Salathiel Oral Lawson . . . was the only one of William Lawson's ten children who went to Texas. His mother Eliza Marshall , the daughter of Francis Marshall was buried at White Oak Cemetery in Ritchie County, two miles east of Pullman, WV on County Rt. 9. Salathiel's grandfather, Theopolus Lawson came from Scotland to Virginia and married Rebecca Russaw, possibly the daughter of a wilderness surveyor and an Indian woman. Salathiel married Elmina Meredith, daughter of Job Meredith, who had joined her parents' Seventh Day Baptist Church when she was 18. In 1880, Salathiel and two teenaged sons were farming in Ritchie County. They moved to northeast Travis County, Texas a few years later. Salathiel's daughter Addie Lawson came to Texas in 1890 with her husband Enoch Marsh McGinnis. Rex, Delsie and Kittie used to visit their grandparents in Austin in the early 1900's. Kittie wrote from college that Elmina Meredith had saved up 13 chickens for Kittie's visit and comments, "Think of it! She surely expects me to eat chicken." Salathiel died in 1910 and Elmina died in 1912.143

Salathial married Miss Elmina Meredith, daughter of Job Meredith, and resided here for a number of years before going to Texas in the early eighties, where he still survives. He was the father of Mandeville, the late Leni, Mrs. Enoch McGinnis, Mrs. Eva Doak, Morda, and Roxie. . . . 145