In the back row from left to right is William David and Jabus ‘Jabe’ Monroe Lawson.
In the front left to right is Celia Caroline (Evans), A. Josephine ‘Josie’ and Vinyard T. Lawson.

Vinyard T. Lawson was the younger brother of Albert G. Lawson, born around 1848 in the Pleasant Grove area of Walker County, Alabama. He passed away before 1896 in what is now Talihina, LeFlore County, Oklahoma. He married Celia Caroline Evans in Alabama and moved to Indian Territory before 1880. In 1880, he appears in Wade County, Choctaw Nation records as a sharecropper renting land from Gilbert W. Dukes. Records suggest that he continued working as a sharecropper for the Choctaw Indians, and family tradition holds that he may have worked on the railroad when it passed through Talihina.

His family believes that his full name was Thomas Vinyard Lawson, but all the records I have found list his name as Vinyard, Vinn, or Vinn T. Lawson.