Lawrence Lore
Jun 285 min read
A Review of Lawrence County Life in April, May and June 1878.
James C Allen was the Judge; Thomas H Huffman was the State’s Attorney. B L Cunningham was the Circuit Clerk; Issac Potts was the County...
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Lawrence Lore
Jun 275 min read
1878 in Review January February and March
In 1878, the newspapers reported about President Rutherford Hayes, the yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans, and discussed bimetallism...
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Lawrence Lore
Jun 252 min read
The Return of the Spinning Wheel
In 2017 LCHS received a call from a historical society member in Oklahoma who wanted to donate a spinning wheel that had once been used...
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Lawrence Lore
Jun 201 min read
Starved to Death
A death record in the Lawrence County courthouse noted that Nyrane R Yocum was born May 12, 1877, in Vermilion County. His parents’...
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Lawrence Lore
May 222 min read
Death Records in Lawrence County
From the Illinois Secretary of State on Recordation of Deaths in Illinois The first legislation in Illinois regarding recordation of...
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Lawrence Lore
Apr 41 min read
charivari: a noisy serenade
The editor of the Sumner Press wrote a remembrance Miss Mary Small only daughter of William Small, one of the first settlers of Lawrence...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 142 min read
Bridgeport 1862
In a published letter to the Mount Carmel Registrar newspaper, signed only as "an old resident of Bridgeport," the writer wondered why...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 161 min read
How Many Did You Say?
Title: Population of Lawrence County Population of Lawrence County as given in The Blue Book of State of Illinois, Compiled by the Sec....
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 65 min read
Lukin News
If Lukin had a Facebook page in 1891 the posts might have read something like this. The following are excerpts from the Sumner Press...
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Lawrence Lore
Jan 194 min read
Birds News January - June 1885
D Foote researched the Robinson Constitiution newspaper for news of Lawrence County during the period of January- June 1885. Jan 21, 1885...
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