The Lawrence surname

In the chronology 9 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Lawrence, Alfred 3 entries, 1921–1925
  • 1921: Alfred Lawrence becomes rector of the Chapel of the Cross
  • 1921: Under rector Alfred Lawrence, the Chapel of the Cross asks Hobart Upjohn to design a new church
  • May 12, 1925: The new Chapel of the Cross church is consecrated
• Lawrence, Alfred S. 4 entries, 1934–1942
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  • October 28, 1934: Botanist William C. Coker marries Louise Venable
  • March 25, 1940: Good-roads advocate Harriet Morehead Berry is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
  • June 14, 1941: George McKie, University teacher of public speaking for 42 years, dies
  • June 4, 1942: Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt, first chairman of the Chapel Hill Planning Board, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Lawrence, Alfred Stratton 23 entries, 1912–1958
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• Lawrence, Ann Eliza 1 entry, 1886
  • November 11 or 12, 1886: A jury acquits Ann Eliza Lawrence and John Crawford of poisoning her husband
• Lawrence, B. J. 1 entry, 1938
  • by December 9, 1938: A state commission recommends a four-year medical school, its majority favoring Chapel Hill
• Lawrence, David 1 entry, 1930
  • January 15-17, 1930: The North Carolina Press Association holds its sixth newspaper institute at Chapel Hill
• Lawrence, George 10 entries, 1924–1942
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  • 1924–1941: The county home for the aged and infirm, 1924–1941
  • October 26, 1928: George Lawrence describes the county home near Efland in the Chapel Hill Weekly
  • late August 1929: Chapel Hill's American Legion post wins three state trophies
  • July 4, 1930: The Carrboro Boys' Band plays a Fourth of July concert
  • by April 3, 1931: Chapel Hill sends door-to-door beggars to the Town Hall for King's Daughters screening
  • by September 30, 1932: Methodists lend their old church to the Central Welfare Committee for relief work
  • March 26, 1932: Orange County Republicans meet in Hillsboro and endorse Hoover
  • November 1938: Louis Graves organizes the Ada Edwards League to rebuild a Black widow's burned farmhouse
  • June 30, 1942: Chapel Hill registers 577 men aged 18 to 20 for the draft
  • April 27, 1942: Orange County registers 1,889 men aged 45 to 65 for selective service
• Lawrence, George H. 85 entries, 1919–1942
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• Lawrence, George H. 6 entries, 1928–1947
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  • 1928–1942: Durham Hosiery's Carrboro mills through the Depression and after, 1928–1942
  • December 10, 1938: Chapel Hill and Carrboro leaders meet to find work for the jobless Carrboro mill hands
  • Summer 1945: The State Eugenics Board begins a county-wide study of mental illness and disability in Orange County
  • As of August 1945: The eugenics study counts Orange County draft rejections on mental grounds
  • 1945-46: The eugenics study gives group intelligence tests to Orange County elementary pupils
  • January 1947: Eugenics Board field secretary George H. Lawrence publishes the Orange County sterilization study

In books and archives 1 heading

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Lawrence, Alfred S. (Alfred Stratton), 1882-1958 1 work

In the historical records 10 records

6 deeds, 1 marriages and 3 court minutes, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Lawrence marriages in full · Search the name in every collection