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Thomas Holbrook Lawrence

Birth
Corning, Adams County, Iowa, USA
Death
29 Mar 1937 (aged 71)
Compton, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Westminster, Orange County, California, USA Add to Map
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Thomas Holbrook Lawrence died very suddenly at the home of his brother, John L. Lawrence of 112 E. Cedar Street, Compton, California on Monday March 29, 1937 at 6:45 a.m. He arrived from Atlanta, Georgia Sunday evening about 4 p.m.
Thomas H. Lawrence, son of Clark and Sarah R. Lawrence was born near Corning, Iowa, September 8, 1865, was aged 71 years, 6 months, and 21 days. He was reared 4 miles west of Corning and left there in 1895 for Los Gatos, California, and was married there to Jennie Logan, to which to this union two children were born, Irene and Clark. His wife died in January 1906 at the birth of a son. Most of his life was spent on the Pacific Coast except at intervals spent in Montana and Iowa.
Funeral services were held Thursday April 1st at Dixon Chapel at Hamilton Beach California, services were in charge of Christian minister, Rev. Hearst, officiating. Interment was in Westminister Cemetery at Huntington Beach, California. He leaves to mourn his departure, his daughter, Mrs. Rev. A. E. Worthy of Van Nuys, California, brother John of Compton, also brother Frank of Forsyth, Montana, and three grandchildren besides a host of friends and other relatives.
Adams County Free Press, April 8, 1937, page 2
Thomas Holbrook Lawrence died very suddenly at the home of his brother, John L. Lawrence of 112 E. Cedar Street, Compton, California on Monday March 29, 1937 at 6:45 a.m. He arrived from Atlanta, Georgia Sunday evening about 4 p.m.
Thomas H. Lawrence, son of Clark and Sarah R. Lawrence was born near Corning, Iowa, September 8, 1865, was aged 71 years, 6 months, and 21 days. He was reared 4 miles west of Corning and left there in 1895 for Los Gatos, California, and was married there to Jennie Logan, to which to this union two children were born, Irene and Clark. His wife died in January 1906 at the birth of a son. Most of his life was spent on the Pacific Coast except at intervals spent in Montana and Iowa.
Funeral services were held Thursday April 1st at Dixon Chapel at Hamilton Beach California, services were in charge of Christian minister, Rev. Hearst, officiating. Interment was in Westminister Cemetery at Huntington Beach, California. He leaves to mourn his departure, his daughter, Mrs. Rev. A. E. Worthy of Van Nuys, California, brother John of Compton, also brother Frank of Forsyth, Montana, and three grandchildren besides a host of friends and other relatives.
Adams County Free Press, April 8, 1937, page 2


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