Edward Miller was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, in February 1752. In 1779, at the age of 27, he enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Augusta County, Virginia. He was captured and held as a...
Gallia County
Mysterious Disease in Greasy Ridge – 1848
Buchanan's Journal of Man, Vol. II, No. 5-November 1850Confessions of a Physician pages 153-155 A Singular and Fatal Disease Dr. C., of Lawrence County, Ohio, writes as follows: “In the month of...
Early Days of Symmes
My father, George Irwin, moved to the log house that stands on the farm of R. M. Wickline, in Symmes Township in December 1827. At that time, there were twelve or thirteen families in the township.
Daniel Waddell
Daniel Waddell was born in Gallia County, Ohio, on March 21, 1821. His father, John Waddell, who was born in 1778, and died May 1841, was the father of twenty-one children,
H. D. Stevenson
H. D. Stevenson and Mary A. Ward were married in Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1876. He was born in Morgan County, Kentucky, in 1851, and his wife in Gallia County, Ohio in 1857.
Jacob Souder
Jacob Souder was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1827. His parents are Jacob and Margaret Souder. He was married in Gallia County, Ohio,
John Sampson
John Sampson and Caroline Fowler were married in Gallia County, Ohio in 1844. He was born in this county, on December 9, 1821, and his wife was born
M. Reckard
M. Reckard was the son of Salmon and Susan (Stacy) Reckard; the former was born in Massachusetts, on 24 April 1798; he moved to Lawrence County, Ohio, in 1832, settling in Proctorville, there being...
Peras R. Polly
Peras R. Polly was a Judge of the Probate Court of Lawrence County, Ohio, who was born in Otsego County, New York, on May 5th, 1815. He was the third child in a family of ten children, whose parents were Daniel Polley and Mary (Holcomb) Polley. His father, a native of Massachusetts, followed through life the trade of millwright.
Stephen A. Massie
Stephen A. Massie was the seventh child of Jonathan and Margaret (Roach) Massie. He was born in Mason township on January 1, 1840. He lived with his parents until he was twenty-four years of age when he was married to Rebecca F. Fox, who was born Walnut township, Gallia county, Ohio, on June 29, 1843.
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.
Merritt E. Judd
Merrit E. Judd was born in this Township on November 11, 1839. His parents were William F. Judd, born May 15, 1810, died January 2, 1876, and Eliza (Gillett) Judd, born June 16, 1816. The Judds...
Farlon Ball
Farlon Ball was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, on April 10, 1816, and emigrated with his parents to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1818, where his father was engaged in blacksmithing. In 1833 they...
Fulks Family
JACOB1 FULKS was born July 18, 1800 in York County, Pennsylvania, and died June 04, 1888 in Rome Twp., Lawrence County, Ohio. He married KATHERINE STOKES in Pennsylvania.
Origin of Local Names
Author Unknown HOME HISTORY - FIRST THINGS - ORIGIN OF LOCAL NAMES &C. Ironton Register, June 21, 1888 Previous to 1817, Lawrence county was a part of Gallia and Scioto. It was organized in...