March 12, 1880 , from the Rural Republican and the Weekly Western Sun The Sand Ridgers were about to build a new church east of Gilmore...

February 13, 1880, Rural Republican and Vincennes Western Sun When a 21st-century descendant reads about the lives and times of their...

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....

Stanley Berget Vandament, better known as Pete , was born January 22, 1888, in Lawrenceville, Illinois, to Burgett and Belle Vandament ....

The Clerks of the Court in Lawrence County Illinois from 1818-1879 were:  V J Bradley, James M McLean, E Z Ryan, Frederick A Thomas,...

Women may have gotten the vote in 1920, but they didn't become jurors in Lawrence County until 1939. The first time women's names were...

Springfield August 10 1878  “News has reached this city that Hon. O V Smith of Lawrence County, State senator from the forty- fifth...

The Western Sun, on September 25, 1885, published an article about Tom A. Hall of Lawrenceville, who was charged with robbing the county...

Elbert Bailey (1920-1990) was employed for 23 years with Girton Brothers Trucking in Lawrenceville. He also served four years as Lawrence...

Political activity in the state proceeded at a slower pace in 1906 with candidates starting their weary rounds much earlier in the...