John was born in 1854 in Indiana as far as i know and was a son to Gasper. Ann was born around the same time period but in Kentucky in the 1870 census there is a Jo Ann(Josephine Ann) Lawson listed in the household of a John Lawson born in 1827 in Georgia. And in the 1860 Rockcastle County, Kentucky census there is a John Lawson born in Tennessee around the same time with all the same children's names. In indinana he didnt have wife though.