michael818
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Post by michael818 on Apr 1, 2011 18:08:27 GMT -4
But gone...
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Post by cecil on Apr 11, 2011 11:58:36 GMT -4
Well, I can kind of see that it would be annoying people coming around all the time if I lived there. Lol I actually thought about driving by today until you said that. the house is gone. the new owners of the land built a new house there. just leave all as being. the area is not haunted, and i visit the cemetary occasionally to pay my respects, they are at rest, let it be.
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Post by michael818 on Apr 11, 2011 20:31:07 GMT -4
The people who own it now are from out of state. The Watts family, who built the new house, sold it a couple of years ago. These new owners care nothing for the attention, and have had people charged for trespassing... However, say the property isn't haunted all you wish. Too many people have told me different... including one of the Watts girls...
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Post by michael818 on Apr 11, 2011 21:06:05 GMT -4
I DO agree however, that they should be left in peace. The story generates such curiousity, though, that I am afraid that is a dim hope...
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Post by michael818 on Apr 28, 2011 15:29:44 GMT -4
We went down as teenagers....even went through the house. (Not the smartest thing in the world, considering it was owned by a woman who worked for the Sheriff's Dept lol)...nothing really weird happened then either.... Oh, and I have a pic of that house too in case no one's familiar with it! Gorgeous old place...I adore old houses. Pretty typical farmhouse of the area, definately not the "plantation" it is made out to be in many of the stories. The picture is looking cool. I think it's really a gorgeous old place. This is the EDWARDS House on EDWARDS (NOT Payne) Road. It is called payne rd., but this is not the name. Sadly, she is gone, burned to the ground in the 90's...
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Post by shannon lawson on Sept 25, 2011 5:19:04 GMT -4
My name is Shannon Lawson and i am a direct relative of the lawsons from stokes county. I would just like to say the mental illness runs in our family just like cancer or any other disease. charlie was sick and that is the one and only reason a person could do the things he did. This type situation has happened far to frequently through out history. The situation with my relatives was and is not any different and i just would like people to know it .
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Post by michael818 on Sept 26, 2011 15:39:37 GMT -4
In recent years, I have speculated that perhaps Mr. Lawson suffered from some sort of dementia, perhaps evern Alzheimer's. Many of the stories told of how he was acting in certain situations just before the killings indicate symptoms and asctions much like someone suffering from dementia, so i would not be surprised to find this was the case. Does that sad disease run in the Lawson Clan?
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Post by Dillon Pomeroy on Apr 7, 2012 0:26:17 GMT -4
The Lawson murders and Payne road have been confused for a long time, mostly because of rumors and locations. Mostly everyone around the area new about the Lawson murders. People who went down Payne Road experienced an eerie feeling just being around there. Payne Road and the Lawson murders got mixed when the original Lawson cabin was tore down, because not to long after, a wooden bridge was built on Payne Road. When you drive a car made before 1990 on the bridge and turn your car off, it doesn't start back up. Because of the location and time similarities, it was said that the bridge was built using the wood from the Lawson cabin. People also knew that this wasn't true so they made legit rumors that the broke-in houses and the tobacco barns/fields were used for slavery and slaves were killed all down this road. They probably said this because there would be no record that old, even if it was true. This is probably why there is no records of these "murders". There are more stories about family murders and suicides on Payne Road that are most likely runoffs from the Lawson family murders. I think the reason for the eerie feeling on Payne Road is because it is a curvy back road with only broke-in houses, tobacco barns, and graveyards, it is also in the woods. The only ghost story I can't find an explanation for is the one about a wreck. They day that a man was flying down the road in a 1940's model Ford truck with round headlights, when he passed the largest turn he hit a tree and burned to death in the burning truck. The Lawson graves are situated off of Brook Cove Road, a road forking off NC hwy 8, as soon as you turn right onto Brook Cove Road there is a gravel road heading into the woods, back to the Lawson graves. I am a distant cousin of the Lawson family. Here is my theory: Charles Davis Lawson murdered his family on Christmas day 1929. I think he molested his daughter and got her pregnant due to this picture they took shortly before the deaths, he then went on with his life. Shortly after, Charlie's son started bucking up to him, Charlie then accepted to work more farmland to pay for his family to live. All of this stress began getting harder and harder on Charlie, so he hit himself in the head with an ax. Once the baby began getting noticeable the daughter didn't want to risk getting caught, so she was planning to tell the family on Christmas day. On Christmas, everyone had came over for supper and target practice. Charlie was planning to kill his whole family if the daughter revealed her secret, but the eldest son was catching on to his plan, so he pretended to run out of bullets so he could go "buy more", but no store is open on Christmas day, obviously, so I think he knew Charlie wasn't going to murder the family if he was there to buck up to him so he went, hid, and waited until he thought Charlie was about to do kill them, then came and killed his father, he then realized that Charlie had already killed the family, so he writes 2 suicide notes and sits them and the gun used to kill him beside him. The book says that Charlie used a shotgun to shoot himself in the chest, but imagine how hard it would be to do so. That was only my theory, there are no 100% accurate theories, so just know that mine may/ may not be true, but you have to admit, it's clever
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Post by Guest on Apr 12, 2012 9:45:39 GMT -4
That most definitely is a clever theory! I have never seen anyone come at it at that angle! And like you said, no one knows the truth so no one can say 100% what happened. I do have 2 things to say about your theory. Stores WERE open on Christmas Day - in 1929 Christmas was nothing like it is today. My grandparents can confirm that - the commercialization was not there and many stores were open on Christmas day. Also, Arthur was with a large group of people at the cabin when Charlie shot himself - the murders had been discovered, everyone was standing around, shocked, trying to figure out what happened, trying to comfort Arthur, when they all heard the shot of Charlie killing himself. And it certainly is possible to kill yourself with a shotgun - Kurt Cobain of Nirvana proved that. I would imagine Charlie used a stick of some kind to depress the trigger. It would be a hard thing to do, but not impossible. Again, no one knows what happened 100%, but I think it's great that you have thought out this unique theory to get us all thinking again!
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Post by jadedphoenix on Aug 26, 2012 6:50:58 GMT -4
This may seem like an odd question but does anyone know if THIS Charlie Lawson would be of any relation to Roger Lawson. His father (I know that its the wrong generation but possibly named after the above individual) was named Charlie as well. Anyway, Roger Lawson murdered Hazel Alexander in 1978 inside of a church. I knew him only because my mother married him in 1994. (She's mentally ill and he took advantage of that fact.) That man had a very evil aura around him all of the time and no matter how many times I would bless the house or perform banishments/deliverances of the house a lot of activity would be reported by my mother as soon as he would return home. I witnessed a tv that was unplugged turn on many times. It just seemed to catch me wondering if it could be in the bloodlines.
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Post by michael818 on Aug 27, 2012 22:13:30 GMT -4
All of Charlie Lawson's kids but one died that Christmas day. The only survivor died in a wreck 15 years later... he had children, but I doin't know if any were named Roger...
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Post by brianna on Sept 30, 2012 2:09:58 GMT -4
I am actually related to Charlie Lawson...!!!!! When i figured that out i was actually a little freaked out!!!
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Post by michael818 on Sept 30, 2012 12:41:08 GMT -4
You're OK... Being related doesn't mean anything...
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Post by Dunlap77 on Jan 15, 2018 5:16:23 GMT -4
The Lawson murders and Payne road have been confused for a long time, mostly because of rumors and locations. Mostly everyone around the area new about the Lawson murders. People who went down Payne Road experienced an eerie feeling just being around there. Payne Road and the Lawson murders got mixed when the original Lawson cabin was tore down, because not to long after, a wooden bridge was built on Payne Road. When you drive a car made before 1990 on the bridge and turn your car off, it doesn't start back up. Because of the location and time similarities, it was said that the bridge was built using the wood from the Lawson cabin. People also knew that this wasn't true so they made legit rumors that the broke-in houses and the tobacco barns/fields were used for slavery and slaves were killed all down this road. They probably said this because there would be no record that old, even if it was true. This is probably why there is no records of these "murders". There are more stories about family murders and suicides on Payne Road that are most likely runoffs from the Lawson family murders. I think the reason for the eerie feeling on Payne Road is because it is a curvy back road with only broke-in houses, tobacco barns, and graveyards, it is also in the woods. The only ghost story I can't find an explanation for is the one about a wreck. They day that a man was flying down the road in a 1940's model Ford truck with round headlights, when he passed the largest turn he hit a tree and burned to death in the burning truck. The Lawson graves are situated off of Brook Cove Road, a road forking off NC hwy 8, as soon as you turn right onto Brook Cove Road there is a gravel road heading into the woods, back to the Lawson graves. I am a distant cousin of the Lawson family. Here is my theory: Charles Davis Lawson murdered his family on Christmas day 1929. I think he molested his daughter and got her pregnant due to this picture they took shortly before the deaths, he then went on with his life. Shortly after, Charlie's son started bucking up to him, Charlie then accepted to work more farmland to pay for his family to live. All of this stress began getting harder and harder on Charlie, so he hit himself in the head with an ax. Once the baby began getting noticeable the daughter didn't want to risk getting caught, so she was planning to tell the family on Christmas day. On Christmas, everyone had came over for supper and target practice. Charlie was planning to kill his whole family if the daughter revealed her secret, but the eldest son was catching on to his plan, so he pretended to run out of bullets so he could go "buy more", but no store is open on Christmas day, obviously, so I think he knew Charlie wasn't going to murder the family if he was there to buck up to him so he went, hid, and waited until he thought Charlie was about to do kill them, then came and killed his father, he then realized that Charlie had already killed the family, so he writes 2 suicide notes and sits them and the gun used to kill him beside him. The book says that Charlie used a shotgun to shoot himself in the chest, but imagine how hard it would be to do so. That was only my theory, there are no 100% accurate theories, so just know that mine may/ may not be true, but you have to admit, it's clever
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Post by Dunlap77 on Jan 15, 2018 6:14:51 GMT -4
Dillon how could Arthur kill his father if he was standing there with family members when Charlie shot him self?Charlie had went in the woods after he killed the family and hid for hours after the bodys were discovered.Probably to get up the nerve to kill himself and write the suicide notes.It is strange the notes were not finished and there were 2 of them.But he was suffering from mental illness and just murdered his intire family.Who knows why there were 2 unfinished suicide notes?While the people were gathering at the house they heard a shot in the woods.Arthur and a few others ran toward where the shot came from and found Charlie had just killed himself.So Arthur couldnt have killed his father.If it happened that way.Who knows maybe you are write.I just want to say I think Marie was very beautiful and its terrible that her and the rest of her family that were killed that day were not able to live out there lives.I hope they rest in peace!
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