Lawrence Lore
Mar 221 min read
Beasley's Chevrolet
J O Beasley owned and operated Beasley’s Chevrolet Sales and Service at the north edge of Sumner for nearly 51 years. In September 1977...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 211 min read
Children with Guns
Ten-year-old Walter Byrley, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. James Byrley 1711 Fourteenth street, was fatally wounded when he was shot by his...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 182 min read
Hardaway Abernathy
Hardaway T. Abernathy was an early Lawrence County pioneer arriving in Lawrence County about 1838 and settling in the area that would...
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Lawrence Lore
Mar 51 min read
John Wayne and the Searchers
Some of you may have watched the John Wayne movie-- The Searchers --wherein a blonde blue-eyed young girl was kidnapped in Texas by the...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 151 min read
'Til Death Do Us Part
February one hundred years ago might have been the month for romance but not for these couples: Herschel L Kendall vs Clemence Kendall;...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 141 min read
Almost a Valentine Bride
Page 1 of Lawrence County News, published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Wednesday, February 20th, 1924 Miss Grace Holsen (31) and Omer...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 131 min read
Deaths 100 Years Ago
Causes of death 100 years ago this month--Taken from Lawrence County Death Records February 1924 How many of these deaths could have been...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 122 min read
German Pioneer Settler
Peter Scherer Sr, a pioneer settler of southern Lawrence County, Illinois was a native of Germany, being born in Rein-Byron about 1809....
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 82 min read
Aided in WWII
The 505th Bombardment Group of the Army Air Force was activated on March 11, 1944. First equipped with B-17's, the group later trained...
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Lawrence Lore
Feb 73 min read
Accidental Death of 12 Year Old
Copied from the Lawrence County News, published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Wednesday, February 20th, 1924 page 1 Carl May, the...
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