Horace Lawrence and Rachel Taylor

Horace Lawrence was born in Salt Creek, Wayne Count, Ohio, on August 10, 1829. He was one of six children born to Martin Lawrence and Submit Griffin. (Blog January 2014). By 1850 Horace’s mother had passed away and his father, Martin, and his two brothers, Martin Jr. and Chauncey were now living in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio. In the 1850 census Horace is living in Pleasant Valley, Madison County, Iowa with his cousin Chauncey Barlow. In the Union County marriage records we find a marriage recorded February 11, 1852 between Horace Lawrence and Rachael C. Taylor. Rachael was the daughter of William Taylor and Betsy Burdick. She was born August 20, 1833 in Jerome, Union County, Ohio. By the time of the 1860 census Martin Lawrence and his three sons, Martin Jr., Chauncey and Horace are all living in Sabula, Jackson County, Ohio. Sabula was a lumber town sitting on the Mississippi. Timber cut down in Minnesota and Wisconsin was floated down the Mississippi to towns like Sabula where it was processed into finished lumber or made into furniture. The Lawrence brothers were all listed as carpenters or cabinetmakers in the census records. All three Lawrence brothers served in the Civil War. Their brother Chauncey was killed at Vicksburg.------- Horace and Rachel were living in Sabula at the time of her death in 1874. Her headstone reads; Rachel C, wife of H Lawrence, died Mar. 26, 1874, 40y 07 m 06d.” Rachel/Rachael is buried in the Lawrence family plot in the Evergreen Cemetery in Sabula/Union next to her father in law, Martin, and her daughter, Mary Submit. Horace remarried taking Amanda as his second wife. Horace and Amanda Heckert were married in Clinton, Iowa May 31, 1876. The couple lived in Sabula until the turn of the century. Horace is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa. His headstone contains the dates; Aug 10, 1829—July 25, 1912.------- Four children were born to Horace and Rachael in Sabula. The first was Mary Submit named after her grandmother Submit Griffin Lawrence. The only record of her is her headstone, which is found in the Evergreen Cemetery in Sabula/Union, Iowa. She died on October 7, 1858 at the age of 5 years, 9 months and 9 days. --------- The 1860 census, taken in Sabula, shows Horace and Rachael and two children, Emma E., age 5, born in Iowa and Edward, age 5/12, born in Iowa. Emma married Alonzo Charles Wells in Jackson County, Iowa November 5, 1872. Wells family history lists her date of death as August 26, 1841 in Mason City Iowa. According to Wells family tradition her full name was Emma Elizabeth. In the early years of the marriage the couple lived in Sabula. The 1900 census finds them in Eagle Grove, Iowa. The 1900 census lists her date of birth as Aug 1856 and Alonzo’s as Feb. 1847 born in New Hampshire. The 1925 Iowa census finds the widowed Emma living in Cedar Rapids. The census record lists her parents as Horace Lawrence and Rachael Taylor. Living in the same household is her widowed sister Nellie McCone. In the 1930 census she is living with her son Harry Wells in Cedar Rapids. Her last known address was found in the 1940 city directory for Mason City. She is listed as Emma E. Wells widow of Alonzo C. Emma and Alonzo had a large family. She named her oldest son, Horace.------- Edward Lawrence is recorded in the 1860 census at the age of five months and the 1870 census at the age of ten. In the 1880 census there is an Edward Lawrence age 19, born Iowa, Carpenter, living in Muscatine, Iowa another lumber town setting on the Mississippi. The 1880 census is the last record of an Edward Lawrence.------- Nellie Lawrence is listed as age 8 in the 1870 census. In the 1880 census the 18-year-old Nellie is listed as a servant in Iowa Township, in Jackson County. Found in the 1885 Iowa census in the household of A. Charles and Emma Wells is Nellie Lawrence age 23. According to a very well documented McCone family history Nellie married Lewis McCone in Mason City, Iowa. Lewis was the son of William McCone he was born in Linn County, Iowa in 1871. Nellie was nine years older than Lewis. The family history includes the following, “Lewis was tall he said if he found a really short woman, he would marry her Nellie was 4’6”.” The couple spent most of their married years in Colorado where Lewis died July 13, 1922. Lewis is buried in the Fairmont Cemetery in Denver Colorado. The couple did not have any children. In the probate records, recorded in 1922, Nellie declared, “my age is 60”. In 1925 Nellie is living with her sister Emma in Iowa. McCone family history gives us a date of death January 18, 1930 in Mason City, Iowa. Again the two sisters, Nellie and Emma, are found living close to each other in the Mason City directory.------- Horace Lawrence / Submit Griffin / Edward / James / Samuel Griffin Of Killingworth Connecticut.------ Reference the Blog; January 2014, June and July 2013, March 2012.