Name: Chester L Lawson
Service Info.: EN1 US NAVY WORLD WAR II, KOREA, VIETNAM
Birth Date: 30 May 1927
Death Date: 21 Apr 1997
Cemetery: Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 301 South County Trail Exeter, RI 02822
Buried At: Section G-11
SSN 465-36-7123 TEXAS
Egineman first class Navy for 24 years.
Veteran World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
He worked 12 years for Leviton Manufacturing Co, Warwick RI in the maintanance department.
Retired in 1988.
Birth place Cross Plains
Cross Plains had been named Turkey Creek - the stream that still crosses the town's Treadaway Park. It's early years had the basic necessities like a store, a cotton gin and gristmill, but little else. They had one newspaper in 1902 (The Herald) but it soon went out of business. The second paper, The Cross Plains Review started in 1909 and continued into the 80s*. The town incorporated in 1910 with a population of 600. Two years later the Texas Central Railroad came through. The Katy (Missouri, Kansas and Texas) Railroad took over the Texas Central and for years ran "The Peanut Special" between Cross Plains and DeLeon (Comanche County). Peanuts were a major Callahan County crop. An oil boom in 1925 increased the population and by 1940 it was over 1,200. It has remained hovering around the 1,000 mark for the last 50 years.
1930 Census
Name: Chester L Lawson
Home in 1930: Precinct 6, Callahan, Texas
Age: 2
Estimated birth year: abt 1927
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's name: Chester
Mother's name: Emma
He served in the military US Navy and Retired at Newport (Newport), RI in 1969.