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Rev. Carpus Clark Sperry
Rev. Carpus Clark Sperry was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, October 8, 1830. He moved to Iowa in 1840 and there embraced the Baptist faith. He was
Blood Near Petersburg
BLOOD NEAR PETERSBURG Ironton Register, December 27, 1888 Note from editors: Petersburg is now known as Coal Grove, Ohio. Last Monday night, while the Memorial Church Sunday school, just below Petersburg, was enjoying their Christmas eve festivities and were filling...
Texas Hollow Tragedy
Texas Hollow – About 12 o’clock, last Saturday night, W. E. Boothe shot himself dead, after shooting at, with attempt to kill, Mrs. Montgomery, his step mother-in-law and Mrs. Willis, her daughter. This tragedy occurred at Texas Hollow, near the Belfont scales.
Charles Campbell
Charles Campbell son of John Campbell, founder of Ironton
Elizabeth Caldwell Clarke Campbell
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Campbell, daughter of James Clark and Mary Ellison, was born at Manchester, O., April 15, 1815, and died at Ironton, O., Nov. 19, 1893.
Lillian Neal Hunter
MISS LILLIAN NEAL is now Mrs. Gordan Hunter. The marriage occurred at Paris, on the 11th, or rather on the 11th and 12th. On the first day the civil
Valentine and Mary Fear Petition to Sell Land
Valentine and Mary Fear-Petition to Sell Land Lawrence County, Ohio 6 Nov. 1839
Robert G. Fulton Died 1856
These deeds pertain to the Fulton Farm and the heirs of Robert G. Fulton who died intestate and without issue and his sister Jane Ann (Fulton) Craig. Lots of great genealogical information.1856 Lawrence County, Ohio
James Ferguson* Emancipated Slaves 1849
James Ferguson [should be James Twyman-mm] Emancipated Slaves 1849 Lawrence County, Ohio. Isaac Frampton and wife Jane of Wayne Co., Va, for $6,000 paid by Simeon,
William A. Ferguson Emancipated Slaves
In this deed the emancipated slaves acknowledge receipt of monies ‘by the hands of William A. Ferguson’. Anthony Ferguson and William A. Ferguson, executors for the estate of James Ferguson, deceased, of Madison Co., Virginia. 1850
William D. Kelley Sells Land
William D. Kelley Sells Lawrence County Ohio Land 19 Sept. 1846 to George W. Kelley, Allen Kelly, Nathaniel Kelley, Mary Kelley, Thomas Kelley, James Richey,
Thompson Cemetery
Thompson Cemetery Inscriptions – Symmes Township, Lawrence County, Ohio
Diary of Charles H. Ralph
Names from the Diaries of Charles H. Ralph – Lawrence County Ohio
Kouns Cemetery
Whereas A.P. Kouns Sen., G. L. Kouns, John Kouns, Benjamin Kouns, A.P. Kouns Jun., John C. Shute, Isaac Kouns, D.B. Chatfield, J.G. Shute and G. K. Crawford, citizens of Lawrence County and State of Ohio, did on the Eighth day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty fiv
Deed: Andrew J. Tresdell Sells Land to Wm. J. Kenney
Andrew J. Tresdell Sells Land to Wm. J. Kenney Lawrence County, Ohio Deed Book 15, page 174 on 15 Feb. 1854