Person

Granville H. Lawson (Christian County, Kentucky, tailor, merchant, and county clerk)

b. 1815?

Christian County, Kentucky, tailor, merchant, and county clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Jane Holeman Lawson in Christian County, Kentucky, on May 18, 1841. Father of Henry C. Lawson, Thomas E. Lawson, Mary E. Lawson, Lucy H. Lawson, and Jacob W. Lawson. Tailor in Christian County in 1850. Merchant in Hopkinsville in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Hopkinsville in 1860. County clerk in Christian County from 1862 to 1865.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 422B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 674.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 273A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Christian County Marriages, Film #000465562, p. 15.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 302.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 11.

KYR-0001-031-0084.

Citation

Lawson, Granville H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211363 (November 12, 2026).

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