44 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



baggagemaster for the B. C. F. & N. B. railroad between Fitchburg 

 and Providence, and afterwards express messenger on the Fitchburg 

 railroad between this city and Boston. 



Lieut. Lawrence married January 4, 1870, Florence F., widow of 

 Lieut. Fred H. Sibley and daughter of Harrison Smith, who, with 

 one son Lewis S., survives him. His aged father and one sister 

 Mrs. George F. Battles, are also living. 



He was one of the bravest soldiers who served in the field and the 

 seeds of his long illness were undoubtedly sown during the trying 

 experiences of camp and field. His family mourn a kind and faith- 

 ful husband and father, and the community loses an honorable and 

 patriotic citizen. 



Henry L. Lawrence, the father, outlived both his sons, and 

 died at Fitchburg on December 19, 1895, ^t the advanced 

 age of 87 yrs. i month and 1 1 days. 



S. A. G. 



"The Groton Landmark," July 8, 191 1. 



TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION. 



A STORY of the Civil War, as told by James Joseph O'Brien, 

 a member of Company B, 26th Massachusetts Infantry, Cap- 

 tain E. S. Clark, a charter member and first adjutant of 

 E. S. Clark Post, No. 1 1 5 , G. A. R., of Groton, and Past Com- 

 mander of George S. Boutwell Post of Ayer, Massachusetts, 

 about the name of a confederate soldier on the memorial 

 tablet in Groton. 



Near the entrance to the Town Hall there is a large marble 

 tablet, upon which, in letters of gold, are the names, command, 

 date, and place of death, of soldiers who enlisted to fill the 

 quota of the town of Groton. The tablet is the town's me- 

 morial to its soldier heroes. One of these inscriptions reads 

 as follows : 



TIMOTHY O'CONNOR, 



Co. B. 26 Mass. Regt 



Killed at Winchester, Va. 



Sept. 19, 1864. 



