William Lawrence

Title

William Lawrence

Aliases

None listed

Date

10 June 1890-9 February 1937

Description

Regiment: 34th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 17 March 1863 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 28 February 1866 at Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Not listed
Comrades mentioned: Frank Frazier; Sandy Heyward; Charles Washington

Name(s) of spouse(s): Evalina Heyward Lawrence; Charlotte Davis Lawrence; Grace McKnight Lawrence
Children: Elizabeth Lawrence (born 1 August 1869); William Lawrence (born 1 March 1871); McKnight Lawrence (born 13 February 1873); Benjamin Lawrence (born 23 December 1881); Edward Lawrence (born 15 September 1883); Jessie Lawrence (born 2 January 1885); Melvin Lawrence (born 12 February 1895); Julia Lawrence (born 3 August 1897); Nathan Lawrence (born 11 September 1912); Anna Lawrence (born 5 August 1914); Lizzie Lawrence (born 1 September 1917)

Veteran's birth date and location: ~1842 at Ashepoo, South Carolina, United States
Plantation(s): Not listed
Enslaver(s): John S. Porcher

Parents of veteran: London and Betsy Lawrence
Other listed family members: Not listed

Wife's place of birth: Not listed
Wife's enslaver: Not listed
Wife's parents: Emma Heyward
Wife's other family members: Not listed

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.