The Rural Republican occasionally published items that had occurred in the past probably to fill a blank space in the newspaper, or maybe...

Edward Perry Fyffe was born in Fort Allison Illinois, during the Native American uprisings when the settlers were forced to inhabit the...

Amanda (Manda) L Price was born July 23, 1856, in Denison Twp, Lawence County Illinois to John Clayton and Lucinda (Potts) Price. She...

Women may have gotten the vote in 1920, but they didn't become jurors in Lawrence County until 1939. The first time women's names were...

McKinley Roscoe “Mack” VanGilder was born August 9, 1894, in Christy Twp., Lawrence County, Illinois, to Wallace and Elmira Hughes...

Springfield August 10 1878  “News has reached this city that Hon. O V Smith of Lawrence County, State senator from the forty- fifth...

Clarissa Powers White was born about 1830 and was raised in Lawrence County Illinois where she remained a resident for many years after...

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...

LCHS has probably 100 cute baby pictures. . . . and very few are marked.

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...