Lawrence Lore
Dec 43 min read
Under the Hay Stack--Dead
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...
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Lawrence Lore
Nov 194 min read
County News for September 1879
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...
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Lawrence Lore
Nov 183 min read
Infanticide in Lawrence County in the 1800's
The definition of infanticide is the killing of any infant below the age of one. There is no infanticide statute in Illinois. Thus,...
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Lawrence Lore
Nov 145 min read
Law and Order 1875
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...
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Lawrence Lore
Oct 146 min read
The Lynching
On July 14, 1893, in the law-abiding county of Lawrence, in which Lincoln visited and which claimed the earliest school integration in...
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Lawrence Lore
Aug 161 min read
Whipping Post
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...
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Lawrence Lore
Aug 122 min read
Elizabeth Reed
The Rural Republican occasionally published items that had occurred in the past probably to fill a blank space in the newspaper, or maybe...
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Lawrence Lore
Aug 75 min read
Killed by Concealed Weapon
Page 3 of The Weekly Western Sun, published in Vincennes, Indiana on Friday, March 28th, 1879 A Lawrenceville Tragedy Upon arriving in...
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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 12 min read
First Woman Hanged
The only enforcement of the death penalty in Lawrence County, Illinois was that of Elizabeth Reed. She was however not a resident of...
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