BIBB COUNTY, GA - Bios  Lewis Lawshe (1789-1879)

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Lewis Lawshe, born 17 August 1789 in Lewisburg, Union,
Pa/ died 31 August 1879 in San Marcos, Hays, Texas.
He was the son of John Lawshe and Eleanor Chamberlain.
He married Cherokee Hawkisn 10 August 1829.

Cherokee Hawkins, born 16 March 1805 in Ga/  died 26
February 1849 in Water Valley, Yalobusha, Ms.  She was
the daughter of Benjamin Hawkins and Lavinia Downs.

Notes for Lewis Madison Lawshe: Served in the War of
1812 and both Seminole Indian Wars under Gen. Andrew
Jackson.  When Grant occupied Water Valley and burned
his home, his new worth went from a quarter million
dollars to nothing over night.  He then set his slaves
free.  He was 75 years old but went to Virginia and
fought through the Second Battle of Manassas.

Lewis Lawshe moved from Georgia in 1839 and bought a
640 acre farm in Water Valley, yalobusha Cty,
Mississippi, owned in 1973 by R. B. Lawshe.  He later
moved to Texas and died there.  A Lawshe cemetery in
Water Valley is overgrown and attempts to locate it in
1998 failed.

Children of Lewis Lawshe and Cherokee Hawkins are:

1. Isaac H. Lawshe, born 10 Sept. 1820, died 10 Oct.
1829

2. William H. Lawshe, Sr., born 29 Oct. 1822 in Bibb,
County, Ga. / died 6 Sept. 1859 married Mary "Marky"
Markette.

3. John A. Lawshe, born 8 Dec. 1824/ died 8 Dec. 1824 

4. Lewis Madison Lawshe, Jr., born 27 Mar. 1826 in
nibb County, Ga./ died 3 Jan. 1888/ married (1) Mary
Jane Hears 21 Oct. 1845 in Water Valley, Yalobusha,
Ms./ married (2) Jane Bankhead 24 Aug. 1859 in
Yalobusha Co., Ms. Marrie (3) Mary Greenhaw after 1882

There is a great book written by a lady whose last
name is I believe  Wilde.  I have loaned it out so I
can't look it up but the name of the book is  "True
Women"  and it is about this Lewis Lawshe and him
family moving from Crawford County to  Texas.

Merlyn Whiting
 
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