Lawrence Lore
2 days ago2 min read
Stayed Mad Until He Died
Thomas J Kyle was born in Kentucky in 1810. His parents James and Martha Anderson Kyle moved to Knox County Indiana in 1811. In 1832...
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Lawrence Lore
3 days ago4 min read
County News for September 1879
September 5th, 1879 W L Gray sold his interest in the Bridgeport store of Buchanan & Co to J M Buchanan . Warner Bros rented the upper...
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Lawrence Lore
4 days ago3 min read
Infanticide in Lawrence County in the 1800's
The definition of infanticide is the killing of any infant below the age of one. There is no infanticide statute in Illinois. Thus,...
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Lawrence Lore
Nov 145 min read
Law and Order 1875
May 15, 1875 A young man named Kaiser was returning from Vincennes to his home on May 16, 1875 at 10 o'clock pm. when he met two...
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Lawrence Lore
Nov 138 min read
August 1879
A review of the news around the county in August 1879 Rural Republican Friday August 1, 1879 Watermelons were ripe and selling for a...
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Lawrence Lore
Oct 307 min read
The Life and Loves of Parmenas W. Beckes
Rose Robeson has been busy hunting obituaries for Tewalt and Price cemeteries. She found the following one for Parmenas W. Beckes, ...
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Lawrence Lore
Oct 252 min read
Onward to Oregon
Mary Goen was born about 1793. She married John Laws . Mary and John had a daughter, Nancy Laws, born Dec 31 1823 in Lawrence County...
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Lawrence Lore
Oct 222 min read
Benson Family Photos
Lewis L Benson was the son of Andrew Benson and Nancy Gilliam Benson born in 1872 in Lawrence County Illinois. Among his siblings were...
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Lawrence Lore
Oct 131 min read
Don't Forget to Heart
To the readers of the blog, we need your help. We have included a list of deceased residents who would have had birthdays this week...
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Lawrence Lore
Oct 104 min read
Watch Where You Sit
We have only spotty digitized county newspapers for the summer of 1879, so the researchers had to look for local news in the Vincennes...
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