Wallace A. Lawton died at his home Apr. 10, 1926. He had been in failing health for some time and received treatment at Wales sanitorium. He has had the careful and helpful care from Mrs. Lawton and his children but it failed to arrest the slow advance of tuberculosis. Mr. Lawton was one of the prominent citizens of the city and county, having served in various public offices, including county clerk and a member of the city school board. He was a member of the local Methodist Episcopal Church and served in many capacities there including superintendent of the Sunday School. He was a man of quiet, refined, Christian character and his long illness and death have come with universal regret to the community.
Wallace A. Lawton was born Sept. 26, 1858, on the old Lawton homestead near Viola. In 1880 he was married to Lizzie B. Reed, of Twin Bluffs. They moved to Winona, MN, in 1883, where for eleven years he worked in the office of the Winona Wagon Company. Owing to severe headaches, he was compelled a to give up office work and in 1894 he purchased and moved to a ridge farm two miles south of Twin Bluffs. Here Mrs. Lawton died on Nov. 29, 1911.
Mr. Lawton served as clerk of the town of Orion for many years. He was elected county clerk in 1912 and served the county in that capacity for six years. He was married to Pearl Blake May 26, 1914 and has since resided in Richland Center, with the exception of time spent in Madison as stenographer and journal clerk in the Wisconsin legislature during the sessions of 1919 to 1923. His keen insight and calm judgment of conditions, events and human nature, won him the respect and esteem of all. His kindness and patience were noteworthy.
He leaves five children by his first marriage; Rev. Burke Lawton of Springfield, CO, Mrs. Georgia Ghastin of Sextonville, Leslie L. Lawton and Mrs. Helen Breeden of Richland Center, and Mrs. Dorothy Nelson of Racine; by his second marriage, a son, Raymond, now 8 years old; seven grandchildren; his aged mother, Mrs. Melissa A. (Southworth) Lawton of Viola, who is 95 years old, one sister, Mrs. May Huffman of Rockbridge and one brother, Walden Lawton of Viola.
Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon from the Methodist Church and interment was at Sextonville, the Rev. John Birrell conducted the services.
Wallace A. Lawton was born Sept. 26, 1858, on the old Lawton homestead near Viola. In 1880 he was married to Lizzie B. Reed, of Twin Bluffs. They moved to Winona, MN, in 1883, where for eleven years he worked in the office of the Winona Wagon Company. Owing to severe headaches, he was compelled a to give up office work and in 1894 he purchased and moved to a ridge farm two miles south of Twin Bluffs. Here Mrs. Lawton died on Nov. 29, 1911.
Mr. Lawton served as clerk of the town of Orion for many years. He was elected county clerk in 1912 and served the county in that capacity for six years. He was married to Pearl Blake May 26, 1914 and has since resided in Richland Center, with the exception of time spent in Madison as stenographer and journal clerk in the Wisconsin legislature during the sessions of 1919 to 1923. His keen insight and calm judgment of conditions, events and human nature, won him the respect and esteem of all. His kindness and patience were noteworthy.
He leaves five children by his first marriage; Rev. Burke Lawton of Springfield, CO, Mrs. Georgia Ghastin of Sextonville, Leslie L. Lawton and Mrs. Helen Breeden of Richland Center, and Mrs. Dorothy Nelson of Racine; by his second marriage, a son, Raymond, now 8 years old; seven grandchildren; his aged mother, Mrs. Melissa A. (Southworth) Lawton of Viola, who is 95 years old, one sister, Mrs. May Huffman of Rockbridge and one brother, Walden Lawton of Viola.
Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon from the Methodist Church and interment was at Sextonville, the Rev. John Birrell conducted the services.
Wallace A. Lawton died at his home Apr. 10, 1926. He had been in failing health for some time and received treatment at Wales sanitorium. He has had the careful and helpful care from Mrs. Lawton and his children but it failed to arrest the slow advance of tuberculosis. Mr. Lawton was one of the prominent citizens of the city and county, having served in various public offices, including county clerk and a member of the city school board. He was a member of the local Methodist Episcopal Church and served in many capacities there including superintendent of the Sunday School. He was a man of quiet, refined, Christian character and his long illness and death have come with universal regret to the community.
Wallace A. Lawton was born Sept. 26, 1858, on the old Lawton homestead near Viola. In 1880 he was married to Lizzie B. Reed, of Twin Bluffs. They moved to Winona, MN, in 1883, where for eleven years he worked in the office of the Winona Wagon Company. Owing to severe headaches, he was compelled a to give up office work and in 1894 he purchased and moved to a ridge farm two miles south of Twin Bluffs. Here Mrs. Lawton died on Nov. 29, 1911.
Mr. Lawton served as clerk of the town of Orion for many years. He was elected county clerk in 1912 and served the county in that capacity for six years. He was married to Pearl Blake May 26, 1914 and has since resided in Richland Center, with the exception of time spent in Madison as stenographer and journal clerk in the Wisconsin legislature during the sessions of 1919 to 1923. His keen insight and calm judgment of conditions, events and human nature, won him the respect and esteem of all. His kindness and patience were noteworthy.
He leaves five children by his first marriage; Rev. Burke Lawton of Springfield, CO, Mrs. Georgia Ghastin of Sextonville, Leslie L. Lawton and Mrs. Helen Breeden of Richland Center, and Mrs. Dorothy Nelson of Racine; by his second marriage, a son, Raymond, now 8 years old; seven grandchildren; his aged mother, Mrs. Melissa A. (Southworth) Lawton of Viola, who is 95 years old, one sister, Mrs. May Huffman of Rockbridge and one brother, Walden Lawton of Viola.
Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon from the Methodist Church and interment was at Sextonville, the Rev. John Birrell conducted the services.
Wallace A. Lawton was born Sept. 26, 1858, on the old Lawton homestead near Viola. In 1880 he was married to Lizzie B. Reed, of Twin Bluffs. They moved to Winona, MN, in 1883, where for eleven years he worked in the office of the Winona Wagon Company. Owing to severe headaches, he was compelled a to give up office work and in 1894 he purchased and moved to a ridge farm two miles south of Twin Bluffs. Here Mrs. Lawton died on Nov. 29, 1911.
Mr. Lawton served as clerk of the town of Orion for many years. He was elected county clerk in 1912 and served the county in that capacity for six years. He was married to Pearl Blake May 26, 1914 and has since resided in Richland Center, with the exception of time spent in Madison as stenographer and journal clerk in the Wisconsin legislature during the sessions of 1919 to 1923. His keen insight and calm judgment of conditions, events and human nature, won him the respect and esteem of all. His kindness and patience were noteworthy.
He leaves five children by his first marriage; Rev. Burke Lawton of Springfield, CO, Mrs. Georgia Ghastin of Sextonville, Leslie L. Lawton and Mrs. Helen Breeden of Richland Center, and Mrs. Dorothy Nelson of Racine; by his second marriage, a son, Raymond, now 8 years old; seven grandchildren; his aged mother, Mrs. Melissa A. (Southworth) Lawton of Viola, who is 95 years old, one sister, Mrs. May Huffman of Rockbridge and one brother, Walden Lawton of Viola.
Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon from the Methodist Church and interment was at Sextonville, the Rev. John Birrell conducted the services.
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