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...

The curators found this photo in a scrapbook made from articles in the Beacon magazine, a publication for Ohio Oil personnel. It was not...

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...

Fifty years of continuous and constructive service in the petroleum industry earned William D Loftus of Lawrenceville a certificate from...

Rural Republican August 8, 1884, reprinted from the Sumner Press: David A. Watts, executor of the estate of Charlotte M Bach, deceased,...