lawside men answer the civil war call

Linda Shockley, Lawnside Historical Society, Inc.

Lincoln and the Constitution Celebration

Camden County College, November 7, 2013

incorporated as a municipality by an act of the state legislature in 1926

bounded by Haddonfield, Tavistock, Barrington, Magnolia and Cherry Hill.

26 Kings Court

P.O. Box 608

Lawnside, NJ 08045-0608

856.546.8850

Open Saturdays

Noon to 3 p.m.

www.petermotthouse.org

lhs@petermotthouse.org

By Charles C. Smiley

Published in Camden, N.J., 1921

From “A True Story of Lawnside,” by Charles C. Smiley, Camden, N.J., 1921

SEC. 1. BE it enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and

it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That every child born of a

slave within this state, after the fourth day of July next, shall be free; but shall

remain the servant of the owner of his or her mother, and the

executors, administrators or assigns of such owner, in the same manner as if

such child had been bound to service by the trustees or overseers of the

poor, and shall continue in such service, if a male, until the age of twenty five

years; and if a female until the age of twenty one years.

Oakes writes: What sealed slavery’s fate was the now unstoppable public discussion of it.

Main Gate to

Mount Peace

Cemetery

Lawnside, Ne

w Jersey

Circa 1935

CIVIL WAR MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER

Mount Peace Cemetery Association, c/o Yolanda Romero, 207 JFK Blvd., Lawnside NJ 08045 A

501 (c)(13) tax exempt non-profit organization seeking volunteers and conations.

Partial List

of Lawnside

Civil War

Veterans

from “A True

Story of

Lawnside”

The Lawnside Historical Society, Inc.

P.O. Box 608

Lawnside NJ 08045-0608

856.546.8850

http://www.petermotthouse.org

lhs@petermotthouse.org