Lawrence Aldridge (abt. 1837)

Born about 1837 in Choctaw, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Biography

Lawrence Aldridge is a part of US Black heritage.

This profile is part of the Mound Bayou, Mississippi One Place Study.

Original Settler of Mound Bayou

Lawrence Aldridge (aka Lawrence Aldrich) was born enslaved about 1837 in Greensborough, Choctaw, Mississippi. Census records have his birth year as 1837. He came to Mound Bayou about 1895. It is not known where he was enslaved or to whom.^[1]

Lawrence married Bettie around 1866 or 1867, based on the year of birth of their first child. They had 17 children: Rachell, Jack, Revel, Tutt, Alonzo, Will, Jenette, Hurtlena, James, Mary, Lizzie, Lee, Connie, Connor, Beluh, Lawrence Aldrich, Jr., Will Aldrich, b. 5 May 1904 d. 2 Aug 1939 Chicago. Buried in Mound Bayou.^[2]

In the 1920 census Lawrence (age 83) was the married head of household with wife Bettie in Beat 5, Sunflower, Mississippi, United States.^[3]

In the 1930 census Lawrence (age 93) was the married head of household with wife Bettie and son Lawrence in Beat 5, Sunflower, Mississippi, United States.^[4]

The Negro at Mound Bayou

From the book by Aurelius P. Hood: Mr. Aldrich came to Mound Bayou about 1895, purchased, and has since paid for one hundred (100) acres of fertile delta soil, six miles east of the town just across Sunflower river, in the County of that same name. Mound Bayou, however, is his post office and his logical business place, and so he is very properly accounted a citizen of Mound Bayou.

Research Note

There is an Aldridge Cemetery in Lombardy, Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States of America. Lawrence is not memorialized there on FindAGrave, but a Bettie (Collins) Aldridge is.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Hood, Aurelius P. The Negro at Mound Bayou: being an authentic story of the founding, growth and development of the "most celebrated town in the South," covering a period of twenty-two years , page 91. Available at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/emu.010002630190
2. ↑ Death: "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
   citing FHL microfilm: 1953488; Record number: 124;
   FamilySearch Record: N3CJ-LR8 (accessed 24 May 2023)
   Will Aldridge death 2 Aug 1939 (born 5 May 1904), son of Lawrence Aldridge & Bettie Collins, husband of Millie, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.
3. ↑ 1920 Census: "United States Census, 1920"
   citing Affiliate Publication Number: T625; Affiliate Film Number: 894; Line: 97; FHL microfilm: 1820894; Record number: 26279;
   FamilySearch Record: MNTJ-F2X (accessed 24 May 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 33S7-9RXQ-XQT Image number 00543
   Lawrance Aldridge (83), married head of household in Beat 5, Sunflower, Mississippi, United States. Born in Mississippi.
4. ↑ 1930 Census: "United States Census, 1930"
   citing enumeration district (ED) ED 25, sheet 25B, line 87, family 582, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1166; FHL microfilm 2,340,901.
   FamilySearch Record: X9MD-977 (accessed 24 May 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 33SQ-GRC7-ZJ6 Image number 00269
   Lawrence Aldridge (93), married head of household in Beat 5, Sunflower, Mississippi, United States. Born in Mississippi.
5. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (no image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #223927375 (accessed 24 May 2023)
   Memorial page for Bettie Collins Aldridge (10 Apr 1831-6 May 1940), citing Aldridge Cemetery, Lombardy, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA; Maintained by Ronald Newsome (contributor 50771251).

• "U.S., Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty, 1917–1918"
  The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Series Title: Lists of Men Ordered to Report to Local Board for Military Duty in the District of Columbia; NAI Number: 1159403; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System (World War I), 1917-1939; Record Group Number: 163
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 4906 #214072 (accessed 24 May 2023)
  Name: Lawerence Aldridge; Gender: Male; Entrainment Date: 23 Aug 1918; Entrainment Camp: Camp Shelby; Local Board: Sunflower, Mississippi, USA; Residence Year: Abt 1918.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4GR-FDL : 14 January 2022), Reuben Aldrige in household of Larren Aldrige, Beat 5, Montgomery, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 144, sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .