JOSEPH WARREN LAWLESS
Joseph Warren Lawless, b September 25, 1842 in Troup County, Georgia, d
January 6, 1906 and buried in Clover Hill Cemetery at Lott -
was the seventh of eight children of John Lawless, b ca 1807, d ca 1845,
and his wife, Catherine, b ca 1812
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both natives of
Georgia. The children of John and
Catherine Lawless were: John Lawless, Jr., b 1829; Nancy Lawless, b 1831; James
Lawless, b 1834; Sylvester Lawless, b 1836; Lucius Lawless, b 1838; Henry
Lawless, b 1840; Joseph Warren Lawless, b 1842; and Shada Lawless, b 1844. Since
the family lived in Georgia - the state that suffered such terrible depredation
during the Civil War, the Lawless young men would have served in the Confederate
States Army.
Joseph Warren Lawless came to Texas after the Civil War, and is said to
have settled in the Bryan area, and had issue; but after his wife's death, he
moved to the Lott area of Falls County, where he was married second in 1892 to
Mrs. Mary Ann (Pierson) Atkins, b August 2, 1858 in Texas, d February 12, 1942
and buried in Clover Hill Cemetery at Lott - a daughter of William Montgomery
and Matilda (Smith) Pierson, natives of the state of Coahuila (Texas) and
Mississippi, respectively. Mary Ann's grandparents were John Goodloe Warren and
Elizabeth (Montgomery) Pierson, who came to Texas before 1828; and was the widow
of Napoleon Atkins, by whom she had a daughter, Susan Atkins, b October 1883,
when she was married to Joseph Warren Lawless. Susan Atkins married John F.
Priest - a son of Dr. James D. and Mary (Parks) Priest.
Joseph Warren and Mary Ann (Pierson) Lawless were parents of three
children:
Frank Lucius Lawless, b September 25,
1893, d July 1, 1950 at Lott, Texas - was a Private, 343 F.A. 90, during World
War I. He married Minnie William- son, b January 6, 1899 - a daughter of Daniel
Williamson, b 1857 in Alabama, d 1944 in Lott, who was a son of John and
Margaret (Jay-McPherson) Williamson, and his wife, Margaret Elizabeth
(Bouchillon) Williamson, b 1867, d 1956 at Lott - a daughter of Francis Sullivan
and Jane Mahalia (Morrow) Bouchillon. Daniel was reared with his McPherson
half-brothers and sisters. He and Margaret Elizabeth Bouchillon had married in
Falls County, Texas. Frank and Minnie had a son, Ralph Warren Lawless, who
married Peggy Bunn, and they have Frank and Larry Lawless, b in Marlin.
Bessie Lawless, b 1894 in Lott, Texas-no further information.
Billie Lawless, b July 11, 1896 in Lott, Texas, d July 12, 1962 in Lott -
married June 13, 1930 to Homer Lee Chapman, b May 11, 1894, d May 10, 1973.
Homer served in the U.S. Army as a Sergeant, during World War I.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of
these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 279 column 1 and 2 and page 280 column 1.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.