Isaac Yates and Polly A. Neal were married in this county on January 6, 1870. They were both born in this county; he is 1851, and his wife in 1855.
Martha J. Martin
Capt. J.W. Earles
After forty-eight years in Webb City, Capt. J. W. Earles age 91 years of 111 south Ball Street passed away from infirmities incident to age.
Ohio Baptist Assocation
In the year 1819, the Ohio Baptist Association was formed. It consisted of churches in Lawrence, Gallia, Jackson, and Scioto counties. One of these churches was composed of members living in both Jackson and Gallia counties,
Notable Gunsmiths
Seldon (Sheldon) Peters was a noted maker of the “Kentucky Long Rifle” who lived at Getaway in Lawrence County, Ohio, from 1845 until his death on 3 January 1909.
Christian Yingling
Christian Yingling was born in western Pennsylvania, on April 24, 1788, and died September 12, 1856. His wife, Martha Lee, was born in Patrick County, Virginia, on August 2, 1795, and died on May 8, 1877.
William Wilgus
William Wilgus was born in Union township, where Proctorville now stands. He was raised on his father’s farm, where he remained up to 1845, when they both entered into the produce trade on the Ohio river, plying between St. Martinsville and Pattersonville.
Charles Worthington
Charles Worthington and Rachel Cartwright were married on September 18, 1834. He is a native of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1813. He came to Lawrence County in 1836.
Isaac Winters
Isaac Winters was the son of Mathias and Rebecca (Brubaker) Winters, who was born in Lawrence County, on August 26, 1830. His parents came to this county in 1815. His father died in 1834, and his mother in 1877.
Vietnam Veterans
This page is for the heroes that served in the Vietnam War. My brother, Stephen H. Martin was one of those heroes. I remember the feeling of him leaving, never knowing if we would see him again. My mother prayed for many hours which turned into days, then months. Thankfully her prayers were answered when ten months later we met him on the tarmac at the Tr-State Airport in Huntington, WV. This page is for him and all the others that served in Vietnam War.
Donald R. Long Medal of Honor
Sgt. Donald R. Long was serving as an assistant platoon leader in the 1st Infantry Division when his unit was attacked by a heavily supported Vietcong regiment. He inspired his comrades by repeatedly exposing himself to enemy fire while assisting the wounded and by fearlessly standing unprotected to repel the attacker with rifle fire and grenade.
Silas Wilks
Silas Wilks was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, on June 12, 1838, in which county he was married on January 3, 1867, to Carolina M. Munsell, who was also born in this county, on November 25, 1846.
Joseph Wildes
Joseph Wildes was a native of England, where he was born in 1844. He came to Lawrence County in the year 1865. He was married in Elizabeth township, on October 12, 1865,
Samuel H. White
Samuel H. White commenced an active business life in his fourteenth year, and he has continued ever since. He has traveled over fourteen different States; he has clerked in the following places: Bellville, Virginia; Parkersburg, Virginia;
John A. White
John A. White and Augusta A. Haskell were married in Georgetown, Pennsylvania, on October 9, 1853. He was born in East Virginia, on October 14, 1835.
Dr. John Fletcher White
Dr. John Fletcher White was born in Barboursville, West Virginia, on January 18, 1839. His parents are Samuel Lewis and Rebecca Wilson (Masterson) White. Mr. White was married in Centerville, Gallia County, Ohio, on August 14, 1862,