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MARRIAGE: 13 Jul 1804, McIntosh Bluff, Washington Co. MS now Alabama
Notes
Lawrence Street in Lake Charles is named after her.
While some folks have Ggggrandmother Anna born in England, she
was probably born on McIntosh Bluff on the Tombigbee River about
40 miles north of Mobile, Alabama on April 07,1788 to Joseph and
Ann Lawrence. The Mississippi Territory Tax Rolls have her
father there two years before her birth. She and Thomas Bilbo
were married on the Bluff on July12, 1804. The Lawrences and
Bilbos both owned property on the Bluff. On a historical
sidenote, Aaron Burr was arrested there in the early 1800s and
the Bluff was the site of a large Bluegrass gathering a couple
of years ago.
She passed away in the home of son-in-law John Jacob Ryan, Jr
and her daughter Rebecca Gaines Bilbo on the northeast corner of
Pujo and Hodges streets in Lake Charles in 1871, one block east
of the Genealogy Library.
From this union also came Bilbo and Lawrence Streets, the corner
of which the Cola Coca plant was located in the mid 1900s. (A
little humor)
The homesite where Ann passed away is now a corner parking lot
across from the First Baptist Church.
Another Lake Charles street fits into our family history.
Division Street was the street used to divide the town up; the
Bilbos took everything north of the street and the Ryans
everything south.