This is the latest stage of what has always been a group effort and I have received assistance from many. Particular thanks, though, go to those who have most recently helped to re-weave the tapestry: Elisha Flagg Lee Jr., and Helen Burgin on my mother’s side; John Endicott Lawrence Sr., and Frances Weeks Lawrence on my father’s. Lastly, we owe a debt to the eighteenth and nineteenth-century New Englanders who cared, as their families began to scatter, to write this all down the first time.
Author: LSL
4 Quotes
From nowhere we come; into nowhere we go. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot, Blackfoot Tribe, last words
I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it’s a most precious graveyard.
Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov. V, 3.
Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.
Joel 1: 3.
This music comforts my solitude.
It takes me to my father’s house
in Boston, to my ancestors….
It takes me to my father’s house
in Boston, to my ancestors….
Where are they?
Where are the songs of mothers
comforting their babies?
Where are the stories of the elders,
the whispers of love, the battle cries?
Where did they go?
Where are the songs of mothers
comforting their babies?
Where are the stories of the elders,
the whispers of love, the battle cries?
Where did they go?
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
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Frontispiece
The family photograph at above was provided courtesy of Edward P. Lawrence. Individuals shown are as follows, from left to right:
Back row: James Lawrence, Marian Lawrence Peabody, Dorothy Lawrence, Harold Peabody
Middle row: Marion Peabody Lawrence, Martha Whitney Peabody, [picture of Sam Peabody], John Endicott Peabody
Front row: John Endicott Lawrence, Gertrude Lawrence Peabody, James Lawrence
Dated: 1918, in front of the summer house in Brookline, MA
For a diagram of who they were, and how they all relate see below:
Clarification to the diagram above: Years after posting this, a product of some now-much-outdated genealogy software, I just realized the lines leading from Marion Lee (Peabody) Lawrence to her children, and the line leading from Harold Peabody to his child, are blurred, or overlap. This could cause some confusion. Pending an update/ redrawing of the diagram, Marion (and husband, James Lawrence) had three children: James, John, and Dorothy. Harold (and wife, Marian Lawrence) had one child: Gertrude Lawrence (Peabody) McCue.
Kinsmen and Kinswomen 