Michael Anthony Lawson

Michael Anthony Lawson was a familiar presence in the Hinds County area. Public records and contemporaneous news accounts identify him as a 57-year-old man from Raymond, Mississippi, who lived in and around the Edwards community. While details about his early life, schooling, and career are limited in the public record available to this researcher, local reporting shows he was known to people in the neighborhood and was part of a household and community in Hinds County.

Because no family-published obituary or funeral-home notice matching his name and the date of death (January 26, 2020) was found in available authoritative sources, much of Michael’s private life — the stories family and close friends would tell about his daily kindnesses, work, and small joys — is not publicly documented. That lack of a formal obituary does not diminish the fact that his life mattered. Those who knew him lived beside him in the same town, and the community felt the sudden loss.

This page honors Michael by recording what is reliably known and by respectfully acknowledging what is not. He is remembered as a man from the Raymond/Edwards area whose life touched others in ways that are not fully captured in news reports. For those seeking more personal remembrances, funeral-home listings, church bulletins, or family notices from early 2020 in Hinds County may hold additional, family-shared details and photos that would give a fuller picture of Michael’s life and the relationships he valued.

May this brief remembrance stand as a quiet recognition that Michael Anthony Lawson was a real person, rooted in a community, whose life and loss mattered to people who knew him.