Western Home Journal Lawrence, KS February 10, 1859 Another Steamboat for the Kaw - the many friends and the business community at this and other points on the Kaw River will be glad to learn that...
Kansas
Blackwell Gang of Counterfeiter’s
Beasher Miller was a native of Ohio and on 17 Feb 1887, he was arrested for petit larceny and became an inmate in the Lawrence County, Ohio jail. Why I am including this story because In the column for discharge, the date was 14 May 1887 and he had run off from Blackwell Chain. After reading the following story, it sounds like Beasher (also spelled Beecher) Miller was also staying in our county jail, perhaps a witness against the Blackwell Gang.
Francis Russell
Francis Russell was born in Cabell County, West Virginia, on December 5, 1814. His parents were John and Patience Russell, the former who died in 1817. Francis Russel was married in this township, on February 28, 1836, to Lois Morrison,
Sherritts Ohio
Portsmouth Daily Times, Portsmouth, Ohio, 05 Jan 1924 Fire Destroys Store, Post office Mr. J. L. Richards, Ninth and Waller streets, received a message this morning telling of the total destruction...
John Payton
John Payton and Julia A. Marcum were married in Lawrence County, in 1837. Mr. Payton was born in Adams County, Ohio, in the year 1813, and came to this county at the age of four years, in 1817.
Dr. Manasses Litch
Dr. Manasses Litch and Rachel S. Meyers were married in Gallia County, Ohio, on December 11, 1836. He is a native of Bradford, Vermont, born October 9, 1811; she was born in Gallia County on October 4, 1817.
Levi J. Friel
Levi J. Friel was born in Harrison County, Virginia, on November 26, 1814. His parents are both natives of Virginia; his father, Jeremiah Friel, was born in Augustus County, that state, March 30,...
Kansas and Our County
Dr. Sloan and Ed. J. Sloan of Bartramsville, in this county, passed through here on the Fleetwood last Tuesday night, on their way to Kansas, where they intend to procure some land, settle and work out their fortunes. They are both high minded, intelligent young men and deserve success. We are sorry to lose them from this county. They take with them two horses and a wagon, and at St. Louis they will abandon railroads and rivers, and go it alone in their wagon.
The Dillon Family
In the Dillion Family – When “Sherm” Dillon prepared this narrative, he interviewed family members in Ohio and West Virginia, including my grandfather, Vincent F. Dillon, of South Point. In addition to whatever direct research, he may have done, he relied on family tales, stories, and memories which were not all verified. In this narrative “Sherm” Dillon references Thomas Dillon as the first of our line to come to America. After the distribution of this narrative in 1932, “Sherm” Dillon in association with at least one other family researcher, concluded that the Thomas Dillon, here referenced as our original ancestor and quite possibly found only in family interviews, and a Peter Dillin, discovered through research, were one and the same.
Jim Sherman alias Jim Talbott
The town of Caldwell Kansas is in the hands of six cowboys, and the officers are powerless to do anything. Mike Meagher, formerly Mayor of the city, but lately Marshal, is killed.
They Met in Wichita
Buckeye Lovers Meet in the City and are Married – At the Manhattan hotel last evening the marriage of Judge Elwood Payne of Chickasha, I.T., and Miss Delia E. Cone of Suiter, Ohio, was solemnized by Rev. E. Hamilton, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Chickasha. The happy couple were schoolmates in the Buckeye state, and afterwards teachers when the judge concluded to cast his fortunes with the great west, and two years ago settled at Chickasha, where he entered the practice of law.
Imes Revisiting 26 Jan 1891
REVISITING LAWRENCE COUNTY. FROM H. IMES Ironton Register, Feb. 5, 1891 Imes, Kan., Jan. 26, ’91 Editor Register: After leaving Burlington last August, I followed the public highway up the river to...
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?
Charles S. Gray
Charles Sedgwick Gray was born at Vesuvius Furnace, this county, February 20, 1869. The family moved to Huntington in 1875, and to Ironton in 1877, and