Bazil D. Talbott was the son of Rev. Charles W. and Eliza (McMunn) Talbott, who settled in this county in 1855. The reverend gentleman was born in the state of Pennsylvania on September 28, 1791.
James P. Shipton was a Kentuckian by birth, born in Greenup County, on July 29, 1832. His father, Barnabas H. Shipton, was born in Westmoreland County, Maryland
John M. Rowe was a native of Noble County, Ohio, where he was born on May 18, 1848. He settled in this township and commenced the duties of a teacher in 1871.
George Thornton Scott was born in Greenup County, Kentucky, on March 14, 1849. He came to Ironton in 1869. He was educated at West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Lebron.
Memories of older residents who resided here during the days when Lawrence and Greenup county (KY) furnaces were in their heyday, will be stirred by the following obituary of Samuel C. Wurts, furnace man of past years.
James M. Deering was born in the county of Wayne, West Virginia, on December 27, 1814. His father, John Deering, senior, was born in 1769 in Stokes County, North Carolina; from there he removed to Cabell County, West Virginia; from there to Greenup County, Kentucky, and then to Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1830, where he died in 1843.
Lorenzo D. Morrison was a person thought considerably of in his county, as is shown by the number of times he has been elected to serve their interests. He was a county commissioner of Lawrence county in 1871. He was treasurer of Rome township for twelve consecutive years; was also a trustee of Rome township for several years.
John D. Currington is a native of Greenup County, Kentucky, where he was born on November 20, 1829; he came to this county in 1861. Mr. Curington’s father, Joseph, died February 4, 1872, and his...
Mr. Brewer, I believe, was originally from New York or Vermont, but for several years a resident of Ohio, in Scioto and Lawrence counties.
Two persons, named Collier and Davis, kidnapped a colored man in Lawrence County, Ohio, a few days ago.
The Rev. James Gilruth died before July 12, 1873, a year after publishing these stories, in Davenport, Iowa. He was an abolitionist and preacher. This article was published in the Ironton Register...
Judge John Davisson was born in Maryland in 1777, came to Ohio and about 1801 settled on a tract of land beginning with the south bank of Storms Creek,