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Walter Lawrence was a son of Rev. John S. & Annie Covington Lawrence (see their photos) and a brother of my great-grandpa. Walter was a professor of English at Elon College (in Elon College,,NC) many years. He received an MA from Yale University and also studied at Oxford in England. He was a prominent layman in the Southern Christian Convention and had been President of the NC and Virginia Christian Conference and treasurer of the Mission Board of the NC Conference. He was married to Mary Annie Graham and had two children, Mary Graham (Lawrence) Mackintosh, and Walter "Phalti" Lawrence, Jr.
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