Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 2. 
Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 554
 
CAMILLUS P. LAWRENCE

     Who has been a resident of Baker county, Oregon, for about two decades, is
the owner of a fine stock ranch of two hundred acres within a mile and a half of
Unity.  His birth occurred in Forsyth county, Georgia, on the 29th of December,
1851, his parents being James W. and Rebecca F. (Moore) Lawrence.  The father
was born in Columbia county, Georgia, in 1820, while the mother's birth occurred
in South Carolina in 1822.  E. B. Moore, the great-grandfather of our subject,
served in the Revolutionary war for a period of seven years and won the rank of
colonel.  He afterward was also a member of the state senate from South
Carolina.  Another of the representatives of the Lawrence family in the paternal
line is Captain James Lawrence, an intrepid naval officer of the War of 1812,
who gained fame as the man who said:  "Don't give up the ship."  The parents of
our subject were married in Georgia and about 1855 removed to Smith county,
Texas, where they resided for some eighteen years.  In 1872 they took up their
abode in Searcy county, Arkansas, where James W. Lawrence passed away in 1907.
During the past five years his widow has made her home in Unity, Oregon.  James
W. Lawrence sympathized with the Union during the Civil war but he was compelled
to join the Confederate army and served therein for about a year.
     Camillus P. Lawrence, who was the third in order of birth in a family of
four sons and two daughters, remained with his parents until fifteen years of
age.  The family found itself in limited financial circumstances at the close of
the Civil war, and our subject became a cowboy in Texas at the early age of
fourteen, herding cattle until about twenty-three years old.  He was then
married and went into politics as an advocate of the democracy, being elected
sheriff of Searcy county, Arkansas, and serving in that capacity for two terms
or four years.  While a resident of that state he devoted his attention to the
raising of cotton, owning one hundred acres of land.  In 1893 he came to Baker
county, Oregon, and located on his present ranch of two hundred acres a mile and
a half west of Unity.  He has since devoted his time and energies to the raising
of horses and cattle and his efforts in this connection have been crowned with
success.  His daughter, Dora D., had homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of
the property here and after her demise he proved up the claim.
     In 1874 Mr. Lawrence was joined in wedlock to Miss Margaret Jameson, who
was born in Arkansas in 1859, her parents being James and Delcena Jameson.  The
record of their children is as follows:  Dora D., who passed away at the age of
twenty-three years; Viola, the widow of Frank Nelson, of Unity; Leola, the wife
of W. R. Kennedy, of Boise, Idaho; Nettie, who is the wife of Gus Schoembaechler
and resides in Astoria, Oregon; and Forbes K., William, Hubert and Jesse, all at
home.  C. P. Lawrence is a Royal Arch Mason and in his daily life exemplifies
the teachings of the craft.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2006 by Diana Smith. Submitter has
no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.