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Tidbits of Ironton’s History
ANCIENT HISTORY OF OUR CITY FROM REGISTER FILES. Early Masons - Briggs Library - Marriages and Deaths - Proud of the Register. (Author not named) Ironton Register, March 9, 1905. February 12, 1852. - Among the advertisements of Ironton’s first lawyers appear the...
Voting in 1832
OLD DOCUMENTS. VOTING IN THE COUNTY SIXTY YEARS AGO. A Few Names and Some Candidates. Author Unknown. Ironton Register, February 19, 1891 Under the Judge’s table at the Court House was a pile of old papers that the Register man happened to knock over, and out tumbled...
Origin of Local Names
Author Unknown HOME HISTORY - FIRST THINGS - ORIGIN OF LOCAL NAMES &C. Ironton Register, June 21, 1888 Previous to 1817, Lawrence county was a part of Gallia and Scioto. It was organized in March of that year, with Burlington as the county seat, which was also the...
Early Marriages
A HISTORY OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, OHIO. Thomas A. Walton. No. 9 Ironton Register, January 29, 1902 Following is a continuation of the list of early marriages in Lawrence county, Ohio: July 10, 1819. Leroy Garrett to Elizabeth Allison, by Thos. Kerr, J. P. July 11, 1819. ...
Walton Early History 15 Jan 1902
COUNTY HISTORY Directory of Old Burlington Court - The First Marriage No. 7 Ironton Register, Jan. 15, 1902 Hammond Howe finished the Burlington courthouse and received his pay on August 6, 1839, at a special session of the county commissioners. C. Scoville and...
Walton Early History 8 Jan 1902
COUNTY HISTORY. Interesting Items Gleaned From the Old Records. No. 6. (Continued.) Ironton Register, January 8, 1902. Following is a list of some of the payments made to the county for various purposes during the years of 1819 and 1820: W. G. Robinson,...
Walton Early History 18 Dec 1902
COUNTY HISTORY. More Extracts From Records of First Board of Commissioners. No. 5 (note he had two No. 5’s - smk) (To be continued.) Ironton Register, December 18, 1902. The records of the first board of commissioners of Lawrence county are followed out...
Commissioner’s Board 1817
COUNTY HISTORY. Additional Notes of Commissioners’ Doings in 1817. No. 5. (To be continued.) Ironton Register, December 11, 1902. On Wednesday, June 4, 1817, the Commissioner's Board met under adjournment as yesterday. On Petition for a new road to begin at Abraham...
Commissioners Minutes 1817
COUNTY HISTORY. Record of Contract Awarded for the Burlington “Jail House.” No. 4. (Continued from last week.) Believed to be by Thomas A. Walton Ironton Register, December 4, 1902. The second session of the first board of commissioners of Lawrence county was begun on...
1820 Rules of the Court
LAWRENCE COUNTY Its Early History as Told by an Old Resident (believed to be the series of T. A. Walton - smk) No. 3 (Continued from last week.) Ironton Register, November 27, 1902 (check date - smk) In 1820, at the commencement of the spring session of Common Pleas...
Early Marriages 1821-1923
A HISTORY OF LAWRENCE CO. Thos. A. Walton. No. 10 Ironton Register, February 5, 1902 A continuation of the list of early marriages with one certificate where the humorous and the serious are blended. July 19, 1821. Thomas Canter, Jr., to Anny Canter, by P. Wakefield,...
Early Marriages 1819-1821
A HISTORY OF LAWRENCE CO. Copyrighted by Thos. A. Walton. No. 9 Ironton Register, January 29, 1902 Following is a continuation of the list of early marriages in Lawrence county: July 10, 1819. Leroy Garrett to Elizabeth Allison, by Thos. Kerr, J. P. July 11, 1819. ...
Walton Early Marriages
A HISTORY OF LAWRENCE COUNTY, OHIO Thomas A. Walton No. 8 Ironton Register, January 22, 1902 I hereby give a list of the marriage returns with the date of and by whom they married: June 27, 1817. Samuel Hensley to Katherine Leftridge, by James Webb, J. P....
First Sunday School
About 1825 or 1826, at Haskellville, as near as I can ascertain, the first Sunday School or class was taught by Thomas Walton. He, in 1831, moved to the Rome farm, and there taught a class on Sundays, during the Summer time, and about 1840 or 1842
Ye Olden Times 1819
Ye Olden Times – In a recent issue of the Register, a correspondent from West Virginia spoke of the early settler Ventraux. I find in looking over my “Notes of Early Settlers of Lawrence County” this statement: “In 1819 the first above Two Mile was Ventraux.