How Many Children Have You?
News for the Lawrenceville and Vincennes newspapers June 18 1880 Robinson was going to have an old fashioned barbeque to celebrate the...

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Piper Ancestor
Manuscript on “Cromwell McVitty” prepared by Raymond Greene, Lewistown Pennsylvania August 28, 1934. Read before the...

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May 243 min read
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Bridgeport Men in WWII
News of Boys in Service October 15, 1942 Bridgeport Leader Word has been received of the change of address of Junior Chapman. He...

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May 212 min read
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" one irate father and one more irate son"
May 1880: William E Bond and Miss Dora A Taylor of Flat Rock were given a license to marry by the clerk of the Lawrence County. Thereby...

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May 152 min read
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Make That Three
Rebecca Jordan was born December 22, 1848, to William and Catherine Grundon Jordan in Wabash County. There she married Samuel W McIntosh...

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Apr 82 min read
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“Aw’ dern it”
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...

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Mar 175 min read
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Foregoes
What was happening in Lawrence County during the first week of March 1880? Seed potatoes and garden seeds were for sale at Watts in...

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Mar 104 min read
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I'll Take a Frisky One
News of Lawrence County February 20-29 1880 Gleaned from Lawrenceville and Vincennes newspapers. Some of the young folks evidently...

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Feb 286 min read
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"Skivered Him into Atoms"
“Joseph Drennon was under the weather from the use of whiskey, and he undertook to walk the C & V Railroad below St Francisville. He had...

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Feb 263 min read
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Rebecca Cummins- Who are you?
Dann Norton of Lawrenceville, a professional genealogist, sent me his latest blog post about the misinformation online about Rebecca...

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Feb 191 min read
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