Was living with her brother Thompson in 1880 in Quaker Gap, Stokes County, North Carolina.
This Mary Lawson may have never married.
If she did, it was to another Lawson, and there were too many Mary/Polly Lawsons in Stokes County during her time period to tell which Lawson she married.
Sources
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCX5-JC6 : 11 August 2016), Mary Lawson in household of Tompson Lawson, Quaker Gap, Stokes, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district ED 250, sheet 434B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0982; FHL microfilm 1,254,982.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary: