Florence M. Smith

Family/Spouse: Gilmore Nelson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Emily Savannah Lawson on 11 Apr 1886 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Emily (daughter of Braxton Rarlson "Doc" Lawson and Lodosca M. Tucker) was born on 31 Dec 1871 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 22 Feb 1952 in Danbury, Stokes, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Military: 04 May 1861, Stokes County, North Carolina; Enlisted as a Private on 04 May 1861 at the age of 18; Enlisted in Company A, 2nd Battn Regiment North Carolina on 04 May 1861; Absent in arrest on 30 March 1863; Deserted Company A, 2nd Battn Regiment North Carolina on 15 July 1863
• Newspaper: 22 Sep 1887, Danbury, Stokes County, NC; Owner of Mineral Lands in Danbury (Danbury Reporter)

Notes:

Newspaper:
Stokes County Minerals

We learn that one or more realroad Co's want to accertain the fact whether we have iron ores, and other minerals in the section of Stokes just around Danbury. Our word for it, we have in great abundance, but we say come and see for yourselves. This section of Stokes county will furnish more freight to the square mile, than any section of the same extend in the state, we mean in tonage, the freights will be heavy, magnetic iron ore, the hemetites, manganese, graphite and several other minerals, such as lime, mica, asbestos, building stone, etc.

Below we give a partial list of those who own iron and other minerals here, and as we have said before, the existence of those minerals is no theory, some of them having been worked near one hundred years.

J.H Fagg, magnetic iron good out crop, Powell Lawson, undeveloped, Brax Lankford, undeveloped, William Nelson good veins 6 to 8 feet thick, Julius Lawson, undeveloped, B.R. Lawson, undeveloped, William Fagg, old works good vein, Mastin Mabe, good veins.

The above is only a partial list of those who own mineral lands in this section the mineral right on which in most cases may be brought not only reasonable but low considering the real value.

Buried:
Hard Bank Cemetery

Braxton married Lodosca M. Tucker on 25 Feb 1867 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Lodosca (daughter of Gabriel Walter Tucker and Sarah E. Tilley) was born on 18 Nov 1844 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 1 Feb 1926 in Danbury, Stokes, North Carolina, USA; was buried on 02 Feb 1926 in Hard Bank Cemetery, Danbury, Stokes County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Pneumonia

Other Events:

• Voters List: 2 Mar 1833, Stokes County, North Carolina; Tucker and his brother Preston were on the voters list for Stokes County.
• Deed: 11 Sep 1833, Stokes County, North Carolina; Chr McAnnaly & Elisha Bonner of Stokes to Tucker Lawson & West Lankford for $1.00, a tract of land on waters of Buck Island Creek
• Deed: 7 Jun 1842, Stokes County, North Carolina; Thomas Lawson's Land was divided by the county into equal shares for his heirs, lying on Barnes Branch, each heir getting 11 or 12 acres and having to pay monies to the other heirs to make the divisions equal.
• Land Sale: 1 Dec 1847, Buck Island, Stokes County, NC; The Weekly Standard paper from Raleigh NC listed lands that were being sold for back taxes for the years 1844, 45 & 46 Listed was Tucker Lawson: On Bucks Island 100a Value $100, tax owed $1.30
• Probate: 1866, Stokes County, North Carolina
• Deed: 1 Feb 1872, Stokes county, North Carolina; Division of Land Among Tucker's Children

Notes:

Birth:
Children named in the 1841 estate records of Thomas Lawson and Celia Hall are Tucker, Flynt, Preston, Kinah, Patsey, Polly, Hugh, Sally, Frances, Thompson, Nancy, and Catharine.

Deed:
John Fagg and wife Frances 11 acres...east corner of the Widow Celey Lawsons

Catherine Lawson 13 acres
Sally Lilly 11 acres
James Sands in right of Tucker Lawson 12 acres
James Sands in right of Kinah Lawson 12 acres
James Sands in right of Charles and Patsy Brown 12 acres
James Sands in right of Preston Lawson 12 acres
Nancy Lawson
Polly Lawson
Thompson Lawson
James Sands in right of Flynt Lawson...

Tucker married Elizabeth "Betty" Lankford in 1825 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Elizabeth (daughter of Wesley "West" Lankford and Docia) was born in 1810 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 04 Jun 1862 in Stokes County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
What is the source for death date? She is not named in the 1872 deed for the division of land of Tucker Sr dec'd among his children, so indicates she died before that time, but don't have a source for the 1862 date.

Gabriel married Sarah E. Tilley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]