Oops - Make that Charity HARE, not Charity AHRE -----Original Message----- From: Jim and Terri Tait <jtait@HiWAAY.net> To: ALBARBOU-L@rootsweb.com <ALBARBOU-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, August 11, 2000 7:21 PM Subject: [ALBARBOU] LEE, Lawrence Haywood >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.) > > > >==== ALBARBOU Mailing List ==== >Check the Macon County Ga. web site for their newspaper listings. There are many listings for Alabama citizens including those in Barbour Co., >