Bio: Dr. Paul Lawrence, Bossier Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker




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DR. PAUL LAWRENCE is one of the very foremost of the professional men of
Bossier Parish, and is a physician of acknowledged merit throughout this
region. He was born in Lowndes County, Miss., in 1839, being the son of
David and Susan (Riggs) Lawrence, both of whom were born in South Carolina,
he in 1800, and she about ten years later.  Their marriage took place in
their native State, and from there they moved to Mississippi, where Mrs.
Lawrence died when Paul was a lad.  Mr. Lawrence was married again, and in
1849 came to Bossier Parish, where he followed the occupation of a farmer
and was a local Methodist minister until his death, which occurred in 1865.
 He was a member of the A. F. & A. M. at Minden, and was a son of Nathaniel
Lawrence, a South Carolinian who died in Mississippi when over eighty years
of age, being of Irish descent.  The Doctor is one of two sons and two
daughters, and in addition to assisting his father on the home farm in his
youth he attended Fillmore Academy, and in the winter of 1860-61, was an
attendant of the medical department of the University of New Orleans.  At
the breaking out of the war he left this institution to join the
Confederate army, and enlisted in Company B, Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry,
Army of the Tennessee, and was at Shiloh, Chicamauga, where he was wounded
in the shoulder at Dalton, and at New Hope Church, where he lost his right
leg in May, 1864, and was soon after taken to relatives in Mississippi,
where he remained until the summer of 1865, at which time he returned home
and resumed the study of medicine.  In 1867 he graduated from his former alma
mater and at once began practicing near his old home in Bossier Parish, in
which locality he won the confidence and respect of all who know him.  He was
married in 1870 to Miss Mary J., daughter of William P. and Harriet Haughton,
the former a South Carolinian and the latter born in Tennessee.  They removed
first to Mississippi, and about 1846 or 1847, settled where the town of
Haughton now is.  Here he died in 1856, and his widow in 1878, both
Methodists, and he a farmer and teacher by occupation.  Mrs. Lawrence was born
on the farm on which she is now living, being the mother of two sons and seven
daughters.  The Doctor is the owner of 1,300 acres of land in two tracts, the
most of which he has earned by his own efforts, and his residence is handsome
and comfortable.  He and wife are members of the Methodist Church, and
socially he belongs to the K. of P., Friendship Lodge No. 13, of Haughton. 
The Doctor has a younger brother, Thomas H., who served in the same company
and regiment that he did during the war, and escaped without a wound.  He is
now a farmer in Fanning County, Tex.