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Lawrence Berry Washington

Birth
Jefferson County, West Virginia, USA
Death
21 Sep 1856 (aged 44)
Rocheport, Boone County, Missouri, USA
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Following his service in the Mexican-American War, Lawrence Washington joined the Charles Town Mining Company and travelled to California in 1849 as a participant in the California Gold Rush withis brother Benjamin Franklin Washington, but there are no existing records of Washington finding gold during his pursuit. While in California, Washington authored the novel, "A Tale to be Told Some Fifty
Years Hence" Lawrence then moved east to Missouri in the 1850's where he remained for a few years and fought as a Border Ruffian during the bleeding Kansas confrontations over slavery along the border between Kansas Territory and Missouri. While in Missouri, Washington wrote poetry and contributed to local newspapers. Lawrence returned to Virginia later in the 1850's, and then again moved to Missouri in 1856, Washington died by drowning after falling overboard from a steamboat on the Missouri River near
Rocheport in Boone County, Missouri on the night of September 21, 1856.
Following his service in the Mexican-American War, Lawrence Washington joined the Charles Town Mining Company and travelled to California in 1849 as a participant in the California Gold Rush withis brother Benjamin Franklin Washington, but there are no existing records of Washington finding gold during his pursuit. While in California, Washington authored the novel, "A Tale to be Told Some Fifty
Years Hence" Lawrence then moved east to Missouri in the 1850's where he remained for a few years and fought as a Border Ruffian during the bleeding Kansas confrontations over slavery along the border between Kansas Territory and Missouri. While in Missouri, Washington wrote poetry and contributed to local newspapers. Lawrence returned to Virginia later in the 1850's, and then again moved to Missouri in 1856, Washington died by drowning after falling overboard from a steamboat on the Missouri River near
Rocheport in Boone County, Missouri on the night of September 21, 1856.

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