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Lawson Graves

The inscription was transcribed by the DAR. The notes about the burials are also by the DAR. The Lawsons had no children of their own, but provided a home for several orphans. The children’s burials mentioned are probably of foster children. Sarah Short Lawson died June 6, 1882, according to a note made by a neighbor Squire Martin, who kept lists of deaths of friends and relatives.

DAR Information Follows

Sheets Farm, near Manville [A 1920s tract map shows James Sheets owned the E1/2 of the SE/14 Section. Brushy Fork Creek traverses this land on the north. This farm is about a mile east of Manville.]

On an Indian mound, at top of hill, directly back of the Sheets home are buried William Lawson and wife Sarah Short Lawson. An iron fence surrounds the graves and a stone the [sic] erected here.

Visited graves, Jan. 2, 1939; Column broken off, fence broken, and no trace of small stones. Several children who were buried in yard at Lawson home were later buried on this Indian mound. Iron fence has this on it “U.B. Stribling, patented Sept. 20, 1870"

Inscription on stone