John Lawrence was a native of Onondaga County, where he was reared to agricultural pursuits. When a young man, he migrated to Livingston County, and, purchasing a tract of timbered land, reared a “shake” cabin as his first domicile in this county, its location being in Sparta, where he lived for several years before becoming a resident of Springwater, where the last days of his busy life were passed.
He married Mary Thiel, a New Jersey girl; and she bore him eleven children, namely: James, Loren, Ira, Charles, Elijah, David, Clarissa (deceased), George, Eliza, Mary and Henry (deceased).
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