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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.
Early Furnace History
LAWRENCE COUNTY, OHIO, THE CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF EARLY TIMES. The Early Furnaces - The First Use of Hot Blast and its Success, Familiar Names. Thomas A. Walton Ironton Register, August 25, 1904. Pine Grove Furnace was built in 1828 by Andrew Ellison, Sr.,...
Walton Letter from Victoria Texas
INTERESTING LETTER FROM Thomas A. WALTON Ironton Register, March 30, 1905 Victoria, Texas, March 15. Editor Register: Little did I think when I talked with Capts. Wm. Wilson and Frank Payne about the battles they had in Texas and Mexico that I ever would be in Texas...
Walton Writes of Ohio People
Mr. Thomas Walton Writes of Ohio People He Has Met In the Far West. Ironton Register, January 4, 1906. The following letter from our old friend, T. A. Walton, who resided for years at La Belle, will be read with interest: Victoria, Texas, Dec. 18, 1905....
List of Early Officers
A HISTORY OF LAWRENCE CO. Thos. A. Walton. No. 14. Ironton Register, March 19, 1903. A continuation of the list of early officers of Lawrence county: CORONERS Edward Simmons Apr. 7, 1817 Perry Joel...
Early Prosecutors, Surveyors, and Recorders
A HISTORY OF LAWRENCE CO. Thos. A. Walton. No. 13. Ironton Register, March 12, 1903. Following is a continuation of the list of the early Prosecutors, Surveyors, and Recorders of Lawrence county, Ohio. This list was compiled by Thomas A. Walton and...
Early Elected Officers
A HISTORY OF LAWRENCE CO. Thos. A. Walton. No. 12 Ironton Register, Feb. 19, 1903 Following is a list of the county officers from the county organization up to recent years, with the time of election and township from which they were elected. In cases where the same...
Walton Early History 12 Feb 1902
A HISTORY OF LAWRENCE CO. Thos. A. Walton. No. 11 Ironton Register, February 12, 1903 (sic 1902, paper dated wrong) Last week was concluded with a lengthy list of the marriages in this county during the early part of the past century. They were taken from...
Mound Builders on Austin Farm
Notes of the early settlers of Lawrence county, Ohio,” and in it find the following: the Austin farm appeared to have been a battle ground, many large
Letter From Kansas
If Aunt Nelly Justice, near Arabia, is alive, ask her if she knows of anybody during the last seventy years, in Lawrence county, dying from copperhead or rattlesnake bite?
Daniel Brubaker’s Second Generation
Captain John D. Brubaker of the Steamer Reville was married February 17, 1885, Olive Alice Shute near Burlington, Ohio. Recorded in the Ironton Register.
Daniel Brubaker’s Descendants
Daniel Brubaker came west from the Shenandoah Valley on horseback with a bag of money hidden in his bed roll, to buy land in Perry Township, at the
Commodore William F. Davidson
Sketch of Commodore William F. Davidson - From a copy of the Northwest, we take the following sketch of an old Lawrence County BoyIronton Register, April 22, 1886 Commodore William F. Davidson, whose familiar face is presented in this issue of The Northwest, was born...
Gilruth on Early Settlers 18 July 1872
Note: The Rev. James Gilruth died before July 12, 1873, a year after publishing these stories, in Davenport, Iowa. He was an abolitionist and preacher of the Gospel. More on him later. July 18, 1872 In my last, having pursued the history of who settled in this or that...