William Henry Lawson

In 1860 he was an unmarried 15 year old farmer living with his parents and 6 siblings at Rockford, Coosa County, AL. He enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Montgomery, AL and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Corporal on 1 April 1863 and was with his unit in all their battles to the end of the war.

In 1880 he was a commercial broker in Montgomery, AL but by 1900 and to at least 1920, then age 74, he was a farmer in Montgomery County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880-1920, and the 1907 Alabama Census of Confederate Veterans. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ellen Ready (1850-c.1883) in November 1871 and they had 4 children. He married again, Virginia Lee Steagall (1869-1952) in March 1886, and they had as many as 10 more.

05/12/1845; Chambers County, AL

08/20/1923; Montgomery, AL; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, AL