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John E. Bingaman
John E. Bingaman This representative businessman and popular citizen of Ironton, the judicial center of Lawrence County, has been a resident of this city for the past twenty-five years and has, by ability and well-directed endeavor, gained precedence and success as a...
Matthew Hamilton Butcher
Descendants of Matthew Hamilton Butcher I Submitted by: Richard Hale Generation No. 1 1. MATTHEW HAMILTON1 BUTCHER I was born 1812 in Clarksburg, (W)Va, and died 7/18/1883 in Proctorville, Lawrence County Ohio, page 272 of Record of Deaths. He married...
Capt. William T. Scoville
Capt. W. T. Scovell Death In Jeffersonville of The Red River Veteran. Sketch of an Old-Time Steamboatman Whom Stonewall Jackson Honored and Relied Upon as a Soldier. SOURCE: The Times-Democrat, New Orleans, Louisiana, Tuesday, July 2, 1895 Jeffersonville, Ind., July...
Agriculture
County Agent Worked To Increase Yield Per Acre World War I Shortages Place Demands on County Ironton Tribune Submitted by Lorna Marks Here is how O. D. SMITH started his report of activities as a county agent for the calendar year 1918: "The agriculture in Lawrence...
Low Gap Cemetery
Low Gap Cemetery is located on Route 243 at Bradrick. This cemetery was read in 1999 by Julian Barnett, Perry Campbell, and Tom Clutters. You can find that link here. Since this cemetery was read, headstones probably are no longer visible due to the weather,...
Mrs. Hester Aiden Obit
Another Pioneer Woman is Dead The Oregon Sunday Journal, Feb. 6, 1916, page 4 In the passing away of Mrs. Hester Aiken at her daughter's residence, Mrs. J. J. Sirey of 290 Thirteenth Street, Friday, February 4, Oregon loses another of the hardy pioneer women who...
Homer McCoy
The Inter Ocean, 29 April 1914, page 6 Homer Wirt McCoy, a bond dealer, was born in Sheridan, Ohio, on 29 April 1859. He received a collegiate and university education and began his business career in the wholesale drug business at Peoria, Ill., in 1880. He connected...
Hagerman – Hagerman Family
Genealogy of the Hagerman - Hagaman Family a pioneer family which settled in Lawrence County, Ohio. Written and compiled by Benjamin Franklin Hagaman Benjamin Franklin Hagaman was the grandson of John, now in my 88th year. This booklet was written with the help of my...
Eliza Wortman Obit
Obituary of Mrs. Eliza A. WortmanMorning Oregonian., September 16, 1914, Page 4 Mrs. Eliza A. [Stumbo] Wortman, the widow of the late Jacob Wortman and mother of H. C. Wortman of the firm of Olds, Wortman & King, died yesterday at her home in McMinnville....
Trunk Presents Mystery
Truck Presents MysteryOwner Dead Before Baggage is Left at Hotel by Man Using His Name The Morning Oregonian, April 14, 1915 The mystery of a trunk that was left at the Royal Palm Hotel, Third and Flanders Streets, Feb. 2, by J. C. Wilson, of Chesapeake, Lawrence...
John M. Van Horne
John M. Van Horne, candidate for City CommissionerMorning Oregonian, October 12, 1922 Mr. Van Horne was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1881 and has been a resident of Oregon since 1905. Prior to coming to this state, he was mayor of Coal Grove, Ohio, resigning from...
Nettie May Pemberton Obit
Roseburg News, Roseburg, OR , Monday, April 6, 1925 Winston Resident Passes Sunday Nettie May Pemberton, the wife of Wesley Pemberton, passed away Sunday evening after a prolonged illness at the home of her sister Mrs. Frank Pemberton at Winston, where the family has...
Traveler Smith Obit
Freed Enslaved Person Dead The Capital Terminal, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, September 2, 1931 Huntington, WV. - Traveler Smith, 82-year-old, who was one of a group of enslaved people freed by their masters and given land in Lawrence County, Ohio, died here recently....
Books by Carrie Eldridge
Historical and Genealogical Books for Sale by Carrie Eldridge, author, teacher, geographer, speaker, and historical of Cabell County, WV, and the tri-state areas. Her experience is mostly researching African American History in the area surrounding Lawrence County,...
Blackfork School
TEACHERS SUE FOR SALARIESFormer Blackfork Coach In Principal In SuitSubmitted by Peggy A. Wells Ironton Tribune, 17 March 1932, Thursday, Page 10 At least two cases are pending in local courts due to non-payment of teachers’ salaries. It became known today. One action...