James Porter was born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, on April 10, 1810. His father, William Porter, died in Pennsylvania in 1816. His mother, Mary (Smith) Porter, died in the same state in...
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Samuel C. Wurts
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.
George Heiner
Headstone Photos were taken in Woodland Cemetery in Ironton, Ohio, and courtesy of Matt Bice.George Heine* was born in Göttingen, Germany, on December 3, 1813. He was married in Alleghany County,...
Amos Griffith
Amos Griffith was born in Aid Township, on November 19, 1845, and married, December 5, 1869, to Mary Chalfant, who is a native of Pennsylvania, where she was born on September 23, 1851. The parents...
Lucian Troy Claybaugh
Lucian Troy Claybaugh, who has been a resident and postmaster of Donora, Pa., since the organization of that borough in 1900, was born February 3, 1856, in Ironton, Ohio, and is the son of Moses B. and Rebecca (Troy) Claybaugh.
William W. Davidson
William W. Davidson is now nearly 84 years old, and he is the oldest settler living in the county. He came here with his father in 1799, when he was only six months old. He was born in Fayette...
John D. Currington
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...
Richard D. Butler
Richard D. Butler and Sarah Kline were married on October 7, 1852. He was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1814, and his wife was born in Berks county, the same State. The parents of Mr....
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...
John Combs
Capt. John Combs died last Saturday and his funeral took place from the residence of Maj. Jere Davidson, Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. Rev. E. E. Moran conducted the funeral services, and the interment was at Woodland.
Isaac Booth
ISAAC BOOTH was born in Union township November 30, 1829; his father, Robert Booth, was born in East Virginia in 1792. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He immigrated to Lawrence county in 1816,
Crawford Family
JAMES CRAWFORD was born Dec. 6, 1804, married Feb. 10, 1829 Nancy Kouns, dau. of George and Catherine Kouns. His father, James Crawford, was a native of Donegal, Ireland
John K. Richards
John Kelvey Richards was born at Ironton, Ohio 15 March 1856.
Quakers in Southern Ohio
As readers of these columns know, we have referred quite often in the past to the early settlement of Friends, commonly known as “Quakers” on the site now occupied by the village of Proctorville, Ohio.
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.