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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Lawrence Lore
Apr 92 min read
Youngest Volunteer WWII
James Harold Bailey became one of the youngest, if not the youngest, Army volunteer inducted by the local board as reported by the...
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Lawrence Lore
Apr 51 min read
Smile. . .
Eddie (1860-1936) and Louella Waggoner Baker ( ?-1951) brought three of their five children their spouses and grandchildren together in...
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Lawrence Lore
Apr 32 min read
Elbert, Madge, and Robert Bailey
Elbert Bailey (1920-1990) was employed for 23 years with Girton Brothers Trucking in Lawrenceville. He also served four years as Lawrence...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 292 min read
Five Hearses
Usually when you read about a funeral being the largest one the county had seen, it means a lot of mourners attended. The meaning is...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 283 min read
A S Baird & Son Contractors
Alexander S Baird moved to Sumner in June 1864. He was a native of Wabash County where his family had migrated from Indiana in the early...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 264 min read
Thomas Fish
Thomas Fish’s ancestors have been documented in England as early as 1555, arriving in Connecticut about 1656. Later his family moved to...
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