Source: "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907 p. 45 Judicial Department LAWRENCE HAYWOOD LEE, of Gadsden, was born August 2, 1867, at Clayton, Barbour county, and is the son of Alto V. and Lillian (Lawrence) Lee, and the grandson of Lovard and Susan B. (Lovelace) Lee, and of William Haywood and Lucy (Anthony) Lawrence of Tuscaloosa and the great-grandson of Needham and Lyida (Phyor) Lee, a native of Georgia who early moved to Southeast Alabama, and of Josiah Lawrence (whose wife was a daughter of Colonel Wm. Haywood and wife, Charity Ahre, the former a Revolutionary soldier in North Carolina), and of Henry Tate Anthony, who built the first frame house in Tuscaloosa. Needham Lee was a veteran of the Indian Wars of 1836; and his grandson, Alto V. Lee, now judge of the city court of Gadsden, is a veteran of the War of Secession. Lawrence H. Lee was educated in the common schools at Clyton; and graduated at the University of Alabama as a bachelor of arts in 1887. In 1888 he took his LL. B. degree from the law department, University of Alabama; entered upon the practice of the law at Clayton in July 1889, where he lived until Sept 1, 1901, when he removed to Gadsden, where he continued the practice until Dec 1, 1905. He was alderman of the town of Clayton, 1896-97; solicitor of Barbour county, 1890-2; member House of Representatives from the same county, 1898-99; and city attorney of Gadsden 1902-04. In Dec 1905, he was appointed supreme court reported to succeed Phares Coleman. Under his direction Volumes 144 and 145 of the Reports of the Supreme Court have been issued. He is a Democrat, and has served as chairman of the executive committee of Etowah county. He is a Methodist; a master Mason, and a member of the chapter, council and commandery, and is at present junior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Alabama. On October 29, 1889, at Clyaton, he was married to Augusta, daughter of Judge Augustus H. and Anna (Ott) Allston. (see infr for sketch of Judge Alston.)