Albert Lawrence was confirmed in Nashville, Kansas, St. John's Lutheran
   Church, after the J.J. and Eva Lawrence family moved from Hope, Kansas.
   The Lawrence home was about one mile north of Nashville. Abert acquired
   the life-long nickname of "Poly" from a Nashville High School debate.
     He was a farmer and rancher. His special talent was helping the young
   folks with church and school activities.
     In 1928, Albert married Millie Davis from Kingman, who was a Nashville
   school teacher. Mille was confirmed by Pastor Krause in the St. John's
   Lutheran Church.
     Millie was a charter member of the Dorcas Society, a Bible School teacher
   and, in the fifties, was lunch room supervisor of the three combined Nashville
   schools. Fern Lampe and Laurene Dicke were assistants.
     Children of Albert and Millie were Kent, Layle, Marilyn and James, who
   died in infancy. Kent and his wife Marlyne were Zenda, Sharon and Medicine
   Lodge teachers until the death of Kent's father in 1959. Then they took
   over the Ridge Farm and Millie moved to Kingman. Kent and Marlyne's children
   are Karran, Tracy and Darcy.
     Layle has been Professor of Ag Education at West Virginia University since
   1971. He and his family spent five years in Hyderabad, India, where he was
   Farm Implements specialist at Andra Pradesh Agriculture University. Layle 
   and Joyce's children are L.D. and Lora. Millie and granddaughter Karran
   visited them in India in 1970.
     Marilyn was church organist for many years for Nashville, St. John's and
   Medicine Lodge Trinity Churches. She taught school in Cunningham, Anthony,
   and Hutchinson. Marilyns children are Robert and Carol. She now resides in
   Hutchinson. 
     Millie was Kingman County Register of Deeds Depty for ten years. In 1967
   she married Claud Wallace; he died in 1971. She then returned to Medicine
   Lodge where she still resides.
     Registered at the Kingman County Courthouse are legal papers dated 1917
   changing the spelling of the Lawrence name from "Lawrenz" to "Lawrence".
   Albert's father, J.J. Lawrence was a very patriotic American and, because
   of the sentiment against the German people in World War I, he had the "z"
   changed to a "ce." Descendants of Henry and Fred, who were of age at the
   change, spell their name "Lawrenz." John, Edward and Albert were minors and
   their names became "Lawrence."
                     
  Source:St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial 1893-1993, Nashville, Kansas, pg. 64 
  Submitted by: Millie Lawrence Wallace