Lawrence Berry Washington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lawrence Berry Washington

American lawyer, military officer, author, Forty-niner, Border Ruffian, and a member of the Washington family

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1811

Place of Birth: Cedar Lawn, West Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 21-Sep-1856

Profession: lawyer, military personnel, poet, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Lawrence Berry Washington

  • Lawrence Berry Washington (November 26, 1811 – September 21, 1856) was an American lawyer, military officer, author, Forty-niner, Border Ruffian, and a member of the Washington family.
  • Washington was born on his family's Cedar Lawn plantation near Charles Town, Virginia (present-day West Virginia) and was the eldest of 13 children.
  • He practiced law, then served as a second lieutenant in the Virginia Volunteers during the Mexican–American War.
  • During his service in the war, Washington reportedly wore the sword of his great-granduncle George Washington. Following the Mexican–American War, Washington traveled to California in 1849 as a Forty-niner in the California Gold Rush and authored the novel, A Tale to be Told Some Fifty Years Hence.
  • Washington then relocated east to Missouri in the 1850s, where he remained for a few years and fought as a Border Ruffian during the Bleeding Kansas confrontations over slavery along the border between Kansas Territory and Missouri.
  • While under the command of Captain Henry Clay Pate, Washington was present at the June 1856 Free-Stater attack known as Battle of Black Jack, where he sustained minor injuries.
  • Washington died by drowning after falling overboard from a steamboat on the Missouri River in September 1856.
  • His family's descendants claim Washington was murdered by Jayhawkers. Washington was a great-grandson of Samuel Washington, a great-grandnephew of first President of the United States George Washington, a great-grandson of Robert Rutherford, a United States House Representative from Virginia, and a nephew of Henry Bedinger III, also a member of the U.S.
  • House of Representatives.

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