It is almost a settled fact that the missing girl, Miss Belle Wilks whose remarkably mysterious disappearance from her home in Lawrence County was chronicled in yesterday’s Enquirer, is not in this city. 11 May 1892
Stories
Duel of Amazons in Athalia Ohio 1889
News has just reached here of a terrible duel between two young women near Athalia a village twenty miles from here, last Sunday night. Bettie Bower and Julia Rucker got into a dispute
Powellsville, Lawrence County Ohio
Powellsville, Lawrence County, Ohio is situated on Poplar Fork, a branch of Pine Creek, by which it is flanked on the west, and on the east by a range of
Pine Creek News
Pine Creek – Elizabeth, Decatur and Rome Townships. Pine Creek was named for Capt. John Pine who had his camp at the forks of the creek in the edge of Lawrence County.
Booker Smith and Daniel Hankins Jr. Fisticuffs
Booker Smith & Daniel Hankins Jr. were found guilty of the crime of fighting in Lawrence County, Ohio 3 Sept. 1828. Send to jail for 5 days and pay costs.
Researching Various Names
This article suggests that the traces are often in plain view. If you are looking for that needle in a haystack, it helps to know what it looks like. And if figuratively, you’re holding your name in one hand and looking through the records for names like it. You notice there is a problem.
FBI Holds 47 In Ironton, Ohio
FBI agents swept up 47 prisoners in a sudden smash late last night at what it called far-flung white slavery operations centering at Ironton, Ohio.
Incidents of Pioneer Life in Burlington, Ohio
Many years ago when Ohio was neutral ground, claimed by the rival parties, the English, French and the Indians, a man by the name of Lynd lived over the
Burlington, Ohio Once an Urban Center 1800’s
The 1850 census recorded a total of 1,111 residents in the bustling township. Unlike the townships we have covered thus far in our series, Fayette
Burlington, Ohio Jail
Shortly after Lawrence County was organized by Capt. James LAWRENCE of Burlington, N.J., in 1816, a courthouse and jail were erected and a park laid out
Letter from Burlington, Ohio 1891
Lives there a man or child near or far around, who has not heard of Burlington, [Ohio]? The town which was once the abode of greatness, and the
Burlington, Ohio Jail History
While at Burlington last week we visited for the first time the jail of Lawrence county, Ohio. The jail is nearly new, it being but two or three years
Burlington, Ohio Origin of Name 1817
Burlington, Ohio was named by E. B. Greene and Carpus Clark for Burlington, Vt., and Carpus Clark and S. M. Browning named Burlington, Iowa, for our
Burlington, Ohio 1816
When Ohio was admitted to the Union in 1803, more people lived in the vicinity of Burlington than elsewhere in this section … When Lawrence county was
Who Killed Andrew Boggs 1836
About sixty years ago there moved to what is now called Macedonia, a colored man named Andrew Boggs or Box, as the people called him. He came from North Carolina and had the blood of three races in his veins white, black, and red. His wife was almost white.