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     Biographical Information
    
      - September 17, 1950
 
      - Louis and Rosamond Lawson have a son, born Charleston. S.C. 
 
     
    
      - December 31, 1958
 
      - Riding my Christmas-new bike home from Jay Ball's house, I'm hit by a car and break my
        left arm.
 
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      - June 15, 1959
 
      - After buying a new home on South Battery in Charleston, my father is transferred by
        Westvaco to Richmond.
 
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      - August 11, 1961
 
      - My parents, my sisters and I move from Moreland Farms to Roselawn Road.
 
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      - June 12, 1968
 
      - I graduate 490th out of a class of 492 at Thomas Jefferson High School, a fine local
        public school.
 
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      - May 24, 1974
 
      - I graduate in the top 10% of my class at The University of Richmond, with a Bachelors
        degree in Journalism. 
 
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      - July 20, 1974
 
      - I marry Katherine Walton Moore in the Pastor's office at the First Unitarian Church near
        Byrd Park.
 
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      - February 15, 1983
 
      - Sarah Waring Lawson is born at the Medical College of Virginia.
 
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      - April 9, 1985
 
      - Benjamin Russell Lawson is born at Henrico Doctors Hospital.
 
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      - April 2, 1990
 
      - Rosamond Salmons Lawson, my mother, dies of congestive heart failure.
 
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      - May 9, 1994
 
      - Louis Russell Lawson, Jr., dies as a result of a traffic accident in Dillon, S.C.
 
       
      
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