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Fairfield Cemetery ~ Isaac N. Lawrence
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Lawrence, Isaac N.
LAST: Lawrence FIRST: Isaac MID: N.
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 31 Oct 1830 DIED: 10 Mar 1887 BURIED: 
OCCUPATION:  Wagon Maker; Sawyer
BIRTH PLACE:  Virginia
DEATH PLACE: 
NOTES: 
1st MARRIAGE - "I. N. Lorance [sic] & Miss Harriet Elizabeth Millsap, m 24 Dec 1854; Neil Johnson, M. G. #164, pg 40";
1860 OR CENSUS - Isaac Lawrence, age 39, occupation wagon maker, b. Virginia, is enumerated with Harriet Lawrence, age 37, b. Arkansas, along with John, age 1, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is C. E. Lawrence, age 36, b. New York, J. W. Lawrence, age 17, occupation apprentice, b. Missouri, and J. Martin, age 38, occupation blacksmith, b. Canada.
2nd MARRIAGE - "I. N. Lawrence & Emma F. Ditmar [Ditmars], m 5 Jul 1868 at the schoolhouse, Dist. #26; D. M. Keene, M. G. Wit: A. P. Magness & Mary Skaife. Consent of Nancy Ditmars #1071 pg 402".
1870 OR CENSUS - I. N. Lawrence, age 39, occupation Sawyer, b. Virginia, is enumerated with Emma F., age 20, b. Ohio, along with John, age 11, Alma E., age 9, Elizabeth, age 4, Louisa, age 5, and Fances, age 8 m's, all born in Oregon.
1880 WA CENSUS - I. N. Lawrence, age 49, farmer, b. Virginia, is enumerated with wife Emma F., age 29, b. Ohio, along with John E., age 21, farmer, b. Oregon, Alice J., age 15, b. Oregon, Ella F., age 10, b. Oregon, and Bertha M., age 5, b. Oregon;
BIOGRAPHICAL: (the following is an excerpt of a biographical sketch of Alma, a daughter of Isaac Lawrence, from a History of Early Pioneer Families of Hood River, Oregon):
"Mrs. Alma Howe is a native Oregonian, having been born in Marion County in June 1860. Her father's name was Isaac Lawrence, the mother's was Harriet Millsap Lawrence, she died leaving four children, Alma being the eldest of the three girls. A few years later her father married again and the family moved to east Portland where Mr. Lawrence built the first sawmill erected in that locality. The home of Lawrence was near what is now the junction of Hawthorne and Grand Avenue at that time it was well hidden in a grove of trees, with no hint of a coming city."
OBITUARY: 
INSCRIPTION: 
Isaac N.
Lawrence
Born
Oct. 31, 1830
Died
Mar. 10, 1887
SOURCES: 
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Marrriage Records of Marion Co., Oregon, 1849-1871, Vol. I, pg 10
1860 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield, pg 256)
Marrriage Records of Marion Co., Oregon, 1849-1871, Vol. I, pg 69;
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion County, N. Salem, pg 78);
History of Early Pioneer Families of Hood River, Oregon, Vol 3, pg 254
1880 WA TER CENSUS (Wahkiakum Co., Grays River Valley, ED 26, pg 163A)
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