David N. SLAWSON

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• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Township 24, Ward 1, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, Living with the Richard Cross family in Montgomery Co., Alabama
• Census: 1880, Living in Mundine, St. Clair Co., Alabama

David married Elizabeth MIDDLEBROOKS on 30 Dec 1868 in Alabama. Elizabeth was born on 17 Jan 1845 in Georgia; died on 29 Mar 1913 in Elamville, Barbour Co., Alabama; was buried in Holmes Baptist Church Cemetery, Barbour Co., Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Burton SLAWSON was born on 19 Nov 1866 in Alabama; died on 15 Jul 1954; was buried in Enterprise City Cemetery, Enterprise, Coffee Co., Alabama.
2. Martha SLAWSON was born on 21 Feb 1872 in Alabama; died on 26 Sep 1909; was buried in Adams Chapel Cemetery, Texasville, Barbour Co., Alabama.
3. Dellah E. SLAWSON was born on 6 Aug 1874 in Alabama; died on 6 Jul 1919; was buried in Holmes Baptist Church Cemetery, Barbour Co., Alabama.
4. Zere Elijah Ashbury SLAWSON was born on 8 Oct 1877 in Alabaster, Alabama; died on 2 May 1941 in Andalusia, Covington Co., Alabama; was buried in Pigeon Creek Baptist Church Memorial Cemetery, Red Level, Covington Co., Alabama.
5. Dolphus N. SLAWSON was born on 8 Mar 1880 in Alabama; died on 1 Mar 1884; was buried in Wrights Chapel Cemetery, Henry Co., Alabama.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living in Township 24, Ward 1, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, Living in Union Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1870, Living in Ward 1, Union Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1880, Living in 1st Ward, Union Parish, Louisiana

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Albert Slawson moved to Claiborne Parish Louisiana in the latter 1840s from Alabama, and he later followed relatives to the Bayou d'Loutre region east of Farmerville. He married in the latter 1850s to a widow, Holland Lee Brantley, and in 1860, they lived on the farm of her parents, Martin Batte Lee and Levincy Albritton Lee near the Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church, about six miles northeast of Farmerville.

Albert Slawson enlisted as a private in a cavalry company formed in late 1863 or early 1864 under Capt. Capers. It is unclear if he served in the 3rd or 5th Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, but in December 1864 at Alexandria, Louisiana, he was transferred to Company C, 17th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Slawson served with his unit in the Pineville and Bayou Cotile areas for the remainder of the War. He received a parole on 9 June 1865.

Holland Lee Slawson died in 1864, and Albert remarried on 17 March 1868 to Mary J. Shaw. He remarried again on 11 June 1869 to Mary E. Thurston. Albert and Mary Slawson lived about eight miles east of Farmerville for the next three decades. In 1870, he worked at a steam sawmill, but in 1880, he farmed. According to Mary's application for a Confederate pension filed in 1903, about April 1895, Albert began to suffer severely from "complications of disease, neuralgia & heart troubles in fact don't know what was the matter with him - was in bed 2 months..." Albert Slawson died on his farm on Saturday, 29 June 1895 and was buried the next day in the "Taylor Church grave yard."

Gravesite Details
Unmarked grave.

Albert married Sarah F. PERDUE on 20 Jan 1847 in Lowndes Co., Alabama. Sarah was born about 1826 in Alabama; died before 1860 in Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with husband in Township 24, Ward 1, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana