Laws of Illinois passed by the Second General Assembly at their first session commenced at Vandalia, December 4, 1820. ...

From Lawrence County Commissioner’s Book June Term 5th day of 1843 County Commissioners Victor Buchanan and James Nabb ordered that Dr....

Lincoln Introduced Bill that Included State Road to Russellville 1837 A Bill was introduced in Illinois Legislature to locate a state...

Thomas Fish’s ancestors have been documented in England as early as 1555, arriving in Connecticut about 1656. Later his family moved to...

John Launier Bass was born March 24, 1805, in Wilson County Tennessee. At a birthday celebration (1914) for his son Henry's 83rd...

The only enforcement of the death penalty in Lawrence County, Illinois was that of Elizabeth Reed. She was however not a resident of...

Peter Scherer Sr, a pioneer settler of southern Lawrence County, Illinois was a native of Germany, being born in Rein-Byron about 1809....

The Lawrence County Historical Society and the Illinois State Historical Society erected a historical marker on the north side of the...

Aaron Shaw was born December 19, 1811 near Goshen, New York. He attended Montgomery Academy in New York and studied law at Goshen. Shaw...

William F Ruark has been reported as the son of John C and Mary Smith Ruark born about 1815. While the Native Americans had vacated the...