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LAWSON, P.P.
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Ivey Lawson
written by Frieda Kroegel Thompson (1901-1989)
n the first of January 1889, Ivey Lawson Highway, and was moved about a mile from the
and his wife Amanda Castella ( Cassie ) original site.
and their daughters Ila, Kate and Arral, Ivey Lawson was a commissary owner and cotton,
arrived in City Point from Quitman,Georgia.They peanut and tobacco farmer in Georgia and became
stayed there for several months until their daugh- a citrus grower in Sebastian. He had a profitab::e
ter Ruby was born, then they moved to Sebastian wood cutting business and provided wood for the
where they homesteaded land near Sebastian steamboats and railroad locomotives.
Highlands Twin Lakes. The Lawson children were prominent pioneer
Their son Parris had preceded them to Florida in citizens. Parris Lawson was a building contractor
December 1888. He was twelve years old and ac- and married Bamma Vickers. Ila Lawson married
companied by two other boys he drove the family Paul Kroegel, citrus grower,boat shop owner, and
mule"Ben"with a wagon loaded with the family's first National Wildlife Refuge Warden of the first
household goods.They followed the Military Trail National Wildlife Refuge, Pelican island. Kate
from Georgia to Titusville. They arrived without Lawson married William Braddock, store owner,
mishap,but the trip was a very thrilling adventure. tomato grower and tomato packing house owner,
The Lawson family came to Florida by steamboat Arral Lawson is now ninety years old and lives near
down the St. Johns River. Ivey Lawson had sold a Orlando and Ruby Lawson married Robert Ryall
beautiful colonial home in Quitman, Georgia and and now lives in Long Beach, California.
when he moved his family to their new homestead Cassie Lawson was one of a small group of woman
in Sebastian, they lived in a palmetto thatched who organized the first Methodist Church in Sebas-
house for several years until their home was built. tian.Others in the group were Mrs.Sylvanus Kitch-
The house is now the Lembo home on Old Dixie ing,Mrs.James A.Groves,Mrs.Emma Hardee and
Mrs. George B. Hall. The first
kr meetings were held in the Kitch-
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room of the Wauregan Hotel bar-
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