Our Lawson Family Heritage

(Estimated to be 29 years old) Anna Stone Lawson June 23, 1908 - Dec. 1998 The Woman Who Fears the Lord ( Proverbs 31: 30 - 31  ESV) 30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates. Today is Grandma Anna Lawson's Birthday!  She was born June 23, 1908 and went to be with the Lord, whom she served, in December of 1998. Anna Stone Lawson (approx. 6 mos. old) Scripture tells us that a woman who fears the LORD, will be praised by her descendants and today is a day for us to give the LORD our praise for the godly example Anna Stone Lawson displayed for us. Dear Father in Heaven,  We thank You for the Christian influence of our Grandmother Anna Lawson. She planted seeds of the Gospel of Jesus Christ deep within our souls as she read Bible stories and spoke of You to us while we sat on her lap and felt her lo...

The Battle of Culloden (Wikipedia) Excerpt from Lawson, William - A Scottish Rebel by Bill Porter and posted online at Electric Scotland : William Lawson was born 26 June 1731 at Montrose, Scotland. He was the only son of a widow lady (1). No information is available on his father. Some believe his name was Robert and may have been killed during the Scottish uprising which culminated in the fatal route and dispersion of the followers of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, "the Pretender" to the throne of Great Britain at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746.  At this battle the British army, under the command of the Duke of Cumberland, killed 1000 of the 5000 Scottish troops in less than an hour and pursued the fleeing rebels, persecuting and prosecuting them and members of their families (2). William Lawson was one of many young Scotsmen arrested and placed in prisons in northern England.  Confined at Chester and Carlisle, the Scottish rebels became a threat to...

John McNeal Simmons (1861 to 1951)  and Margaret Matilda Handlin Simmons (1867-1947).

Parents: John McNeal Simmons (1861 to 1951) and Margaret Matilda Handlin (1867-1947) Bertha Ann Simmons Stone 3/27/1884 to May 1972  William Edward Stone 9/29/1867 to 1951  Their children: 1. Harvey DOB 3/29/1903  2. Charles Jerry (8/17/1904 to October 1979)  3. Ethel Matilda Hannah (9/28/1906 to June 1974)  4. Ester Anna Lawson ( June 23, 1908 - Dec. 1998)   5. Charles Henry (2/3/1910 to 12/1982)  6. Rueben Carl "Doc" DOB 6/16/1913  7. Leonard Edward. DOB 6/7/1915  8. John Thomas DOB 8/26/1917  9. Jenny Catherine Hensgen DOB 6/3/1919  10. Mary Elizabeth Pannell Renno (7/26/1921 - 9/14/2005)  11. Margaret Ardelia Gardner (2/15/1923 - 8/17/2013)  12. (With 2nd husband William Lawson) Rosa Elizabeth Simmons Shirley DOB 3/27/1927 William Lawson, Sam Simmons and Bertha Stone Lawson *Information compiled by Diane Renno Jarvis and Angela Somers Wittman. Photo provided by Bertha...