The tenth month was a busy one for important events in this city years ago…It was on the first of October 1879 that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” showed at Union Hall,
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October Years Ago in Ironton, Ohio
The last week of October in years gone by left a record of many events occurring in the city…October 28 1863, Frank Neekamp opened a shoe store on second Street and the city hasn’t been without a Neekamp Shoe Store the past 102 years, operated by members of the same family.
The Anvil Chorus
A story in this column last week about the “Relic Room” at the home of Mr. And Mrs. Pierce Edwards is Sedgwick added another old relic to their already large souvenir collection…A small iron paperweight
Captain Curtis Scovell Kouns
Captain Curtis Scovell Kouns, a veteran steamboatman, known and popular for more than forty years in the Ohio, the Red River and the Mississippi navigation, died last evening at his residence
Anderson Rutledge Civil War Veteran
Anderson Rutledge lives at Hanging Rock, but during the war was with the 7th West Virginia Cavalry. He tells us that in November 1864 while a portion of his regiment was stationed at Guyandotte
John Phillips Civil War Veteran
The reporter of the Register strolled into John Phillips’ Buggy Works and get the proprietor to talking about the war. Mr. Phillips was in the 33rd Ohio, but a large part of the time served in that most romantic branch of the army – the Signal Corps.
Levi Henry Civil War Veteran
When the Register reporter accosted Levi Henry for a “Narrow Escape,” he said, “you are too late – Capt. Markin told mine, that’s what I had laid up for you if ever you struck me for an army remembrance.
D. T. Miles Civil War Veteran
Mr. D. T. Miles saw the war, fighting in the old 6th Ohio. He belonged to Company B; not the company the Lawrence County, [Ohio] boys were in, but he knew several of the Lawrence squad,
Capt. L. D. Markin Civil War Veteran
Capt. L. D. Markin was standing behind the counter of his new grocery, when the Register scribe tackled him for a “Narrow Escape.”
J. O. Bingham Civil War Veteran
J.O. Bingham was a member of the Ohio 1st of D and after when veteranized of Company A. He was in the service 4 years and 7 months, which was about as long as a fellow could get in. Col. Kinney first commanded the regiment, and afterwards the noted Col. Raynor.
R. N. Sanders Civil War Veteran
When we asked R.N. Sanders of Company B 2nd Virginia what his close call was, he quickly answered it took place near Lewisburg, West Virginia and the affair made a vivid impression on his memory, though he thought it wasn’t anything particularly startling.
Henry Woodfin Civil War Veteran
“Were you in the war?” asked the reporter, as he leaned back in one of the cozy chairs of Henry Woodfin’s parlor and addressed the proprietor himself.
Cyrus Palmer Civil War Veteran
“There” said Cyrus Palmer, at the G.A.R. fair, as we leaned over the railing at the relic department, “is a sash I took from a Rebel Gen. Tracy, at the Battle of Thompson’s Hill, or as some call it, Magnolia Hill, in Mississippi, on the first day of May 1863.”
Jos. A. Lesage Civil War Veteran
A sketch of the ‘Haps” and Mishaps’ of a dismounted cavalryman in front of Stuart’s Pursuing Troopers by Jos. A. Lesage Company G 1st West Virginia Cavalry.
Samuel Sparling Civil War Veteran
Samuel Sparling was a member of Company G 4th Ohio Cavalry. He went early into the war with Capt. Edwin Rogers. We haven’t found many of the boys of this gallant regiment and was consequently delighted when we found that it was in that organization that our old friend, Sam Sparling, did his fighting for the Union.