Stephen Lawton

Title

Stephen Lawton

Aliases

Duncan Betterson

Date

18 June 1889-6 February 1929

Description

Regiment: 128th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: E
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 7 March 1865 at Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 11 October 1866 at Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: James Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Comrades mentioned: Nelson Brown; John Baley; Richard Roberts; Joseph Rivers

Name(s) of spouse(s): Tama Wilson Betterson
Children: Maggie Betterson Brown (born 1868); Martin Betterson (born 1870); Anna Betterson Wilson (born 1873); Stephen Betterson (born 1887); Sam Sammie Betterson (born 1889); Chloe Betterson Ling (born 1890);Henry Rabbit Betterson (born 1897)

Veteran's birth date and location: ~1847 at Bluffton, South Carolina, United States [Near Hardeeville, Beaufort, South Carolina, United States]
Plantation(s): Hampton Ridge Plantation
Enslaver(s): Joseph M. Lawton; James Guerard

Parents of veteran: January Betterson
Other listed family members: Not listed

Wife's place of birth: Not listed
Wife's enslaver: Not listed
Wife's parents: Not listed
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.