Finding aid to the Mary Carrithers Lawrence Genealogical Collection

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
MARY CARRITHERS LAWRENCE (1873-1939)
GENEALOGICAL COLLECTION
The collection includes correspondence, notes, clippings and hereditary society
applications concerning Kentucky families collected by Mary Carrithers Lawrence.
BOX 1

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1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5
1-6
1-7
1-8
1-9
1-10
1-11
1-12

Acton family
Ashby family
Baker family
Baylor family
Beard family
Berryman family
Brown family (Col. Thomas)
Campbell family
Carson family
Claggett family
Carrithers family
Coggeshall family

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1-14
1-15
1-16
1-17
1-18
1-19
1-20
1-21
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1-25

Cralle/Ford/Maddox families
Crosby family
Ecton family
Fawcett family (Bible records)
Fullenwider family
Graham family (I)
Graham family (II)
Hackworth family
Hamilton family
Hickman family
Hickson/Hixon family
Jackson, John, family
Jameson family

BOX 2

2-1
2-2
2-3
2-4
2-5
2-6
2-7
2-8
2-9
2-10
2-11
2-12
2-13

Kelly family
Lawrence family
Mabry family
Major family
Mallory family
McKay, Richard family
Middleton family
Owen family
Patterson family
Peters family
Reed family
Rice family
Selby family

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2-15
2-16
2-17
2-18
2-19
2-20
2-21

Shilliday family
Smith family (in Kentucky)
Sterrett/Murrell families
Wallace family
Waller family
Waters family
Watts family
Winston, Anthony
(Lineage – DAR Application)
Woolls family
Yount family
“How they lived at Bryant
Station”
Miscellaneous families &
Correspondence
Shelby Co., KY, Clippings
Rev. War Soldiers Miscellany

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2-23
2-24
2-25
2-26
2-27

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 Memorial Avenue
Lynchburg, Virginia 24501
(434) 846-0501
MARY CARRITHERS LAWRENCE (1873-1939)
Mary A. Carrithers Lawrence, daughter of Adam Porter Carrithers and Mary E.
Stout, was born 2 September 1873, in Shelby County, Kentucky. She married Graham
Lawrence, M.D. (born 1870) on 19 October 1898, in Shelby County, Kentucky. Dr.
Lawrence died 7 October 1938. Mrs. Lawrence died 26 February 1939.
Mrs. Lawrence served as State Regent for Kentucky, 1931-1935, as well as State
Historian, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. She was also an active
member of the Colonial Dames of the First Colonist Society of America and a member of
Daughters of 1812. She was Chaplain of the National Association of Children of the
American Revolution at the time of her death.
[Shelby Sentinel (Shelbyville, Kentucky), 3 March 1939; Mary Carrithers Lawrence Genealogical Collection,
MS1225, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]

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