The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-08-30
Judge Lawson.

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in Union City Tuesday afternoon, Aug.
81, 1912, at 2:15 o'clock, after short
illness beginning Sunday, developing
into angina pectoris.
On Monday evening it was known
that the end was near at hand. At the
bedside were Judge Lawson's daughter,
Miss Mary, his sister, Mrs. Cato Davis,
his physicians, Drs. Pierce and Blanton,
Rev. w. G. Sellars, of Humboldt, and
numbers of relatives and friends. Judge
Lawson was present with his class at
Sunday school the day before, though
he had not been feeling we'll, and on
Sunday afternoon became seriously i'll.
Andrew Jackson Lawson's birth &C.
Cured in Smith County, Tenn, Sep
TENDER, y, 1886. He was the son of
Horace and Tabitha (Alexander) Law
son, of English Irish descent. His
father was born in the Bluegrass State
in 1900 and his mother in Sumner
County, Tenn, in 1910. The Lawson
family came from Maryland to Ken
lucky, thence to Smith County, Tenn,
thence to Obion County in 1850, and
here Horace Lawson died in 1888. An
drew ]. was one of twelve children and
was reared on farm. He attended the
common schools and afterwards entered
Bethel College in Carroll County. In
1860 he began reading law in the office
of Roulhac & LauderdaIe and later at
tended the Lebanon Law School. In
1851 he enlisted in Company E, First
Kentucky Regiment, and served as sec
ond sergeant until the reorganization of
the army under the conscript act, in the
spring of 1862, when he was elected
captain of this company, and after it
was disbanded at Richmond, Va, in
July, 1862, he came west and joined
Henderson's scouts, a division of For
rests Cavalry, with which command he
served until paroled May IA, 1865. In
partnership with Capt. D. D. Bell,
Judge Lawson then began the practice
of law in Union City, but in 1859 re-
tired to the farm west of Union City,
where he remained in agricultural pur-
suits for a number of years. In the
fall of 1884 he removed to Union City
and was engaged for a short time IN
merchandising. Judge Lawson was
candidate for the Legislature as an
advocate of strong State credit meas
ures. He was a Sky blue, as some
of the best men in the State were known.
In 1902 the County Court of Obion
County was reorgauized and Judge Law
son was a candidate for County Judge
under special act of the Legislature.
In the Democratic primary he was nom
mated by an overwhelming plurality,
so great was his personality and popu-
larity, as well as firm faith i'll the
honest conviction of right in principle
and practice. In1910 he was reelected
with another landslide over the opposi-
ton of good men and loyal Democrats.
On March 16, 1865, Judge Lawson
was united in marriage to Miss Mary
r. Dunn, of Mississippi, four years his
iunior. a romance of the Confederacy
and the star of hope appearing out OF
the receding war clouds upon morn
ing Of LIES wonderful glories and posi-
bilities. Two daughters were born,
Miss Mary R. and Miss Rebecca ", the
latter becoming Mrs. Crockett. The
first overshadowing misfortune came
with the death of his wife from cholera
in 1873. In 1876 hewas married to Mrs.
Mary A. Bate, of Giles County, whose
death occurred few years ago. Judge
Lawson is survived by the last of Q
large family, Mrs. Cato Davis, who wa;
with her brother during his expiring
hours. remnant OF a golden age anc
flower OF civilization. a
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