Lawrence Lore
Aug 161 min read
Whipping Post
At the jury term of 1827 the whipping post was yet in use in Lawrence County, and James Langley and Levi Rush were each sentenced to...
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Lawrence Lore
Aug 122 min read
Elizabeth Reed
The Rural Republican occasionally published items that had occurred in the past probably to fill a blank space in the newspaper, or maybe...
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Lawrence Lore
May 233 min read
Vice and Immorality
Laws of Illinois passed by the Second General Assembly at their first session commenced at Vandalia, December 4, 1820. ...
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Lawrence Lore
May 162 min read
Cabins for the Poor Not Good Enough
From Lawrence County Commissioner’s Book June Term 5th day of 1843 County Commissioners Victor Buchanan and James Nabb ordered that Dr....
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Lawrence Lore
May 152 min read
Lincoln and Lawrence County
Lincoln Introduced Bill that Included State Road to Russellville 1837 A Bill was introduced in Illinois Legislature to locate a state...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 264 min read
Thomas Fish
Thomas Fish’s ancestors have been documented in England as early as 1555, arriving in Connecticut about 1656. Later his family moved to...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 201 min read
J L Bass Family
John Launier Bass was born March 24, 1805, in Wilson County Tennessee. At a birthday celebration (1914) for his son Henry's 83rd...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 12 min read
First Woman Hanged
The only enforcement of the death penalty in Lawrence County, Illinois was that of Elizabeth Reed. She was however not a resident of...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 122 min read
German Pioneer Settler
Peter Scherer Sr, a pioneer settler of southern Lawrence County, Illinois was a native of Germany, being born in Rein-Byron about 1809....
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Lawrence Lore
Jan 303 min read
Political Dispute between Dr. Anderson and A. Lincoln in Lawrenceville
The Lawrence County Historical Society and the Illinois State Historical Society erected a historical marker on the north side of the...
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