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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 the Baptist Church and the Jones Cemetery this was prepared by Virgil...
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 this 24 July 1929, between George Koons, John Bryan, overseers of the...
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 the Jail in Lawrence County, Ohio SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 25...
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. C., I will say that the wolf story was related to me by the participant...
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 memories or old maps from decades ago. These towns suffered the same...
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 the 7th inst. at an assembly in Catlettsburg, as the following...
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, Hiram Hagerman, his wife, and two little children were coming down a steep...
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 an affidavit to a petition for a pension. Wilson was arraigned before...
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 mementos that remind Susan Spencer, 87, of her grandmother's...
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, seventy-one, a veteran of the Union Army and a pensioner, and Miss Mary...
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 - John Morgan, a Wetzel County, [WV] man, instituted a suit this...
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 Convention and Visitors Bureau/ Lawrence County Economic Development...
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 trying a case in a squire's court. They exchanged blows and were ordered...
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 morning at one o clock. The deceased came to Colorado from Lawrence...
Myrtle Tree Church
Biographical Review of Hancock County, Illinois, page 97 S. E. Harnest S.E. Harnest, a retired farmer living in Cartridge, was born in Champaign County, Ohio, on March 8, 1835. His parents were John and Anna Spitler Harnest. The former was born on September 20, 1797,...