Cherokee County AlArchives Biographies.....Lawrence, George D. W. January 10 1828 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. GEORGE D. W. LAWRENCE, son of James and Chelnessa Doherty Lawrence and
brother of Hon. John Lawrence, was born in Jefferson county, Tenn., January 10,
1828, and in 1839 was brought to Alabama by his parents. After a proper course
of educational training he taught school a few years, and then, in 1851, began
the study of medicine under his uncle, Dr. George W. Lawrence, an eminent
physician of Gaylesville, Ala. In 1853-4 he attended his first course of
lectures on medicine at Augusta, Ga., attended his second course in 1855-6, and
graduated in the class of the last named year. He located for practice in
Gaylesville, but in 1859 removed to Cedar Bluff, where he still resides and
where he has gained a most enviable reputation as a surgeon and physician.
Anterior to the Civil war he had been surgeon-general of the state militia, but
during the progress of the war ill health prevented his entering the field, and
his services were confined to the performance of the duty of post physician. He
has been a member of the county Medical society for a number of years and is now
filling the position of county health officer. The doctor was married at Cedar
Bluff, October 10, 1856, to Miss Sarah F. Hampton, seven children being the
result, and named as follows: James, deceased; William J., a physician of
Turkeytown neighborhood, Etowah county, Ala.; Fannie, wife William A. Barker of
Cedar Bluff; Glenn, deceased; Waldo, of Cedar Bluff; Sextella, deceased; and
Jere, deceased. The parents are members of the Missionary Baptist church and are
always preparad to aid in its works of charity and evangelism.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 639-640

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