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Moonshine Stories 1933
Newton Roth of Lawrence County, Ohio pleaded guilty to an “Information” and was given a suspended sentence of nine months in jail for violating the national prohibition act. Dayton Herald 2 June 1933
Moonshine Stories 1932
Moonshine 1932 – Proctorville, Ohio – The village of Proctorville was without its “police force” as a result of a raid by federal dry agents. Marshal Orville Carson, his deputy, Melvin Ness, and Ben Dunsee, township constable were in jail at Portsmouth in default of $10,000 bond each, awaiting hearing on liquor charges.
Moonshine Stories 1931
Shot during a moonshine raid in 1931, Jack Dalton, 45, elected marshal of Coal Grove, Ohio, was wounded in the left arm and side Friday afternoon. Dalton is in an Ironton, Ohio, hospital and will recover. Dalton was accompanied by E. L. Smith, federal agent, when the shooting occurred.
Captain E. G. Foster
Captain E. G. Foster was born in Clairmont, Va., of a mother from New Jersey and a father who was a civil engineer and a native of Rochester, NY., the “captain” spent most of his boyhood in Lawrence County, Ohio.
Accident of Isaac Thacker
June 30, 1904 – The most serious accident of Isaac Thacker living over the river near Bradrick Chapel at the American Car and Foundry Company in Huntington
Dr. Andrew Clark Lowrey
Dr. A. C. Lowrey, president Marting Iron & Steel Co., Ironton, Ohio, died in that city March 1, after a long illness. He was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, 54 years ago and was graduated in medicine from the Eclectic College, Cincinnati.
Moonshine Stories 1930
Conspiracy, manufacture, possession of liquor and a moonshine still and conduct of a nuisance at Greasy Ridge, Ohio, is charged against Dustin and Warren Goodall, Howell Neal, Herman Hawthorne and Russell Adkins, Greasy Ridge, Lawrence County, Ohio
Moonshine Stories 1929
Four alleged moonshiners were caught in the act of operating a huge still on the banks of the Ohio river near Haverhill Tuesday evening by county officers
Moonshine Stories 1928
With few exceptions, all persons arraigned yesterday to answer to Indictments returned against them by the recent Federal grand Jury were from Ironton and Lawrence County, Ohio.
Moonshine Stories 1927
Mat. C. Wilson federal dry agent, of lronton and formerly located here with federal and US prohibition agents, is in a serious condition. In the Kessler-Hatfield hospital at Huntington, as the result of burns sustained Thursday afternoon about two o’clock while destroying a still near Bradrick on Greasy Ridge road near Proctorville, Lawrence county.
Moonshine Stories 1926
An ingenious underground moonshine plant, almost impregnable against discovery, was unearthed early yesterday by Federal Prohibition Agents Homer Joy and Mack. B. Lilly,
Crawford Family
JAMES CRAWFORD was born Dec. 6, 1804, married Feb. 10, 1829 Nancy Kouns, dau. of George and Catherine Kouns. His father, James Crawford, was a native of Donegal, Ireland
Moonshine Stories 1925
With Grand Jury in session and composed of several women, it was indeed a bad time to be trifling with “Mountain Dew” but that didn’t seem to worry James Isom, 40
Moonshine Stories 1924
The outrages are said to be result of a crusade against Lawrence County, Ohio moonshiners and bootleggers. Mrs. Shultz alleges she was threatened Saturday when she reported that liquor runners were speeding their automobiles past her home.
Moonshine Stories 1923
In a moonshine raid on a shanty boat anchored in the Ohio river at the mouth of Turkey Creek Saturday night, county officers seized a seventy gallon capacity copper still destroyed twenty barrels containing fermentation and arrested John
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