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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...
Early Manners and Customs
EARLY MANNERS, CUSTOMS, ETC. Luke Kelley's Reminiscences #3Submitted by Bob DavissonIronton Register August 10, 1854 Mr. Kelley relates that the first settlers of this region were all peaceable, industrious, temperate, and well-disposed people--would mind their own...
Thomas Baldwin WW1 Hero
Pvt. Thomas Baldwin was in Company K, 9th Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, on July 18, 1918. After all of the other platoon, runners had been killed or wounded by machine guns and shell fire, and he had been seriously wounded, Pvt....
John S. George
John S. George, the chief representative of the interests of the Chicago & North-Western Railway company in Milwaukee, is a man whose responsible position and extensive business interests outside of railway affairs have made him one the well-known citizens of this...
William Cole Frailey
William Cole Frailey, iron master, Ironton, Ohio, was born in Fredericktown, Maryland, on October 28th, 1829. His parents were Christian Frailey and Elizabeth Hopeman, the former of Pennsylvania and the latter of Missouri. His father was a Maryland planter but never owned slaves, being a Whig in politics.
Gas Explosion at St. Lawrence School
Gas, which had accumulated in the cellar of St. Lawrence School, Ironton, Ohio, exploded, resulting in the fatal injury of Elizabeth Haas,
Kelleyites in Ohio
The towboat Spurlock arrived here about noon Wednesday, having disposed of its cargo of Kelleyites, and started to return the borrowed barge to the Buena Vista Freestone Company. The gang was dumped into Gallia County, Ohio, near Lawrence County, Ohio.
Henry and Lewis Carter Arrested
Lewis and Henry Carter, of Lawrence County, Ohio, father and son, were tried in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Leavett, on a charge of preventing colored men from voting. This is the first trial had under the Law of Congress of May, last.
Murder Mystery 1933
Mystery veils the third tragedy involving Mrs. Nan Patterson Moreland, 30, Ironton, Ohio, found dead in her beer flat, with John Porter, 37, Lawrence County, Ohio, prosecuting attorney, eyes shot out, lying in the same room.
Novel Tomb in Ohio
A novel tomb at Hanging Rock, Ohio in Lawrence County, Ohio, in the middle of last century, attracted so many of the curious that it had to be removed along with the corpse. At his request, a wealthy Ironmaster was Interred In an iron coffin placed two feet above the ground on Iron pillars, and a wooden building was built around the coffin. Crowds poured in from all directions to see this strange tomb until the building was finally removed and the coffin buried in a grave near the place.
About Uncle Purl Willis
An interesting story about a Lawrence Countian comes to us from his nephew, Brady Willis, of Forest Dale, the old schoolmaster…..It concerns Purl Willis, 87 of 130 Lathrop Lane, El Cajon, California, who left Lawrence County in 1910, lured by the Golden West…He was a Spanish-American War veteran and was captain of Company I in Ironton…A story in the San Diego newspaper adds another chapter to Capt. Willis’ story.
Recollections of Ironton
My first acquaintance with it was in the spring of 1853 when as a boy of nine years old, I was brought over from Wales and started to grow into the spirit and stature of an American. The first school I attended was in the second story of part of the block where D. C. Davies now holds forth.