him when he comes again to spend the summer here and may conclude to make his home here, as he is in full sympathy with us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAIRHOPE COURIER NOV. 15, 1902 Capt. George Lawrence's many Fairhope friends will regret to hear that he had two middle fingers of one hand crushed entirely off, handling a heavy piece of machinery. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOV.15,1902 Captain G.A.R. Lawrence has sold his improvements on Bay View Avenue and transferred his lease of the lot upon which they stood,to Mrs. E. L. Seal, of Biloxi, Miss., having traded the same upon the schooner Stella. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JANUARY 15,1902 Captain George Lawrence secured a good man to handle the schooner Stella, freighting oysters for a Biloxi canning factory, and is home with his family for a season. The Captain has a two story front to his cottage nearly ready for occupancy. It is 15 by 30 feet, divided into five rooms and a hall and will have a two story gallery or verandah. Captain Joseph Lawrence has charge of the work. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAIRHOPE COURIER DEC. 15, 1903 Capt. Geo. Lawrence has had the Wilson stand near the Magnolia, placed just to the east of the wharf warehouse, and is supplying oysters in various styles, to residents and the traveling public. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAIRHOPE COURIER DEC. 01, 1903 Capt. Geo. Lawrence has secured permission from the Council to conduct an oyster stand adjoining the wharf and expects to supply the local demand for fresh oysters, as well as serve the in various ways from his stand. This will be a great convenience to the public and we believe there will be a good business in it for the Captain. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAIRHOPE COURIER JAN. 15, 1904 Arrived, Friday January 8th, schooner Ariel, from Van Cleave, Miss., with Captain George Lawrence, family and household effects aboard. Thus returns to us this family after an absence of about a year and a half. It is hard for anyone who has lived in Baldwin county to be contented elsewhere, and still harder when they have lived in Fairhope. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COURIER JULY 1907 Captain George A. R. Lawrence has succumbed to the dread disease, Locomotor Ataxia. from which he has been long sufferer. He passed away a little before midnight last night, July 11,1907, and will be buried this evening. A fuller notice will appear in our next issue. genealogy1@webtv.net http://community.webtv.net/genealogy1/