This is a file of newspaper clippings of Sharon M. Kouns, with help from Martha J. Martin-Kounse. These stories were typed over many years of research in Lawrence County, Ohio. The clippings are in alphabetical order and cover both the Johnson and Johnston Families. We hope you can find something in these notes that will benefit your genealogy family.
Martha J. Martin
W.E.R. Kemp
W. E. R. Kemp carries a pocket comb that he has had 47 years. He bought it in June 1843, on the steamboat Mary Ann, on his way to Ironton, Ohio
Ironton Bank, Ironton, Ohio
The Ironton Bank Gives Down – 'calls Ironton a mob city' Buffalo Daily Republic, Buffalo, NY Nov. 28, 1857, p2. The Ironton Bank, through an organized mob called to its aid, repulsed Gen. E. B....
Luke Kelley Cemetery Inscriptions
Luke Kelley Cemetery Inscriptions
Section 9, Township 1, Range 19 West, Lawrence County, Ohio.
Submitted by Bob Davisson.
A Few More Facts From Luke Kelley
We again change the scene of Mr. Kelley’s reminiscences back upon Clinch River, in Russell [County], Va., and give, as having occurred under his own
Captain Harmon’s Battle
It was about the year 1791, might have been 1792, that Captain Lewis Harmon [also Harman, perhaps Hermann, perhaps Henry Harman] who lived on the Blue
A Few Facts
Mr. Kelley has been “celebrated” in his days for gigging. It is still his delight, although the fish are small compared with those in times gone by. He
The Van Bibbers
1799, James and Jacob Van Bibber, brothers of Peter, settled and built cabins just below the mouth of Ice Creek. The Van Bibbers were from the Kanawha.
Richard Deering
Richard Deering, an inventive genius, of a projecting disposition, who is sometimes called crazy. Mr. Deering is a tall and white headed old man who was
Mr. Music / Musick
In 1792 an express said that 14 Indians had, on that morning, killed Mr. Music [also Musick], who lived 10 miles up the river,
Mary Bush and Native Americans
James Coyle, an uncle, of Jesse and John Coyle of Franklin Furnace, was killed. Mary Bush captured.. William Dorton, a very expert woodsman,
William G. Robinson
The biography of William G. Robinson, therefore, belongs more properly perhaps to the history of Fayette Township than to any other in the county, since as an early county officer, he naturally had to spend much of his time at Burlington, then the County Seat. Some time ago, his granddaughter, Mrs. W. D. Hambleton, of near Ironton, informed us that she had evidence that he first resided near Haskellville, now Athalia, in Rome Township.
Facts and Incidents by Rev. John Kelley
A few days since we called upon Rev. John Kelley, just below Union Landing, for a talk, knowing that he was one of the early settlers of Lawrence
Lawrence County Ohio Mills
LAWRENCE COUNTY, OHIO MILLS Luke Kelley’s Reminiscences #3Submitted by Bob DavissonIronton Register August 10, 1854 Our readers will probably thank us for continuing the reminiscences of Rev. John...
Bear Hunting
One Fall, close by Pine Grove Furnace, Mr. Kelley says he killed a “monster bear,” the meat of which when baconed weighed over 300 lbs. and, said Mr.