Many Abandoned Towns Dot the Lawrence County Landscape 6 May 1986 – Newspaper Unknown Hallows hide the remains of dozens of tiny Lawrence County towns, now forgotten except by people with long...
Stories
Hagerman’s Accident
Over a Cliff - Went to A Party, and Hagerman and Wife Will Probably Died Gazette-News-Current, Xenia, Ohio, 14 July 1897, pg 6 - Huntington, WV, July 13 - At Getaway, Ohio, this morning,...
Russell’s Place News
Charged With Perjury Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 1888, pg 5 - Deputy Marshal Costello returned from Russell Place, Ohio, with George Wilson, whom he had arrested on the charge of sweary falsely to...
Susan Spencer
Susan Spencer, a Direct Descendant to Share Slaves' Unusual Story Written by Melissa Rake For the Herald-Dispatch 4 April 1994 A copper kettle, a book, and some amazing stories. Those are the only...
Blown Fifty Feet in the Air
Blown Fifty Feet in Air St. Catherines Standard 2 Aug. 1902, page one Huntington, WV. Aug. 1 - Jos. Hardesty, one of the best-known citizens of Lawrence County, Ohio, and whose home is near...
Trunk Presents Mystery
Truck Presents MysteryOwner Dead Before Baggage is Left at Hotel by Man Using His Name The Morning Oregonian, April 14, 1915 The mystery of a trunk that was left at the Royal Palm Hotel, Third and...
Traveler Smith Obit
Freed Enslaved Person Dead The Capital Terminal, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, September 2, 1931 Huntington, WV. - Traveler Smith, 82-year-old, who was one of a group of enslaved people freed by their...
Books by Carrie Eldridge
Historical and Genealogical Books for Sale by Carrie Eldridge, author, teacher, geographer, speaker, and historical of Cabell County, WV, and the tri-state areas. Her experience is mostly...
Early Manners and Customs
EARLY MANNERS, CUSTOMS, ETC. Luke Kelley's Reminiscences #3Submitted by Bob DavissonIronton Register August 10, 1854 Mr. Kelley relates that the first settlers of this region were all peaceable,...
Henry and Lewis Carter Arrested
Lewis and Henry Carter, of Lawrence County, Ohio, father and son, were tried in the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Leavett, on a charge of preventing colored men from voting. This is the first trial had under the Law of Congress of May, last.
Murder Mystery 1933
Mystery veils the third tragedy involving Mrs. Nan Patterson Moreland, 30, Ironton, Ohio, found dead in her beer flat, with John Porter, 37, Lawrence County, Ohio, prosecuting attorney, eyes shot out, lying in the same room.
About Uncle Purl Willis
An interesting story about a Lawrence Countian comes to us from his nephew, Brady Willis, of Forest Dale, the old schoolmaster…..It concerns Purl Willis, 87 of 130 Lathrop Lane, El Cajon, California, who left Lawrence County in 1910, lured by the Golden West…He was a Spanish-American War veteran and was captain of Company I in Ironton…A story in the San Diego newspaper adds another chapter to Capt. Willis’ story.
Judge Layne Accused of Bribery
A bombshell was exploded in old Ironton, Ohio, and it trebled from stern to stern Thursday when two women made the unequivocal statement that Judge A. J. Layne, who is well known here had accepted a $125 payment in a divorce suit. A vigorous denial was immediately entered into the charge of Judge Layne and the case will go to the supreme court of Ohio for an airing.
Reminiscences of the West
Col. John Johnston, who for sixty-five years, has been a prominent citizen of Western Ohio – for many years the Government Indian Agent at Piqua – communicates an interesting article to the Pioneer Association, Cincinnati, which is published in the Gazette, and from which we make liberal extracts.
Tried Stone Baptist Church Ironton Ohio
The Missionary Society of Triedstone Baptist Church held its monthly meeting Monday evening. Miss Effie Bryant, the president, deserves much credit for the excellent program she arranged. The subjects discussed, and addressed were very good, and the spirit exhibited showed that they were working in the right direction.