lawside men answer the civil war call
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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
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