Greasy Ridge

Murder of Mary Young

On Sunday evening 12th inst., Mary Jane Young, a young unmarried woman died under such suspicious circumstances at Greasy Ridge in Lawrence County, Ohio that mention was made of the circumstances in the Gazette’s dispatches from Ironton, Ohio.

Mathilda Burcham

The Ironton Register of July 2, published at Ironton, Ohio, contained the subjoined article concerning the death of Mrs. Mathilda Burcham, grandmother of Mr. Louis Burcham who is situated at Wilbert in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. The obituary was handed a representative of the South by Mr. E.B. McCorkle who was born and raised in the same county as was Mr. Burcham, but didn’t meet him until they both came to Louisiana.

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