Brooks-Lowndes County GaArchives Biographies.....Lawson, Irvin 1854 - unknown
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Author: William Harden
p. 865-866

   IRVIN LAWSON. As an active, enterprising, and industrious farmer, Irvin
Lawson materially assists in maintaining the reputation of Brooks county as a
superior agricultural region, having a well-appointed and productive farm in the
Morven district. A member of the well-known and much respected Lawson family,
and a descendant of the first settler of Southwest Georgia, he was born August
6, 1854, in Lowndes county, a son of Ashley and Cynthia (Folsom) Lawson, of whom
a sketch may be found on another page of this work, and a grandson of John
Lawson, the pioneer.

   Acquiring his education in the public schools, Irvin Lawson was trained to
habits of industry and thrift on the home farm, and remained with his parents as
long as they lived, caring tenderly for them in their later years. His father
gave him one-half of the old homestead property, and he, having purchased the
remaining half from the other heirs, lived there until 1888. Selling out in that
year, Mr. Lawson bought his present farm in lot number 225, Morven district, and
has now three hundred acres of good land, on which he has improvements of a
substantial character, including a comfortable set of farm buildings.

   Mr. Lawson married, at the age of thirty-seven years, Lillie Scruggs, who was
born in Brooks county, Georgia, a daughter of Richard and Margaret (Home)
Scruggs, both natives of Georgia, her father having been born in the vicinity of
Savannah, and her mother in Burke county. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson have four
children, namely: Richard Ashley, Roy, Ernest, and Maggie.

   An intelligent reader, taking a genuine interest in everything pertaining to
his native state, Mr. Lawson is very familiar with the early history of Georgia,
having acquired a large part of his historical knowledge first hand from his
parents and grandparents, and through the reading of current literature keeps
himself well informed on ,all the leading questions of the day.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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