LAWHORN, Leonard (Biography)

Leonard Lawhorn (1842 – 22 Jul 1929 Memphis) married Margaret L. “Maggie” Brooks (Jan 1849 Memphis – August 2, 1895 Memphis) on 12 Sep 1867 in Shelby County, TN. Margaret was the second daughter of James Monroe Brooks and Mary Ann Kingston. According to Leonard’s obituary in “The Appeal,” he “was orphaned at an early age and rose from newsboy to head of what was the largest wholesale grocery company south of the Ohio, L. Lawhorn and Co. (Estab. 1864). He enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, served 3 years, was captured at Corinth, and was taken to the Union prison at Cairo, IL.  He escaped and returned to Memphis as a stowaway on a Union Troop ship. Unable to break through the Union lines, Leonard was forced to remain in Memphis during the remainder of the war. He was a Memphis Alderman and member of several sportsman’s clubs, Angerona Lodge, F and AM, St. Elmo Commandery, Knights Templar, and Loyal Order of Moose. During Memphis’ Yellow Fever epidemic Leonard was involved in rehabilitation work.”  He is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis. Margaret is buried in an marked grave at Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis. (See Brooks)

 

Issue of Margaret Brooks and Leonard Lawhorn

Julia Valerie Lawhorn   (26 Jun 1868 Memphis, Shelby, TN – 7 Feb 1962 Memphis, Shelby, TN) married John Gray Blount (6 Aug 1866 Washington, DC – 8 Dec 1940 Memphis, Shelby, TN) on Aug 1892 in Memphis. He was the son of

John Gray Blount and Elizabeth Watkins Perry. Julia and John were buried in Forrest Hill Cemetery, Memphis.  Issue:

Julia Valerie Blount (1893-1994)

Margaret Louise Blount (1895-1989)  School teacher.

John Gray Blount (b. 1897)

Elizabeth Perry Blount (1900-1990)

William Augustus Blount (1909-1981) married (1) Margaret Elivira Simkins (1906 Salem, OR – 1951) in 1939 in Memphis.  He married (2) Lucy Ann Tate (b. 1922 Bartlett, Shelby, TN), daughter of Lemuel Hall Tate and Lida Chester Hammontree, on 27 Feb 1954 in Memphis. Tate County, Mississippi is named after Thomas Simpson Tate, father of Lemuel. Lucy Ann Tate married (1) William Frederick Niedringhaus Randolph of St. Louis, Missouri.

May Pearl Lawhorn  (1870-1953 Raleigh, Shelby, TN) married Henry Wyatt Bayliss (1863 Clarksville, TN – 1930 Memphis) in 1892, son of William G. Bayliss.  IssueBasyl Bayliss (1892- 1909) and Henry W. Bayliss.

Leonard A. Lawhorn (b. 1873) married Mr. Pigeon from Memphis.

Leon Lawhorn (1875 Memphis – 1934 Memphis) married Minerva Rogers.  Issue: Margaret Louise, Lillian M., Roger, Leon, Clarence, Julian R., and Paul Geriach.

Dr. Cecil Claine Lawhorn (1878-1971 Milwaukee, WI) married Julia Elle (b. 1876) in 1898.

Brookes Lawhorn  (b. 1879)

John F. Lawhorn  (b. 1881) married Agnes Towers in 1900.

Julian Lawhorn married Rachel.

Submitted by Brenda B. Watson

STEVENS, Emma Ann Williams (Biography)

 

Emma Ann Williams Stevens was born December 16, 1858 at Shalles Township, Allegheny County, PA. 

Emma Ann Williams was the daughter of Sgt. David Richard Williams and Arabella Foreman Williams. David Richard Williams died November 6, 1880, Memphis, Shelby, TN and is buried in Memphis National Cemetery. Arabelle Foreman Williams died March 21, 1897 in Shelby County and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, Shelby, TN. 

Emma Ann Williams married James Wharton Stevens on February 22, 1879, Shelby County. 

The children of Emma Ann Williams Stevens and James Wharton Stevens are: 

  •  Emma Gertrude Stevens (Mrs. William S. Randolph, Sr.) 
  • Jimetta Stevens (Mrs. Eugene Johnson Bettis) 
  • Margaret Louise Stevens (Mrs. Robert Burgher Pirtle) 
  • Arrabelle Stevens (Mrs. Tommy G. Tucker) 

1880 census, Davidson County, TN: James Charles Stevens, Jr. (55), Amanda (53), William G. (20), and family of James Wharton Stevens (22), Emma Ann (24), and baby Emma Gertrude (5/12)

 1890 No census 

1900 Can not find 

1910 census, Memphis, Shelby, TN, ED 240, page 211, James Wharton Stevens (51), Emma Ann (53), daughter Arrabelle (22), brother, Charles George (42), and family Robert Burgher Pirtle (29), Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle (27), and daughter, Eva R Pirtle (7). 

1920 census, Chattanooga, Hamilton, TN: James Wharton Stevens (62), Emma Ann (62), with Robert Burgher Pirtle (39) and wife, Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle,  (37) and daughter, Eva R Pirtle (17). 

James Wharton Stevens died January 16, 1930 in Memphis, Shelby, TN and buried in Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, TN.  

Emma Ann Williams Stevens died December 1, 1921 in Chattanooga, TN while staying with her daughter, Margaret Louise Stevens Pirtle because of illness. She was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery-Midtown, Memphis, Shelby, TN.

 

The girls left to right, pic made about 1890: with married last names.

  • Jimetta Stevens (Bettis)
  • Margaret Louise Stevens (Pirtle)
  • Arrabelle Stevens (Tucker)
  • Emma Gertrude Stevens (Randolph)
submitted by Peggy Rhinerson

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