Lawrence Lore
Jul 102 min read
Death Before Dishonor-- Suicide (?) of an Illinois State Senator
Springfield August 10 1878 “News has reached this city that Hon. O V Smith of Lawrence County, State senator from the forty- fifth...
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Lawrence Lore
Jun 211 min read
Overlooking the Missouri River...
Clarissa Powers White was born about 1830 and was raised in Lawrence County Illinois where she remained a resident for many years after...
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Lawrence Lore
Jun 52 min read
Joseph Tewalt
Actual signatures of A.R. Slawson, John Shepherd, Jasper Catlett and W. Tewalt, when they signed as bondsmen in 1854. Wouldn’t be nice if...
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Lawrence Lore
May 244 min read
No More John. . . .
I wanted to use the following newspaper on the blog but I thought it would be more interesting if I had additional information so I asked...
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Lawrence Lore
May 91 min read
6 Months Old- Still Unemployed
The curators found this photo in a scrapbook made from articles in the Beacon magazine, a publication for Ohio Oil personnel. It was not...
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Lawrence Lore
Apr 242 min read
Buried at Sea
Eugene Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bailey graduated from Sumner High School with the class of 1941 and then attended Sanford Brown’s...
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Lawrence Lore
Apr 182 min read
Fifty Years = A Certificate
Fifty years of continuous and constructive service in the petroleum industry earned William D Loftus of Lawrenceville a certificate from...
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Lawrence Lore
Apr 161 min read
Bunyan Cup
Rural Republican August 8, 1884, reprinted from the Sumner Press: David A. Watts, executor of the estate of Charlotte M Bach, deceased,...
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Lawrence Lore
Apr 102 min read
Stage Coach Driver
CHARLES W. ACKMAN was born in the Blue Grass regions of Kentucky, in 1828. In 1851 he came to this State by stage. After his first...
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