John Edward Lawrence

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his parent's place at Randolph in Bibb County, AL, he enlisted there on 7 April 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was wounded in the chest in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was furloughed for 40 days from 30 September, then admitted to a hospital in Selma, AL on 13 November, and was afterward again on furlough. He was back in a Richmond hospital in February 1863. He returned to duty that Spring but was absent again on furlough in February 1864 and, later, absent without leave to August. He was captured in action at Darbytown Road near Richmond, VA on 7 October 1864 and held at Bermuda Hundred, VA. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 22 October, and was released to "go to Jackson County, Indiana."

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Courtland in Jackson County, IN but in 1900 was farming at Maplesville in Chilton County, AL. In 1910, by then retired, and to at least 1920 he lived with his daughter Mary F (Wallace) and her family in Maplesville.

His service from the State of Alabama,1 who have him married and age 26 at enlistment, and from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ohio-born Sarah Elizabeth Donaker (1846-1907) about 1865 and they had 6 children, all born in Indiana.

12/05/1841; Bibb County, AL

01/10/1920; Lawley, AL; burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Maplesville, AL