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Missouri
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.
Capt. J.W. Earles
After forty-eight years in Webb City, Capt. J. W. Earles age 91 years of 111 south Ball Street passed away from infirmities incident to age.
George W. Schachleiter
George William Schachleiter was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in October 1843. In 1862 he settled in Ironton. He was steward and head waiter on steamboats and in principal hotels. In 1867
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.
Thomas J. Allison
Thomas J. Allison remained at home assisting to till the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He then learned the trade of a stone-cutter, serving two years, for which he received fifty cents per day. He worked
William P. Ellison
“My name is William P. Ellison,” said he to a Republic reporter, “and I live on my farm, two miles from Robertson, Franklin county, forty-one miles west of St. Louis. I was born in Burlington, Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1817,
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.
Jesse Arnott
Jesse Arnott, who has a place in history because he buried President Lincoln, has many relatives In Lawrence and Gallia Counties, especially In the Waterloo area. Among them are the Handleys, Stewarts, Wisemans and Nulls.
William Adkins
WILLIAM ADKINS – is a native of Kentucky, having been born in Boyd county, September 5, 1831; both of his parents were among the early settlers of Lawrence county, coming here in 1832;
David C. Beaman
David C. Beaman was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, on November 22, 1838, the son of Rev. Gamaliel C. and Amelia (Crichton) Beaman. His father, who was a native of Massachusetts, was a son of David Beaman, a selectman of his town; in youth he was given excellent educational advantages and prepared for college at Amherst Academy, later graduating from Union College, in Schenectady, New York, and 1831 completing the theological course at Andover. [Brother to James L. Beaman]
Obituary of Commodore W. F. Davidson
Commodore Davidson was born February 4, 1825, in Lawrence County, Ohio, his father being employed on the Ohio Canal, also giving a portion of his time to duties as a local Baptist preacher. The boy had scant opportunities for education, but took to his father’s avocation,
Gilruth on Early Settlers 16 May 1872
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. May 16, 1872 The...
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