The Stewart Family This was written by the late R.C. Hall, Ph. D., who was writing a complete series covering Lawrence County and Ironton but was claimed by death before completing the work. His...
Martha J. Martin
Jones Family of Athalia
LAWRENCE COUNTY YESTERYEARS (unknown newspaper article with picture) Sept. 11, 1976 (The following story of the Jones family settling in the Athalia area during the Civil War and establishment of...
John Pigman Apprentice of William Miller 1829
James Pigman by the Overseers of the Poor of Fayette Township to William Miller, Master - Indenture Apprentice Lawrence County, Ohio, Deed 5, page 223 (typed as written) This Indenture made...
James Adkins Confessed to Murder in Missouri
Confessed and Denied MurderAn Ohio Man Claimed to Have Killed Preacher MooreBROUGHT BACK TO MISSOURI - NOW HE LAUGHS AT THE AUTHORITIESJames Adkins Says He Only Made the Claim in Order to Get Out of...
Old Mills of Long Ago
Mills of Long Ago Ironton Register 14. Nov. 1895 For the Register.B. F. C. has taken exception to some of my incidents and dates and discredits my wolf story. Well, for the benefit of B. F....
Abandoned Towns
Many Abandoned Towns Dot the Lawrence County Landscape 6 May 1986 – Newspaper Unknown Hallows hide the remains of dozens of tiny Lawrence County towns, now forgotten except by people with long...
Crawford – Kouns Family
Four Generations Represented Ceredo Advance, 22 Mar 1893, Page 1 It seldom happens that members of the same family, representing four generations, are permitted to assemble, but such was the case on...
Hagerman’s Accident
Over a Cliff - Went to A Party, and Hagerman and Wife Will Probably Died Gazette-News-Current, Xenia, Ohio, 14 July 1897, pg 6 - Huntington, WV, July 13 - At Getaway, Ohio, this morning,...
Russell’s Place News
Charged With Perjury Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 1888, pg 5 - Deputy Marshal Costello returned from Russell Place, Ohio, with George Wilson, whom he had arrested on the charge of sweary falsely to...
Susan Spencer
Susan Spencer, a Direct Descendant to Share Slaves' Unusual Story Written by Melissa Rake For the Herald-Dispatch 4 April 1994 A copper kettle, a book, and some amazing stories. Those are the only...
War Veteran Weds Girl of Seventeen
Hinton, West Virginia · Tuesday, December 10, 1912 War Veteran Weds Girl of Seventeen - Romance Where Old Man Claims Beauty for Bride - His Ways are Winning - Huntington, Dec. 9 - Gideon Bragg,...
Captain Morgan’s Marriage
May and December Wheeling Sunday Register, 21 May 1893, page 1 John Morgan's Brother Want the Money He Left to His Pretty Young Wife Special Telegram to the Sunday Register - Huntington, WV, May 20...
Burlington Macedonia Church Project
Lawrence County Convention and Visitors Bureau/ Lawrence County Economic Development CorporationReceives $1.5 million from Appalachian Regional Commission’s POWER Initiative The Lawrence County...
Ironton Lawyers Have a Fistfight
Ironton Lawyers Have Fist Fight Portsmouth Daily Times, 19 Jan. 1911 Attorney's Jed. B. Bibbee and Ezra Dean, landing lights of the Ironton bar, allowed their angry passions to rise while...
Death of William Holroyd
Gunnison Colorado Review 30 April 1883Death of Wm. W. Holroyd The public will be pained to learn of the death of Mr. Wm. W. Holroyd of typhoid fever, which occurred in this city at Newport this...