This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lawson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3217.1 Message Board Post: Well, this seems to support suspicions that Banks Lawson was closely related to Edmond/Edward Lawson, and to Thomas Lawson Sr and/or Clement Lawson Sr. Some Lawson researchers think that Pascal and Clem Lawson may be the two 1830 male children living with Edmond/Edward Lawson. Pascal and Clem moved to Ohio via Kentucky around 1840. Banks also had a son named Clem in 1850. It doesn't appear that Banks was missing any male children from 1830 or 1840. However, the securities in these cases seem to be fathers, fathers-in-law, brothers, brothers-in-law, uncles, etc--in general very close relatives. Deed records suggest that Anderson Lawson was the son Thomas Lawson Sr as Peter Lawson was. The fact that these Lawsons were indicted together does suggest a close relationship between Banks, Anderson, Peter, and Alum Lawson.