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/3344.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: We will never know for sure unless we can find a document. My gut feeling is that it was because of the name of Banks' son was Clem, and the high likelihood that the other 1850 Clem was the son of Hennis Lawson--not because there was a document that stated it. And of course, we have the Clem and Pascal who moved to Ohio before 1850. The Lawsons who are linked to Clement--Clem, Banks, Hennis, Pascal, Edmund, Mason, etc.--all have one thing in common--unusual names for the Lawsons. My own feeling is that some of these Lawson may be more likely to be grandchildren of Clement and not his children. I suspect that Clement and Pascal may be Edmund's two male children children and that Edmund may be a brother of Banks, Hennis and possibly Mason. Banks and Hennis Lawson were in Indiana in 1830--not far from Henry County. We also know that Hennis' son William went to Indiana at the beginning of the Civil War for about a year.