LAWLESS, Thomas C., Terrebonne then St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
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THOMAS C. LAWLESS, FRANKLIN.--Thomas C. Lawless was born in Thibodeaux,
Terrebonne parish, Louisiana, February 8, 1855.  His father, Solomon C.
Lawless, was a native of Kentucky, born about 1815.  He removed to Big Cane,
St. Landry parish, Louisiana, in 1856, where he became a successful planter.
The mother of Thomas C. Lawless, Harriet Cheny Lawless, is a native of St.
Landry parish, born in 1834, and now a resident of Mobile, Alabama.  She
married a second time in Big Cane, Mr. A. B. Haskins.

Thomas C. Lawless was reared in St. Landry and St. Mary parishes, Louisiana,
and received a limited education in the common schools of the vicinities in
which he resided.  At the age of fourteen he became an apprentice to the
blacksmith trade, working at this a short while, when he learned the carpenter
trade, and in this was e
mployed for a period aggregating ten years.  In 1882
Mr. Lawless engaged as a sawyer for Wm. A. Hansen and served as such for a
term of seven years.  In 1889 he engaged in the lumber business as a partner
with Capt. Wm. Kyle.  Their success demonstrates the business tact and energy
characteristic of the firm.  Mr. Lawless was married, November 13, 1883, to
Miss Margaret A. Hanson, a daughter of Albert and Anna Hansen, both natives of
Europe, who removed to Louisiana early in life.  As a result of this union two
children have been born:  Alberta and  Willie.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 372.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.