Lawrence County, Missouri (Fanning's, 1853)
Gazetteer/Almanac
      
            LAWRENCE COUNTY, situated in the southwesterly part of Missouri. Area, --------- square miles. Seat of justice, Mount Vernon. Pop. in 1850, 4,859.
      
            Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....  (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 185.