Melvin Lawrence
April 4, 1871 - October 15, 1955
Melvin
Lawrence was the youngest son of Horace A. and Lorinda (nee Windsor) Lawrence.
Lorinda was the first wife of Horace Lawrence; she died in 1875.
Afterwards,
Horace married Edna Smithers.
Lorinda was also a younger sister to Sophronia (nee Windsor) Bassett,
whose first husband was Harvey Lawrence, a brother to Jesse Lawrence (Melvin’s
grandfather). Melvin Lawrence was a half-sibling to other people buried in the
York Center Cemetery, including: Lois Vandeberg,
Orin Lawrence, Roy
Lawrence,
Floy Huntley, Earl Lawrence, Olive
Campbell, Carrie Lawrence, and Horace
H. Lawrence. In addition, he
was a sibling to Ida Turner, Lillian
Vandeberg, and Melvin Lawrence, who are
also buried in York Center Cemetery. Another
sibling of Melvin's was George Lawrence, who is interred at Tacoma, Washington.
Melvin Lawrence married the former Bertha
Gardner.
He bought the York Center General Store from William E.
Benedict, a great
nephew of Melvin’s grandmother, Almeda (nee Benedict) Lawrence and the son of
his mother’s niece, Margaret (nee Lawrence)
Benedict.
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