The Ellis /Hickman murder was profiled on this blog August 7 2024 “killed by Concealed Weapon”     https://www.lawrencelore.org/post/kill...

The year 1880 was to be an eventful one. The census of the United States would be taken, a new President elected, and it was a leap year....

The Vincennes newspapers carried the news of St Francisville as often, if not more, than the Lawrenceville newspapers. However, the facts...

Early Monday morning, November 10, 1879, word was sent to Coroner Grafham that the body of a man was laying at an old straw stack...

September 5th, 1879 W L Gray sold his interest in the Bridgeport store of Buchanan & Co to J M Buchanan . Warner Bros rented the upper...

The definition of infanticide is the killing of any infant below the age of one. There is no infanticide statute in Illinois. Thus,...

May 15, 1875 A young man named Kaiser was returning from Vincennes to his home on May 16, 1875 at 10 o'clock pm. when he met two...

On July 14, 1893, in the law-abiding county of Lawrence, in which Lincoln visited and which claimed the earliest school integration in...

At the jury term of 1827 the whipping post was yet in use in Lawrence County, and James Langley and Levi Rush were each sentenced to...

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