{{Short description|American writer (1869–1960)}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2026}} [[File:A Few of the Eminent Women of California, Mariana Bertola, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, May Showler Groves, Minna McGauley, Maud Wilde, Jeanette Lawrence, Miriam Van Waters, David Starr Jordan, Annie Florence Brown, Gertrude Atherton.jpg|thumb|A Few of the Eminent Women of California, Mariana Bertola, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, May Showler Groves, Minna McGauley, Maud Wilde, Jeanette Lawrence, Miriam Van Waters, Mrs. David Starr Jordan, Annie Florence Brown, Gertrude Atherton]]
'''Jeanette Carolyn Heintzen Lawrence''' (May 3, 1869 – July 6, 1960) was an American writer and lecturer.
==Biography== Jeanette Carolyn Heintzen was born on May 3, 1869<ref>{{cite web|title=Jeanette Lawrence in the 1940 Census|url=https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/California/Jeanette-Lawrence_2k71f2|website=1940 Census|accessdate=28 January 2018}}</ref> in Sierra County, California, the daughter of Charles Heintzen, Jr and Sarah V. Busch.<ref name="Binheim" /> Her father was the first banker north of Sacramento in the 1850s.<ref>{{cite web|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129140444/http://ecv10.com/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=5|archive-date=29 January 2018|title=The Naming of a Chapter of ECV|date=8 March 2010|orig-date=Originally published in the ''Hewgag Monitor'' in October 1987|last=Barry|first=Tom|url=http://ecv10.com/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=5|website=E Clampus Vitus Chapter 10 Home Page|via=submission by user XNGH Jason Thorn}}</ref> From both her father's and her mother's sides she was descended from California pioneers: Charles Heintzen, Sr. drove the stagecoach for Wells Fargo, sometimes hiding the gold from the North Yuba River mines in butter churns on their way to San Francisco, via Marysville; August Busch partnered with Herringlake in establishing the Wells Fargo building in Sierra City.<ref>{{cite web|title=Comment on "The Stagecoach Comes to California"|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826063910/https://cherylannestapp.com/stagecoach-california/|archive-date=26 August 2018|url=https://cherylannestapp.com/stagecoach-california/|author=Chris Carey-Flores|date=30 July 2014|website=California's Olden Golden Days}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2023}}
She moved to Sacramento in 1910 and lived at 918 Mission Way, Sacramento, California. She first married Carey and later married Richard Kay Lawrence (1881–1953) and had two children: Charles Josef Carey (from the first husband) and Richard Jay Lawrence (1907–1994) (from the second husband).<ref name="Binheim" />
She was a writer and speaker; she was the organizer, and for two years president of the Sacramento Branch of the League of American Penwomen; she was president of the P.E.O. Sisterhood; she was president of the Tuesday Club; she was State Chairman of Literature of the California Federation of Women's Clubs.<ref name="Binheim" />
She had poems published in newspapers and magazines; a poem to ''California's Sacred Sons'' decorated by artist Louise Tessin, was presented to Sacramento Memorial Auditorium and then hung in the Memorial Hall of the building.<ref name="Binheim" />
She was the author of: ''My Service Flag'', ''The Unknown Soldier'', ''American'', ''Wings of Triumph'', ''The American Comet'', ''Pine Songs of the Sierras'' and other poems.<ref name="Binheim" />
She was very active in women's club work, and was well-known dramatic reader and lecturer.<ref name="Binheim" />
She was a member of: Penwomen, California, Writers Club, Woman's Forum, Tuesday Club, Daughters of the Nile, Order of the Eastern Star, L. W. Charity Club, American War Mothers.<ref name="Binheim">{{cite book|last1=Binheim|first1=Max|last2=Elvin|first2=Charles A|title=Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America|date=1928|page=[https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh/page/60/mode/2up 61]|url=https://archive.org/details/womenofwestserie00binh|accessdate=27 March 2023|via=Internet Archive}}{{PD-notice}}</ref>
Jeanette Lawrence died on July 6, 1960, and is buried at East Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento.
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