

The Game of 15 vs 20
Don't forget the prgram tonight 7:00 Secret Service The snow was two inches deep in Lawrence County in the last week of March in 1880....
Lawrence Lore
2 days ago5 min read
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Census Takers
For the Genealogists: The census of 1880 was to be made based on things as they existed on June 1, 1880, and the census takers only had...
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5 days ago2 min read
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“Aw’ dern it”
March 12, 1880 , from the Rural Republican and the Weekly Western Sun The Sand Ridgers were about to build a new church east of Gilmore...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 175 min read
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Foregoes
What was happening in Lawrence County during the first week of March 1880? Seed potatoes and garden seeds were for sale at Watts in...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 104 min read
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Increased Sale of Liniment, a Self-satisfied Female and a Highly Elated Lot of Gossipers
The St Francisville reporter in February 1880 stated that the city of St Francisville should retire and give some other town a chance to...
Lawrence Lore
Mar 42 min read
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I'll Take a Frisky One
News of Lawrence County February 20-29 1880 Gleaned from Lawrenceville and Vincennes newspapers. Some of the young folks evidently...
Lawrence Lore
Feb 286 min read
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"Skivered Him into Atoms"
“Joseph Drennon was under the weather from the use of whiskey, and he undertook to walk the C & V Railroad below St Francisville. He had...
Lawrence Lore
Feb 263 min read
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Horse Sense
February 13, 1880, Rural Republican and Vincennes Western Sun When a 21st-century descendant reads about the lives and times of their...
Lawrence Lore
Feb 245 min read
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"Hairpins Scattered an Inch Deep"
The Bridgeport newspaper correspondent for the Mt Carmel Reporter published the story about the wedding of George M Whittaker and Mrs....
Lawrence Lore
Feb 214 min read
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DIVORCE
As genealogists we when we see second or third marriages among ancestors, we usually believe there was a death of one of the spouses. ...
Lawrence Lore
Feb 133 min read
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