Martha J. Martin

Ironton Register, September 29, 1898 – “Hon. Wayne Ferguson and wife are the guests of Mrs. Ferguson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly – Kenova Reporter”

We never see the name of Wayne Ferguson that a Civil War incident does not intrude. In those days, especially the earlier days of the rebellion, war’s tumults were common along the river; and vague alarms came of rebels gathering here and there and meditating an attack on Ironton.

Published in the Ironton Register, on July 21, 1864, guerrillas raided Ohio to rob L.D. Russell’s store, at the mouth of Indian Guyan (Bradrick, Ohio). The article describes what occurred and the response from area residents. Jimmie Epling abstracted this story for The Lawrence Register website.

Reminiscences of Richmond During the Civil War was published on Dec. 21, 1899, and was abstracted by Peggy A. Wells for The Lawrence Register website. Southern people do not become reminiscent very...

John Zimmerman was my grandmother’s adopted father. After my grandmother’s mother died shortly after childbirth, her father, William C. Dillon, couldn’t

Winters, Isaac

Priv., Co. F, 10 Kentucky Cav.
Age 31 years
Appears on Company Muster-in Roll of the organization named above. Roll dated Covington, KY.,

John Wells, the son of Richard and Susannah (Hutchison) Wells, was born in Scott County, Virginia, about 1815. Coming to Kentucky with his parents in the 1820’s, he settled on Oak Log Fork of Daniel’s Creek where, on May 4, 1836, he entered a

A Lawrence Countian who gave his life for his county in the Battle of Scary, WV, in 1861 was later honored when the present Dick Lambert Post, National Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand...