He was 9.5 when his mother died and had just turned 10 the month before his Aunt Jane became his stepmom in 1894.
At the time of Lawrence's first marriage (1909), and this is borne out by the 1900 Census, he lived in Spurgeon, just north of his parents who were in Hart Township, Warrick Co, near Pike Co. (literally 3 miles up CR 150 E). His father died the following year and he was the informant on his 1910 death certificate. I’ve found no other records for his first wife, Mary Emily, but she’s out of the picture by late 1916.
Lawrence's WWI Draft Card lists his residence as 1305 Bayou (corner of 13th & Bayou streets) in Vincennes with 2nd wife, Edna, a Lawrence Co, IL, native. His occupation is laborer at Emison Flour Mill (A note on the mill—Emison’s Mill was located nine miles north of town on Maria Creek in the countryside until brother-partners James & Scott Emison moved it to Vincennes in 1879. They built the steam-powered Atlas Mills for flour on the northwest corner of First and Busseron streets, which Scott operated there until 1919 when he sold it. The Stout Bros. bought Atlas and also opened Zenith Mills in Princeton by 1922).
He was a weigher at the mill on the 1920 census, probably employed by the new owners, the Stout Bros. He, Edna and baby Eugene are living at 1305 Bayou St., in a house they rent with Ross W & Bertha Allison, who I believe is Edna's sister. Nothing changes in 1930, except three children have been born and Eugene has died. Ross and Bertha have no children.
By the 1940 U.S. Census, Lawrence now owns the house at 1305 Bayou, worth $1800, but the Allisons still live there. The Hussey children are teenagers and Lawrence is now a packer at a corn mill (Baltic). Brother-in-law, Ross, is a stacker at a packing plant. Lawrence’s WWII Draft Card says he is now employed at Baltic Mills, the corn mill built by the Emisons at the southwest corner of First and Vigo and sold in 1924. It was relocated to 11th & Dubois St. (two blocks north and two blocks east of their home, along the old rail line that ran just south of the original Fairview Cemetery, RR crossing at 12th & Prairie) and then destroyed by fire in May 1943, not sure who owned it. Originally, both mills the Emison brothers built sat near the river, on either side of the Main St. Bridge—one on Vigo St. (where the bridge crosses the river now) and one on Busseron St. two blocks to the east.
By age 65, he was retired from the mill and doing sheet metal work on his own accord. That's when he suffered a fatal accident, falling through the rafters of an attic over a private garage (816 ? St, the address on the death certificate is illegible) and striking his head. He died within 20 minutes of a skull fracture and was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes. He had remained at 1305 Bayou most of his life, Edna surviving him at that address.
At the time of Lawrence's first marriage (1909), and this is borne out by the 1900 Census, he lived in Spurgeon, just north of his parents who were in Hart Township, Warrick Co, near Pike Co. (literally 3 miles up CR 150 E). His father died the following year and he was the informant on his 1910 death certificate. I’ve found no other records for his first wife, Mary Emily, but she’s out of the picture by late 1916.
Lawrence's WWI Draft Card lists his residence as 1305 Bayou (corner of 13th & Bayou streets) in Vincennes with 2nd wife, Edna, a Lawrence Co, IL, native. His occupation is laborer at Emison Flour Mill (A note on the mill—Emison’s Mill was located nine miles north of town on Maria Creek in the countryside until brother-partners James & Scott Emison moved it to Vincennes in 1879. They built the steam-powered Atlas Mills for flour on the northwest corner of First and Busseron streets, which Scott operated there until 1919 when he sold it. The Stout Bros. bought Atlas and also opened Zenith Mills in Princeton by 1922).
He was a weigher at the mill on the 1920 census, probably employed by the new owners, the Stout Bros. He, Edna and baby Eugene are living at 1305 Bayou St., in a house they rent with Ross W & Bertha Allison, who I believe is Edna's sister. Nothing changes in 1930, except three children have been born and Eugene has died. Ross and Bertha have no children.
By the 1940 U.S. Census, Lawrence now owns the house at 1305 Bayou, worth $1800, but the Allisons still live there. The Hussey children are teenagers and Lawrence is now a packer at a corn mill (Baltic). Brother-in-law, Ross, is a stacker at a packing plant. Lawrence’s WWII Draft Card says he is now employed at Baltic Mills, the corn mill built by the Emisons at the southwest corner of First and Vigo and sold in 1924. It was relocated to 11th & Dubois St. (two blocks north and two blocks east of their home, along the old rail line that ran just south of the original Fairview Cemetery, RR crossing at 12th & Prairie) and then destroyed by fire in May 1943, not sure who owned it. Originally, both mills the Emison brothers built sat near the river, on either side of the Main St. Bridge—one on Vigo St. (where the bridge crosses the river now) and one on Busseron St. two blocks to the east.
By age 65, he was retired from the mill and doing sheet metal work on his own accord. That's when he suffered a fatal accident, falling through the rafters of an attic over a private garage (816 ? St, the address on the death certificate is illegible) and striking his head. He died within 20 minutes of a skull fracture and was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes. He had remained at 1305 Bayou most of his life, Edna surviving him at that address.
He was 9.5 when his mother died and had just turned 10 the month before his Aunt Jane became his stepmom in 1894.
At the time of Lawrence's first marriage (1909), and this is borne out by the 1900 Census, he lived in Spurgeon, just north of his parents who were in Hart Township, Warrick Co, near Pike Co. (literally 3 miles up CR 150 E). His father died the following year and he was the informant on his 1910 death certificate. I’ve found no other records for his first wife, Mary Emily, but she’s out of the picture by late 1916.
Lawrence's WWI Draft Card lists his residence as 1305 Bayou (corner of 13th & Bayou streets) in Vincennes with 2nd wife, Edna, a Lawrence Co, IL, native. His occupation is laborer at Emison Flour Mill (A note on the mill—Emison’s Mill was located nine miles north of town on Maria Creek in the countryside until brother-partners James & Scott Emison moved it to Vincennes in 1879. They built the steam-powered Atlas Mills for flour on the northwest corner of First and Busseron streets, which Scott operated there until 1919 when he sold it. The Stout Bros. bought Atlas and also opened Zenith Mills in Princeton by 1922).
He was a weigher at the mill on the 1920 census, probably employed by the new owners, the Stout Bros. He, Edna and baby Eugene are living at 1305 Bayou St., in a house they rent with Ross W & Bertha Allison, who I believe is Edna's sister. Nothing changes in 1930, except three children have been born and Eugene has died. Ross and Bertha have no children.
By the 1940 U.S. Census, Lawrence now owns the house at 1305 Bayou, worth $1800, but the Allisons still live there. The Hussey children are teenagers and Lawrence is now a packer at a corn mill (Baltic). Brother-in-law, Ross, is a stacker at a packing plant. Lawrence’s WWII Draft Card says he is now employed at Baltic Mills, the corn mill built by the Emisons at the southwest corner of First and Vigo and sold in 1924. It was relocated to 11th & Dubois St. (two blocks north and two blocks east of their home, along the old rail line that ran just south of the original Fairview Cemetery, RR crossing at 12th & Prairie) and then destroyed by fire in May 1943, not sure who owned it. Originally, both mills the Emison brothers built sat near the river, on either side of the Main St. Bridge—one on Vigo St. (where the bridge crosses the river now) and one on Busseron St. two blocks to the east.
By age 65, he was retired from the mill and doing sheet metal work on his own accord. That's when he suffered a fatal accident, falling through the rafters of an attic over a private garage (816 ? St, the address on the death certificate is illegible) and striking his head. He died within 20 minutes of a skull fracture and was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes. He had remained at 1305 Bayou most of his life, Edna surviving him at that address.
At the time of Lawrence's first marriage (1909), and this is borne out by the 1900 Census, he lived in Spurgeon, just north of his parents who were in Hart Township, Warrick Co, near Pike Co. (literally 3 miles up CR 150 E). His father died the following year and he was the informant on his 1910 death certificate. I’ve found no other records for his first wife, Mary Emily, but she’s out of the picture by late 1916.
Lawrence's WWI Draft Card lists his residence as 1305 Bayou (corner of 13th & Bayou streets) in Vincennes with 2nd wife, Edna, a Lawrence Co, IL, native. His occupation is laborer at Emison Flour Mill (A note on the mill—Emison’s Mill was located nine miles north of town on Maria Creek in the countryside until brother-partners James & Scott Emison moved it to Vincennes in 1879. They built the steam-powered Atlas Mills for flour on the northwest corner of First and Busseron streets, which Scott operated there until 1919 when he sold it. The Stout Bros. bought Atlas and also opened Zenith Mills in Princeton by 1922).
He was a weigher at the mill on the 1920 census, probably employed by the new owners, the Stout Bros. He, Edna and baby Eugene are living at 1305 Bayou St., in a house they rent with Ross W & Bertha Allison, who I believe is Edna's sister. Nothing changes in 1930, except three children have been born and Eugene has died. Ross and Bertha have no children.
By the 1940 U.S. Census, Lawrence now owns the house at 1305 Bayou, worth $1800, but the Allisons still live there. The Hussey children are teenagers and Lawrence is now a packer at a corn mill (Baltic). Brother-in-law, Ross, is a stacker at a packing plant. Lawrence’s WWII Draft Card says he is now employed at Baltic Mills, the corn mill built by the Emisons at the southwest corner of First and Vigo and sold in 1924. It was relocated to 11th & Dubois St. (two blocks north and two blocks east of their home, along the old rail line that ran just south of the original Fairview Cemetery, RR crossing at 12th & Prairie) and then destroyed by fire in May 1943, not sure who owned it. Originally, both mills the Emison brothers built sat near the river, on either side of the Main St. Bridge—one on Vigo St. (where the bridge crosses the river now) and one on Busseron St. two blocks to the east.
By age 65, he was retired from the mill and doing sheet metal work on his own accord. That's when he suffered a fatal accident, falling through the rafters of an attic over a private garage (816 ? St, the address on the death certificate is illegible) and striking his head. He died within 20 minutes of a skull fracture and was pronounced dead at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes. He had remained at 1305 Bayou most of his life, Edna surviving him at that address.
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