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Solomon H. Lawrence (M)
b. 29 December 1836, d. 1933

Solomon H. Lawrence, Spring 1928
Solomon H. Lawrence, Spring 1928
     Solomon H. Lawrence was born on 29 December 1836 at Horton, Nova Scotia.1,2,3,4 He was the son of Joseph Lawrence and Sarah E. Loveless. Solomon H. Lawrence married Mary Sophia Graham, daughter of Isaac N. Graham and Sarah Ann Bezanson, on 18 February 1868 at Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia. He was 31. She was 22.5,6 Solomon H. Lawrence lived at the time of his marriage at Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.5 He and Mary Sophia Graham appeared on the census of 1881 at Lower Horton, Kings County, Nova Scotia, with Maud Hattie Lawrence and Sarah Ann Bezanson.7 Solomon H. Lawrence and Mary Sophia Graham appeared on the census of 1891 at Avonport, Nova Scotia, with Sarah E. Loveless and Maud Hattie Lawrence.8 Solomon H. Lawrence and Mary Sophia Graham appeared on the census of 1901 at Lockhartville, Nova Scotia.4 Solomon H. Lawrence appeared on the census of 1930 in the household of Harry Wood and Maud Hattie Lawrence at Lexington Street, Burlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.9 Solomon H. Lawrence died in 1933 at Somerville, Massachusetts.10
     From Murial Alta (Cardinal) Johnston: "My Gr Grandfather Solomon was 6' 4". I remember him sitting by black stove in kitchen of Maud's flat in Somerville, Mass., carving wooden chains."3

     Children of Solomon H. Lawrence and Mary Sophia Graham:
Maud Hattie Lawrence+   b. 15 Nov 1870, d. Mar 1963
Minnie Lawrence   (excluded)

  1. [S143] Marriage Records of Kings County (published), Vol. 1, 33, 123, on his marriage record.
  2. [S172] "Maud Wood's Bible".
  3. [S246] Letter, Muriel Alta (Cardinal) Johnston to John Cardinal, February 26, 1999.
  4. [S350] Census Records of Kings County (published), Year=1901, Location=Lockhartville, Code=R, Fam=50, Page=5.
  5. [S143] Marriage Records of Kings County (published), Vol. 1, 23, 56.
  6. [S192] Muriel (Cardinal) Johnston, "Muriel Johnston's Family Group Sheet", which gives the date as 4 Feb 1868.
  7. [S350] Census Records of Kings County (published), Year=1881, Location=Lower Horton, Code=i-2, Page=24, Fam=111.
  8. [S350] Census Records of Kings County (published), Year=1891, Location=Avonport, Code=i-1, Fam=98, Page=23.
  9. [S474] Ancestry.com, Census Images Online, Year=1930, Roll=T626_914, Image=501, State=MA, County=Middlesex, Township=Burlington, SD=5, ED=193, Sheet=9A.
  10. [S192] Muriel (Cardinal) Johnston, "Muriel Johnston's Family Group Sheet".