A History of Masonry in Madison County, Kentucky 1812-1913, compiled 
and written by Robert R. Burnam, 1914, p. 112

LAWSON M. SHEARER was the most distinguished member of the Madison Lodge 
Masonically and his name and fate recalls a sad story.  He was elected 
Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge in August, 1865, and was the next 
spring basely assassinated by a band of negro soldiers at his own home.  He 
was never married.

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