Mr. C. A. Alderman, the senior member of the firm of C. Alderman & Son, has had a practical experience in the dry goods business covering a period of
Pioneers & Profiles
Josiah Lambert
Josiah Lambert was born about 1744 in New Jersey. His parentage is uncertain. His father may have been named Daniel. Of his early life little is known,
Major Jeremiah Davidson
Major Jeremiah Davidson was badly wounded on the 24th of July, 1894, near Winchester, Va. The circumstances surrounding his misfortune were of a character
Peter and Keziah Burns Wakefield
(2449) Peter Wakefield, son of Peter and Keziah (Burns) Wakefield, was born on Sept. 24, 1794. (2398) Elhanen Winchester Wakefield, son of Peter and Keziah (Burns) Wakefield, was born Aug. 1, 1799,...
Joseph and Relief Wakefield
Joseph Wakefield who as reputed was a Rev. soldier of the US and died on the 27 day of May 1827 leaving surviving him, Relief WAKEFIELD and that Peter,
Julia Marlowe
When the famous actress Julia Marlowe was a familiar figure to Irontonians she was a wisp of a child, about five years old. Her family, the Broughs, was a
John Connelly Reminiscences
John Connelly reminiscences about coming to the town of Ironton in 1849 , and the great mineral wealth of the Hanging Rock iron region, took passage on
Lucinda Baptist Church
The above picture shows a group at the Lucinda Chapel Baptist Church, Lawrence Co., Ohio, ca. in the late 1890s. The lower left, home of John and Lucinda (Webb) Jones on Wolf Creek (built ca.1810)....
Theodore Wilson
Theodore Wilson was born in slavery, denied the advantages of modern schooling, persecuted by bigoted Negro haters, seriously injured in his youth, he
Kouns Family
The Kouns Family of Lawrence county, Ohio, is one of the first settlers and is connected to many other early families of southern Ohio.
Elijah F. Gillen Letters
The following are two letters from Elijah F. Gillen dated 10 July 1892 and 18 April 1893, Proctorville, Ohio. At the bottom of those two letters, there is another letter written by Mary E. Moss...
Windsor Township
Windsor Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, lies just north of Union, and west of the northern part of Rome Township. Some Pioneers of Windsor Township were the Earles and Cade Families who ‘Went West’ to Settle in the Ohio wilderness.
Anderson Family
D. P. Anderson has just received a beautiful piece of sculpture work for Dr. O. Ellison, to be placed in Woodland cemetery at the grave of little Richard Ellison, the two year old son of Dr. and Mrs. Ellison, who died in August, 1881.
Dr. Benjamin Merrill Rickets
“I’ll have no minister, no priest, no humbug. Cremate my body and scatter the ashes over the graves of my mother and father.” Dr. Benjamin Merrill Rickets
Joseph W. Mobley
Joseph W. Moberly’s young days were spent upon his father’s farm in Ohio, and when he was in his twentieth year, he married Miss Mary Caldwell in Lawrence County, Ohio.