Married Eliza Johns 18 Feb 1874, Blacklick Station. Served in the Civil War - Cpl Co. B, 56 Inf Regt. Pennsylvania Vol. Was captured and taken to Libby Prison and Andersonville.
Source: Civil War Pension File 1885 Feb 16 - Invalid 532520, 392533
1923 May Widow: 1205806, 937075 Pa. (Eliza Lawson)]
Andersonville Prisoner Profile
Code No: 40799
Grave No: NOT BURIED AT ANDERSONVILLE
Last Name: LAWSON
First Name: JOHNSTON
Rank: CORPORAL
Company: B
Regiment: 56
State: PA
Branch of Service: INFANTRY
Remarks: ANDERSONVILLE SURVIVOR; STILL LIVING IN 1902
Reference*: p 82 [12];p228[8]
Obituary:
Seward, April 21. - The funeral services of the late Johnstown Lawson, aged 78 years, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alice Kane, of this place, of a complication of diseases due to old age, will be held at the Kane residence Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with burial, in the Armagh Cemetery. Mr. Lawson was a Civil War veteran, having enlisted in Company B., Fifty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was born in Indiana County on May 4, 1845. The deceased is survived by one brother, Jacob Lawson, a retired railroad engineer, and the following children: Robert, of Indiana; Norman, of Homestead; Mrs. Alice Kane, of this place; and Raymond, of North Side, Pittsburg.
Johnstown Tribune
21 April 1923
Source: Civil War Pension File 1885 Feb 16 - Invalid 532520, 392533
1923 May Widow: 1205806, 937075 Pa. (Eliza Lawson)]
Andersonville Prisoner Profile
Code No: 40799
Grave No: NOT BURIED AT ANDERSONVILLE
Last Name: LAWSON
First Name: JOHNSTON
Rank: CORPORAL
Company: B
Regiment: 56
State: PA
Branch of Service: INFANTRY
Remarks: ANDERSONVILLE SURVIVOR; STILL LIVING IN 1902
Reference*: p 82 [12];p228[8]
Obituary:
Seward, April 21. - The funeral services of the late Johnstown Lawson, aged 78 years, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alice Kane, of this place, of a complication of diseases due to old age, will be held at the Kane residence Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with burial, in the Armagh Cemetery. Mr. Lawson was a Civil War veteran, having enlisted in Company B., Fifty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was born in Indiana County on May 4, 1845. The deceased is survived by one brother, Jacob Lawson, a retired railroad engineer, and the following children: Robert, of Indiana; Norman, of Homestead; Mrs. Alice Kane, of this place; and Raymond, of North Side, Pittsburg.
Johnstown Tribune
21 April 1923
Married Eliza Johns 18 Feb 1874, Blacklick Station. Served in the Civil War - Cpl Co. B, 56 Inf Regt. Pennsylvania Vol. Was captured and taken to Libby Prison and Andersonville.
Source: Civil War Pension File 1885 Feb 16 - Invalid 532520, 392533
1923 May Widow: 1205806, 937075 Pa. (Eliza Lawson)]
Andersonville Prisoner Profile
Code No: 40799
Grave No: NOT BURIED AT ANDERSONVILLE
Last Name: LAWSON
First Name: JOHNSTON
Rank: CORPORAL
Company: B
Regiment: 56
State: PA
Branch of Service: INFANTRY
Remarks: ANDERSONVILLE SURVIVOR; STILL LIVING IN 1902
Reference*: p 82 [12];p228[8]
Obituary:
Seward, April 21. - The funeral services of the late Johnstown Lawson, aged 78 years, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alice Kane, of this place, of a complication of diseases due to old age, will be held at the Kane residence Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with burial, in the Armagh Cemetery. Mr. Lawson was a Civil War veteran, having enlisted in Company B., Fifty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was born in Indiana County on May 4, 1845. The deceased is survived by one brother, Jacob Lawson, a retired railroad engineer, and the following children: Robert, of Indiana; Norman, of Homestead; Mrs. Alice Kane, of this place; and Raymond, of North Side, Pittsburg.
Johnstown Tribune
21 April 1923
Source: Civil War Pension File 1885 Feb 16 - Invalid 532520, 392533
1923 May Widow: 1205806, 937075 Pa. (Eliza Lawson)]
Andersonville Prisoner Profile
Code No: 40799
Grave No: NOT BURIED AT ANDERSONVILLE
Last Name: LAWSON
First Name: JOHNSTON
Rank: CORPORAL
Company: B
Regiment: 56
State: PA
Branch of Service: INFANTRY
Remarks: ANDERSONVILLE SURVIVOR; STILL LIVING IN 1902
Reference*: p 82 [12];p228[8]
Obituary:
Seward, April 21. - The funeral services of the late Johnstown Lawson, aged 78 years, who died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alice Kane, of this place, of a complication of diseases due to old age, will be held at the Kane residence Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with burial, in the Armagh Cemetery. Mr. Lawson was a Civil War veteran, having enlisted in Company B., Fifty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was born in Indiana County on May 4, 1845. The deceased is survived by one brother, Jacob Lawson, a retired railroad engineer, and the following children: Robert, of Indiana; Norman, of Homestead; Mrs. Alice Kane, of this place; and Raymond, of North Side, Pittsburg.
Johnstown Tribune
21 April 1923
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