No issue with Jim Slade.
Linnie Bates Lawrence Worley lived all of her life at Goshen Springs, Mississippi.
Susan Lawrence Bates lived all of her life in Goshen Springs, Mississippi.
Information on Will & Susan Lawrence Bates' family was taken from their family Bible, King James Version purchased September 10, 1910. In 1957 the Bible was in the possession of Susan Lawrence Bates, Rt. 2 Box 36, Lena, Mississippi.
In 1957 John Monroe Lawrence lived in Pelahatcie, Mississippi.
Omer and Bessie Lawrence Tucker had no children.
64. Clifton Jefferson Lawrence
Information on the Clifton Jefferson and Della Fortenberry Lawrence family was taken from the family Bible. It was published in 1899 by the American Bible Society. In 1957 it was in the possession of Clifton Jefferson Lawrence in Goshen Springs, Mississippi.
John Benjamin Lawrence received from Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi, an A.B. and M.S. degree in 1899 and 1902, respectively, and a D.D. from Louisiana College, Alexandria, Louisiana in 1910. Dr. Lawrence was ordained a Baptist minister in 1900, served as pastor at Greenwood, Mississippi, 1900-1903, at Humbolt, Tennessee, 1903-1907, First Baptist Church, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1907-13. He was also Editor Baptist Chronicle; Corresponding Secretary Baptist State Convention Board of Mississippi, 1915-1921, and Supt. of Baptist Education Commission in Mississippi, during the same period. He served as pastor First Baptist Church, Shawnee, Okalahoma, 1921, President of Oklahoma Baptist University, 1922, Vice-President Southern Baptist Commission, 1916-17.
Dr. Lawrence left Oklahoma in Dec. 1926 to accept a position as Secretary of the Baptist State Mission Board of Missouri, where he remained until July 15, 1929. During that time, he worked to develop the denominational activity in Missouri, building up the churches, and in every way endeavor to increase spirituality and the mission work.
During the years he was in Missouri, the Secretary of the Baptist Home Mission Board, of the Southern Baptist Convention, was found in default of two and one-half million dollars and the Committee turned to Dr. Lawrence as the man to pay that debt and restore the Home Mission Board to its previous standing. Dr. Lawrence refused, thinking the task was hopeless, the Committee had different ideas. He was invited to Atlanta, Georgia to meet with the Committee, where they pressed for a favorable response. Dr. Lawrence left the Conference to pray and ask God's guidance. He also asked his pastor, Dr. John Vines to join him in prayer that God might reveal to him his will.
Subsequently, Dr. Lawrence accepted the task and outlined a program of action; first, to pay the debt and save the credit of the Southern Baptist denomination, second, to move the Board out of the inadequate space then occupied and buy a good permanent home, third, to establish an adequate, comprehensive Home Mission program. With this, Dr. Lawrence adopted the Motto: "Trust God, and Tell the People."
That program was accomplished, the debt paid, a beautiful eight-story building at 161 Spring St., in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia, not only serves as a Home for the Mission Board work, but returns a nice revenue on the investment. It was dedicated April 27, 1950. The program for an expanded Mission work has gond forward and continue in a glorious way. By this time, Dr. Lawrence had given 23 years to the task, and then asked to be relieved of his duties at the end of 1953.
During his years of ministry and denominational work, Dr. Lawrence wrote twenty odd books that have had more than 300,000 circulation. In his fifth year, 1956, he wrote, "The History of the Baptist Home Mission Board, and its work which is not being published as of 1957.
In 1957, Dr. Lawrence, then Secretary Emeritus of the Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, lived at 1695 Rock Springs Rd., Atlanta, Georgia, where he was engaged in writing for the Mission Board, from his vast storehouse of knowledge and experiences, for future generations.
On Dec. 1946, his beloved wife, Mary Helen Alford Lawrence, who had stood beside him from young manhood, through trials, hardships, sunshine and rain, gladness and sorrow, passed on to her well earned rest from long suffering. She died and was buried in Atlanta, Georgia.
On April 26, 1949, Dr. Lawrence married Miss Helen Huston, a lovely, queenly lady to grace his home. Contented and happy, with renewed vigor, he goes about his work with the alertness of a much younger man. His mind is keen, his step is strong and elastic, and he has a wonderful, cheerful outlook on life which makes him appear a much younger man than the records show. He died September 1968 and is buried in Atlanta, Georgia.
All information on John Benjamin and Helen Alford Lawrence and family was taken from their Bible. It was purchased by the father of Helen Alford Lawrence, Stewart Floyd Alford, where he first kept his records, then it passed to his daughter. It is Butler's edition, Holy Bible, containing the Old and the New Testaments, translated out of the original tongue and with the former translations diligently and revised with references and Various Reading together with the APOCRYPHA, in Two Volumes, Published by E. H. Butler and Company, 1852, Philadelphia, PA. In 1957 the Bible was in the private library of John Benjamin Lawrence, 1695 Rock Springs Rd., N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. (Mother of Helen Alford Lawrence was Aurora Todd Hoy).
Died from scarlet fever.
Information on the family of Mamie Brown Lawrence Horne was taken from her Bible, published by World Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, copyrighted 1901, purchased in 1915. As of June 1957 the bible was in her possession at 517 Melba St., Jackson, Mississippi.
In 1921 the Benjamin Frankling Horne family moved to Jackson, Mississippi. He was employed by Hinds Co. in the Public Parks Dept. for many years.
Second husband was in the roofing business in Jackson, Mississippi, previously spent 14 years in the U.S. Army.