In reviewing the US Census records for Lee County, VA at Rocky Station I found the following information. 1920 -- Thomas & Martha Lawson were enumerated with a baby girl, Ethel Lawson , age 3 yrs & 5 months. 1930 -- Thomas Lawson, now age 83 and a widower, was enumerated in the household of his son, Emmett Lawson as head of household. Ethel P. Lawson was listed as Emmett's half-sister and was age 13. Martha had died some time between 1920 and 1930. Thomas then died 25 March 1931 at Rocky Station and was buried in the Lawson Cemetery located near the Mountain View Baptist Church on the Lovelady Ridge above present-day Stickleyville. My grandmother was named Ethel Pearl Ward. Martha Chafin Lawson was sister of her mother, Eliza Barbara "Lyde" Chafin Ward. Martha & Eliza "Lyde" were probably close and Martha may have felt very close to my grandmother as Eliza died in 1903 leaving behind six young children. My grandmother Ethel Pearl Ward was born in 1896 at Rocky Station, not far from the Mountain View Church. James & Jerusha Chafin owned the property next to the Mountain View Church, later owned by their son Henry Chafin, who gave the cemetery to my grandmother Ethel Pearl Ward Castle, who gave the cemetery to the Mountain View Church. I hope this helps sort this out. Brenda Reed