190BORN: 26 Feb 1828, DIED: 21 Nov 1872, MARRIED: Bushrod Washington LAWSON, 11 Oct 1853, Ritchie County, WV
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Bushrod W. Lawson [B. W. Lawson] was long a resident of this part of the country, but removed to Marion, late in the eighties. He first married Miss Anna Pritchard, and they were the parents of Mrs. Lydia (M. R.) Lowther, Parkerwburg; Mrs. Flora (Marshall) Prunty, and Mrs. Nancy (David) Clayton, Oxford, and several other children, who passed on in childhood and in youth.
Being deprived of his first companion by death, on November 21, 1872, he was married to Miss Fannie Prunty, daughter of Jacob Prunty, and five children, four of whom survive, are the fruits of this union. . . .