Pioneers & Profiles

Vintage black-and-white family portrait showing adults and children gathered outside a house.Explore the lives of Lawrence County, Ohio's early pioneers, families, and notable residents through historical biographies, family histories, and genealogical research. Located where Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia meet, the county became a crossroads for settlers traveling along the Ohio River and surrounding waterways. Some families established permanent roots, while others continued their journeys elsewhere.

For decades, The Lawrence Register and its dedicated volunteers have collected and preserved family histories, biographies, and personal accounts. Drawing upon courthouse records, cemetery readings, oral histories, and other historical sources, these collections reveal the accomplishments, hardships, and everyday lives of the people who shaped Lawrence County.

Do you have a family history, biography, photograph, or historical story to share? We welcome contributions that help preserve Lawrence County's history and genealogical heritage. Please email us with information you would like to share.

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James M. Denison

James M. Denison

James M. Denison (deceased) was born in Lawrence County, Ohio on Nov. 24, 1818. When he was eighteen years of age, he went to Iowa, where he...

Isaac Yates

Isaac Yates and Polly A. Neal were married in this county on January 6, 1870.  They were both born in this county; he was born in 1851, and his wife...

Capt. J.W. Earles

After forty-eight years in Webb City, Capt. J. W. Earles age 91 years of 111 South Ball Street* passed away from infirmities incident to age. He had...

Christian Yingling

Christian Yingling was born in western Pennsylvania, on April 24, 1788, and died September 12, 1856.  His wife, Martha Lee, was born in Patrick...

William Wilgus

William Wilgus was born in Union township, where Proctorville now stands.  He was raised on his father’s farm, where he remained up to 1845, when...

Charles Worthington

Charles Worthington and Rachel Cartwright were married on September 18, 1834.  He is a native of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where he was...

Isaac Winters

Isaac Winters was the son of Mathias and Rebecca (Brubaker) Winters, born in Lawrence County on August 26, 1830.  His parents came to this county in...

Silas Wilks

Silas Wilks was born in Lawrence County, Ohio, on June 12, 1838, in which county he was married on January 3, 1867, to Carolina M. Munsell, who was...

Joseph Wildes

Joseph Wildes was a native of England, where he was born in 1844.  He came to Lawrence County in the year 1865.  He was married in Elizabeth...