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My Ancestor:
Jesse B. Ezell PVT. Company F. Milton Florida Film Number M225-Roll 3. for March to April 1863
Confederate Inlist Card Numbers 4514 7474 7549 7627 7694 7754
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My Other Ancestor: Silas Lawrence was married about a mile from the spot where he died,in the year of 1846. Building and sailing vessels was his chief occupation. He was a deeply religious man and united first withthe Baptist Church, and later with the Larger Hope Association having the headquarters in Michigan. Silas, died Feb.16,1908,his children was Silas Lawrence Jr. who died July 27,1862, and George A. R. Lawrence who died July 1907, also Joseph W. Lawrence died Jan. 22,1922, Lovie Lawrence died Sept.10,1877, Almira Abigail Lawrence born Aug. 25,1861, Elzadah Lawrence born April 27,1847, Eugenie Lawrence born 1849, married March 23, 1866 to John W. Kohler.
One of Silas Lawrence's Son George A. R. Lawrence later married Marthia Rosa Overton, daughter of David Overton and Evelyn Gibson who was living in Palestine Texas at the time she was born. George A. R., and Rosa, had sons George A. R. Lawrence Jr. and also John W. Stewart Lawrence.
Silas V. Lawrence was born in bucksport Maine, his father William W. West also born in Bucksport Maine on February 17, 1802, and died February 17, 1856, in California. When Silas left home he was evidently mad at his father and had taken his mother's maiden name of Lawrence. Silas Lawrence's mother was Betsy Lawrence, born in Orland Maine on October 19,1800, Betsy's father who was John Gordon Lawrence,born in Orland Maine on May 30, 1775, and died Aug.3, 1852, in Dedham Maine, at the age of seventy-seven. Betsy's mother was Elisabeth Sanders, of Penobscot Plantation, died later in Bucksport, Maine on June 23,1846, at the age of seventy-seven. Silas Lawrence had brothers and sister there names or as followed: John H., born Dec.16,1825, William H., born Sept.22,1827, Samuel C., born November 20,1829, Deborah A., born July 20,1831, Mary E., born May 20,1833, Catherine C., born Feb.17,1835, Sylvester S., born Dec.31,1839,he was lost at sea March 3,1854, Rhoda E., born July 20,1843,Jonah D., born May 18,1845,;he was a sailor, Olive E., born October 14,1846. These were born in Orland Maine, the residence of the family Mr. William W. West died in California. Silas Lawrence's wife Nancy Litchfield was born in Greenbrough or Greensboro Alabama, she died December 12,1890, Mosspoint, Mississippi at the home of George A. R. Lawrence, who was her son.
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