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Lawson Mackell Grice

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Lawson Mackell Grice

Birth
Rutherford County, North Carolina, USA
Death
20 Sep 1914 (aged 82)
Texas County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Sentinel, Washita County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
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L.M. Grice was the son of Adin MacKell Keeter, and Frances Grice. LM was raised by Frances and his stepfather, Thomas Justice, in Rutherford, NC. He married Mary or Sarah Jane Banther September 30, 1856 in Rutherford Co., North Carolina.
He was enlisted in the Civil War, though he did not hold with slavery: Co B, 35th Inf Regt, McDowell Co., NC CSA. Home after the war, they moved to Georgia and settled on land adjacent to his father and his half siblings where they could visit back and forth.
They attended Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, and traded visits with Jane's brother M.M. Banther and family who lived just over the line in Pickens County. L.M. was on the school board of the Coosawattee District. L.M. along with two other men were the founding trustees of another Baptist Church to the North of them, where the family attended until 1903 when they decided with the kids now grown, to move just the two of them to Port, Washita Co, Oklahoma where some of their sons were living.
After Jane died there in 1904, L.M. followed the sons to the Panhandle and became a homesteader, living on, proving up, and earning his 160 acres after 4 years of labor and improvements. He died in 1914. A Pioneer in every sense.
He left a footprint that pointed to the cross, a legacy of loving God, a memory in his children of them singing together "Where the Soul of Man Never Dies." Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
L.M. Grice was the son of Adin MacKell Keeter, and Frances Grice. LM was raised by Frances and his stepfather, Thomas Justice, in Rutherford, NC. He married Mary or Sarah Jane Banther September 30, 1856 in Rutherford Co., North Carolina.
He was enlisted in the Civil War, though he did not hold with slavery: Co B, 35th Inf Regt, McDowell Co., NC CSA. Home after the war, they moved to Georgia and settled on land adjacent to his father and his half siblings where they could visit back and forth.
They attended Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, and traded visits with Jane's brother M.M. Banther and family who lived just over the line in Pickens County. L.M. was on the school board of the Coosawattee District. L.M. along with two other men were the founding trustees of another Baptist Church to the North of them, where the family attended until 1903 when they decided with the kids now grown, to move just the two of them to Port, Washita Co, Oklahoma where some of their sons were living.
After Jane died there in 1904, L.M. followed the sons to the Panhandle and became a homesteader, living on, proving up, and earning his 160 acres after 4 years of labor and improvements. He died in 1914. A Pioneer in every sense.
He left a footprint that pointed to the cross, a legacy of loving God, a memory in his children of them singing together "Where the Soul of Man Never Dies." Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

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