A private in the Second Virginia Cavalry turns out to be a woman named Jenny Prater, hailing from Lawrence county, in Ohio. She has been arrested and
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Major John McMahon
Major John McMahon, of this city, who has only recently passed his eighty-second birthday, is probably the only Mexican War pension in this section of
Hanging Rock Strike 1904
Two men were shot at Hanging Rock, a village just below here on the Ohio River, this afternoon as the result of the strike at the plant of the Hanging
Indian Guyan Bridge in Chesapeake, Ohio
Flood – photo of the swollen Indian Guyan creek, which empties into the Ohio River near Chesapeake, Ohio
on 17 February 1948. The single land bridge was under four feet of water, photo showing two boys in a canoe paddling across the bridge.
Flood of 1937 Ironton, Ohio Photos
Flood – 1937 Ironton, Ohio Photos
Charles Wilgus
We called on Mr. C. Wilgus, one of the oldest citizens in Quaker Bottom in Lawrence County, Ohio. Ironton Register, Thursday, September 8, 1887
Ye Olden Times 1819
Ye Olden Times – In a recent issue of the Register, a correspondent from West Virginia spoke of the early settler Ventraux. I find in looking over my “Notes of Early Settlers of Lawrence County” this statement: “In 1819 the first above Two Mile was Ventraux.
Daniel Brubaker’s Second Generation
Captain John D. Brubaker of the Steamer Reville was married February 17, 1885, Olive Alice Shute near Burlington, Ohio. Recorded in the Ironton Register.
Commodore William F. Davidson
Sketch of Commodore William F. Davidson - From a copy of the Northwest, we take the following sketch of an old Lawrence County BoyIronton Register, April 22, 1886 Commodore William F. Davidson,...
Cherokee National Council Citizenship Record of Hiram Wilson
Cherokee National Council Citizenship Record of Hiram Wilson, Wane County, WV 1894
Joshua Willis
Joshua Willis at the age of one hundred and three years, lacking a few days, died March 28th, 1869, at the residence of Eliza Willis, near Marion, Aid
Early Settlers and Pioneers
I believe Lawrence county was organized in 1816, though the townships were not named until later. Burlington was the first County Seat. David McLAUGHLIN (whose wife was my father’s sister, and who is now living in Proctorville, in her 91st year) helped to build the old court house in Burlington in 1817.
Ballard Family Bible
Ballard Family Bible Lawrence County, Ohio
Weaver Family Bible
Weaver Family Bible
Sisler Family Bible
Sisler Family Bible Lawrence County, Ohio