This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lawson, Combs, Hargrave, Grudier Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.pettis/429.690.773/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Your message is several years old so I hope you see this. Have you ever been able to determine the parents of Joseph Lawson? Also a death date? I have 1909 but no exact date. My self and several other Lawson researchers have been working on a Henry Lawson family that left NE KY in the 1850's, is found in Cass CO, MO in 1860 and then they all just disappear. We are convinced that they moved during the Civil War since Cass Co was greatly affected by the war. We suspect they may have went into Kansas territory or Indian Territory and therefore are not found on an 1870 census. This family had a son Joseph who was born about 1853. I know that this Joseph's birth year is not an exact match but I also have seen census records and birth records for his children and his given age is very inconsistent from one document to another. The family I am researching also had children named Rosanna & Samuel. A woman named Rosanna Grudier is in St. Clair Co, Mo in 1880. I know that this woman's maiden name was Lawson but don't know for sure if she is the right Rosanna Lawson. But I strongly suspect that she is. Joseph's marriage to Margaret Combs occurred 1882 in St. Clair CO. A Samuel Lawson married Susan Hargrave 1880 in St. Clair CO. I also note that several of Joseph & Margaret's children had names that match the siblings of the Joseph I am loooking for. I have seen it noted somewhere online that his middle name was Reece and that he was born in Louisville, KY. The family in question was not from the Louisville area. They were from Morgan & Montgomery Co. But when the Henry Lawson family moved, if they came by way of the rivers he could have been born in Louisville as the family traveled. Our Joseph was the last child of Henry to be born in KY. The next child was born 1856 in MO.