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T. C. Bridwell
T. C. Bridwell, ex-mayor, and a prominent citizen of Evansville, is a native of Lawrence County, Ohio, Where he was born February 18, 1841, and is the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Combs) Bridwell.
Eliza Boynton 99 Years Old
Mrs. Eliza Boynton, who formerly resided in Lawrence county, Ohio, and who taught school at Haverhill, Ohio, recently celebrated her 99th birthday anniversary. After leaving this vicinity Mrs. Boynton took up residence in Salem,
Isaac Booth
ISAAC BOOTH was born in Union township November 30, 1829; his father, Robert Booth, was born in East Virginia in 1792. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He immigrated to Lawrence county in 1816,
Benjamin F. Boggs
Benjamin F. Boggs was born in Lawrence County, Ohio. His father’s families were residents of southern Ohio. His ancestors on his mother’s side were of Scottish origin, and came to America during the Colonial period, settling in Pendleton County, VA.
Edgar T. Belcher
E. T. Belcher was born near Willow-Wood P.O., Lawrence County, December 13, 1867. He received his education in the public schools of Ironton and afterward was engaged as traveling salesman with Wm. Kerr
William H. Baldwin
Judge Baldwin was born in Ohio, July 23, 1849, reared to farm pursuits, and received his higher education at Lebanon, a popular old school of Virginia. He is a son of William M. and Jeston (Young) Baldwin,
Thomas J. Allison
Thomas J. Allison remained at home assisting to till the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He then learned the trade of a stone-cutter, serving two years, for which he received fifty cents per day. He worked
Thomas Walton Writes a Letter to England
Mr. Thomas A. Walton, of Quaker Bottom, Lawrence County, Ohio, thinking that he could give some useful information to intending emigrants who read the York Herald which frequently comes into his (the Virginian’s) hands and greatly interests him – sends us the following communication
Moonshine Stories 1959
Last October, more moonshine stills were confiscated in Ohio than in West Virginia which long has been a butt of jokes and cartoons on the bottling of “mountain dew.”
Moonshine Stories 1953
Three Stills Found in Hills Near Ironton - Federal agents and Sheriff Carl Rose of Lawrence County, Ohio, raided three moonshine stills in the hills near the Ohio River Friday, the first such raid near Ironton in more than a year. The agents, secretly watching the...
Moonshine Stories 1951
Clyde Adkins of Greasy Ridge, Ohio, had what federal alcohol tax agents described as a thriving moonshine, business. Agents said he made the brew in a 110-gallon still on his farm, trucked it to Huntington, and then sold
Moonshine Stories 1940
Moonshine Stories 1940 – On motion of Charles M. Love, Jr, Assistant United States District Attorney, the court released Clovis Adkins, Denver Harmon, and Granville Brammer, all of near Greasy Ridge, Lawrence County, Ohio.
Moonshine Stories 1938
Two Bound Over in Liquor Cases Pike Countian [Ohio] in Jail; Oakley Montgomery Out on $2,000 Bond Two men were held for Federal Grand Jury investigation Tuesday when arraigned before J. Julian Synder, United States Commissioner. James McClay 41 of Pike county, Ohio,...
Moonshine Stories 1937
Moonshine 1937 – Fourteen persons were nabbed in a raid on a Third street home in Ironton, Ohio, Saturday. Mae Davis Lewis is charged with having untaxed whisky in her possession.
Moonshine Stories 1936
Moonshine 1936 – Federal agents here, operating in Lawrence county, destroyed a 60-gallon still, which they uncovered in Boneyard Hollow near Ironton. No arrests were made