Augustus Channing LAWTON

(b. 1 December 1842 , Westport, Massachusetts, USA d. 23 January 1898 , Westport, Massachusetts, USA )

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Augustus Channing LAWTON was born 1 December 1842 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA

Augustus Channing LAWTON was the child of John LAWTON and Julia Ann TRIPP and the grandchild of: (paternal) Richard LAWTON and Susannah HARRISON (maternal) Nathaniel TRIPP and Sophia DAVENPORT

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Augustus Channing married Mary A SIMMONS 31 March 1868 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA . Mary A SIMMONS was born abt. 1840

Augustus Channing married (2) Rosina J SHERMAN 20 April 1871 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA . The couple had (at least) 4 children.
Rosina J SHERMAN was born abt. 1843 in Massachusetts, USA. Rosina J died abt. 1929 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point).

Augustus Channing LAWTON died 23 January 1898 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA .

Birth: 1842
Death: 1898

Family links:
Spouse:
Rosina J Sherman Lawton (1843 - 1929)

Children:
Mary N Lawton Luther (1873 - 1967)

Burial:
Maple Grove Cemetery
Westport
Bristol County
Massachusetts, USA

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Family and Children of Augustus Channing LAWTON

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Augustus Channing LAWTON married

Mary A SIMMONS-- Date: 31 March 1868 Place: New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
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Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910
groom's name: Augustus C Lawton
groom's birth date: 1843
groom's birthplace:
groom's age: 25
bride's name: Mary A Simmons
bride's birth date: 1840
bride's birthplace:
bride's age: 28
marriage date: 31 Mar 1868
marriage place: New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts
groom's father's name: John
groom's mother's name: Julen Tripp
bride's father's name: William S
bride's mother's name: Eunice Macomber
groom's race:
groom's marital status:
groom's previous wife's name:
bride's race:
bride's marital status:
bride's previous husband's name:
indexing project (batch) number: I01286-9
system origin: Massachusetts-EASy
source film number: 1994022
reference number: 161

Children of Augustus Channing LAWTON and Mary A SIMMONS:

Augustus Channing LAWTON married

Rosina J SHERMAN-- Date: 20 April 1871 Place: Westport, Massachusetts, USA
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Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915
name: Agustus C. Lawton
titles & terms:
event: Marriage
event date: 20 Apr 1871
event place: Westport, Massachusetts
gender: Male
age: 28
marital status:
race:
birth date:
birthplace:
marriage registration year:
marriage registration place:
estimated birth year: 1843
father: John
father's titles & terms:
mother: Julia A. Tripp
mother's titles & terms:
spouse: Rosina J. Sherman
spouse's titles & terms:
spouse's race:
spouse's marital status:
spouse's father: Kempton
spouse's father's titles & terms:
spouse's mother: Rosina A. Chace
spouse's mother's titles & terms:
record number: 200
film number: 1433029
digital folder number: 4279595
image number: 00514
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Children of Augustus Channing LAWTON and Rosina J SHERMAN:

Mary Nelson LAWTON (b.14 March 1873, Westport, Massachusetts, USA d. abt. 1967, Westport, Massachusetts, USA )
m. Charles Dennis LUTHER 22 February 1913 in Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point)

Edwin Dwelley LAWTON (b.4 January 1875, Westport, Massachusetts, USA d. abt. 1945, Westport, Massachusetts, USA )

Clarence Augustus LAWTON (b.10 January 1877, Westport, Massachusetts, USA d. abt. 1962, Westport, Massachusetts, USA )
m. Mary Annie DEVOLL 25 August 1909 in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA

Susan Ethel LAWTON (b.27 February 1880, Westport, Massachusetts, USA d. abt. 1935, Westport, Massachusetts, USA )

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Birth
Name: Augustus C Lawton
Event Type: Birth
Birth Date: 1842
Birth Place: Westport, Massachusetts

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1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1845 - James Knox Polk becomes President of the United States

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President of the United States

1850 Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts
name: Augustus C Lawton
residence: Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts
age: 7 years
calculated birth year: 1843
birthplace: Massachusetts
gender: Male
race (original):
race (expanded):
death month:
death year:
film number: 14703
digital gs number: 4194639
image number: 00498
line number: 14
dwelling house number: 82
family number: 96
marital status:
free or slave:
Household Gender Age
John Lawton M 35y
Julia A Lawton F 35y
Augustus C Lawton M 7y
Sophia K Lawton F 4y
Richard N Lawton M 2y
Melintha B Lawton F 5m
George B Lawton M 42y
1850 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1855 Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts
name: Augustus C Lawton
age: 12
estimated birth year: 1843
gender: Male
race:
birthplace: Massachusetts
residence: Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts
family number: 396
line number: 7
film number: 000953977
digital folder number: 004279391
image number: 00331
Household Gender Age
John Lawton M 40
Augustus C Lawton M 12
Sophia R Lawton F 9
Nelson R Lawton M 8
Melintha B Lawton F 7
Julia A Lawton F 4

1855 Massachusetts Census
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1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1860 Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts
name: Augustus Lawton
residence: , Bristol, Massachusetts
ward: Westport
age: 17 years
estimated birth year: 1843
birthplace: Mass
gender: Male
page: 408
family number: 6
film number: 803491
dgs number: 4231351
image number: 00413
nara number: M653

1860 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1868 Marriage / Partner
Augustus Channing LAWTON and Mary A SIMMONS 31 March 1868, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

He was 25 years old.

1869 Death of Son
Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
name: Lawton
titles & terms:
event: Death
event date: 17 Aug 1869
event place: Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts
residence:
street address:
gender: Male
age: 0
marital status: Single
occupation:
birth date:
birthplace: Westport, MA
estimated birth year: 1869
burial date:
burial place:
cemetery:
father: Augustus Lawton
father's titles & terms:
father's birthplace: Westport, MA
mother: Mary A. Simmons
mother's titles & terms:
mother's birthplace: New Bedford, MA
additional relatives:
spouse:
volume/ page/ certificate number: vol 220 pg 152
film number: 960194
frame number:
digital folder number: 4221409
image number: 169

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1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1871 Marriage / Partner
Augustus Channing LAWTON and Rosina J SHERMAN 20 April 1871, Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point)

He was 28 years old.

1873 Birth of Child
Mary Nelson LAWTON was born 14 March 1873, Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point)

Augustus Channing was 30 years old.

1875 Birth of Child
Edwin Dwelley LAWTON was born 4 January 1875, Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point)

Augustus Channing was 32 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 Birth of Child
Clarence Augustus LAWTON was born 10 January 1877, Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point)

Augustus Channing was 34 years old.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1880 Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts
name: Augustus C. Lawton
residence: Westport, Bristol, Massachusetts
birthdate: 1843
birthplace: Massachusetts, United States
relationship to head: Self
spouse's name: Rosina J. Lawton
spouse's birthplace: Massachusetts, United States
father's name:
father's birthplace: Massachusetts, United States
mother's name:
mother's birthplace: Massachusetts, United States
race or color (expanded): White
ethnicity (standardized): American
gender: Male
martial status: Married
age (expanded): 37 years
occupation: Dealer In Milk
nara film number: T9-0523
page: 249
page character: B
entry number: 1265
film number: 1254523
Household Gender Age
Augustus C. Lawton M 37
spouse Rosina J. Lawton F 37
child Mary N. Lawton F 7
child Edwin D. Lawton M 5
child Clarance H. Lawton M 3
child Lawton F 3M

1880 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1880 Birth of Child
Susan Ethel LAWTON was born 27 February 1880, Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point)

Augustus Channing was 37 years old.

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President of the United States

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1893 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1897 - William McKinley becomes President of the United States

1898 Death
Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
name: Augustus C. Lawton
titles & terms:
event: Death
event date: 23 Jan 1898
event place: Westport, Massachusetts
residence: Westport
street address:
gender: Male
age: 55
marital status: Married
occupation: Farmer
birth date:
birthplace: Westport
estimated birth year: 1843
burial date:
burial place: Westport
cemetery:
father: John Lawton
father's titles & terms:
father's birthplace: Westport
mother: Julia A. Tripp
mother's titles & terms:
mother's birthplace: Westport
additional relatives:
spouse:
volume/ page/ certificate number: v 481 p 365 no 2
film number: 961524
frame number:
digital folder number: 4225843
image number: 340

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Augustus is buried at: Maple Grove Cemetery
Reed Rd

Westport, Massachusetts, USA (Westport Point)

http://westport.loreprojects.com/cemetery_view.cfm?id=19

Added: 9/3/2010 8:25:49 PM - Updated: 3/26/2025 7:19:12 PM