John Lawrence
James Lawrence, the father of the above, was born in Maryland, came to Ohio at the close of the last or beginning of the present century, and settled in Butler County. Here in 1807 he married Elizabeth Legg. By this union there were seven children. He died in 1823. Mrs. Lawrence died in 1874, at the age of eiglity-three years.
John Lawrence, a son of the above, was born in Cincinnati in 1819, came with his mother to Shelby County in 1830, and located in Washington Township, where he has passed the most of his life. In 1847 he was married to Sarah Blackwood, of Shelby County, by whom he had two children, only one now living, viz., Joseph G. Mr. L.’s wife died in 1854. In 1856 he married Elizabeth Burris. By this union they have three children, Sarah B., Margaret E., and Mary K.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883