VAN HOOK LAWRENCE

Male - Bef 1801


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  • Name VAN HOOK LAWRENCE  [1
    Born Hunterdon, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef Jan 1801  Caswell, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I26510  Gynzer's Genealogy Database
    Last Modified 4 Jul 2005 

    Family LLOYD BRIDGET,   b. New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1778, Caswell, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. VAN HOOK AARON,   d. Aft 1914, Pulaski County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. VAN HOOK LOYD
    +3. VAN HOOK LAWRENCE JR.,   b. Abt 1760,   d. Bef 7 Apr 1807, Russell County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 47 years)
    Family ID F09167  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Per Larry Herrin:
      Powell, William S. (1977). "When the Past Refused to Die". Caswell County
      Historical Society: Yanceville, NC.

      page 94.
      "But with the opening of the new courthouse early in 1785 the area around it
      began to develop. Lawrence Van Hook was authorized to keep an ordinary or
      tavern at Caswell Court House, as the place was called, later that year."

      page 168.
      "Not all young people lived such an easy life. Young Lloyd Van Hook, who had
      recently gone to Danville, Virginia, to work, wrote a very touching letter home
      to his father, Lawrence, on March 18, 1837. He was obviously quite homesick and
      now filled with repentance for something that had occurred before he left for
      the big city. `I should be very glad to see you all and all of my old
      acquaintances. I should be very glad to see old Uncle Thomas Johnston's Family
      it would afford me great pleasure to spend a week over the ground where I was
      chiefly raised although I know that it would make me feel Melincholy still it
      would afford me pleasure-but nay the time is past when I shall be as one of
      your family-no more I shall enjoy the pleasing smiles of my little Brothers &
      Sisters night after night, but nay, [i am] still absent from you all,
      unfortunate and disobedient child that I am ..." (Continues on for a while).
      "But all must have been forgiven because young Van Hook was back in Caswell
      County in 1846 employed as a schoolteacher."

  • Sources 
    1. [S096727] Larry Herrin/penengr2/@/aol.com.


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