Charles Guthneck was born in 1814. (On his son, Rev Father Michael Guthneck’s death certificate, his father’s birthplace was listed as Alsace, France with his mother’s birthplace given as in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) Charles immigrated to America in 1837 when he was 21+ years of age with a French colony, who made their headquarters at Vincennes, Indiana. He became a stone and brick contractor and built many bridges for the Baltimore & Ohio and Southwestern railroads. After

Fruit trees were then in bloom and from appearances there would be an abundance of fruit if nothing happened to destroy or blight it. Farmers were rejoicing over the fine weather and the outcome of the wheat. Health was good in general. Croquet seemed to be the principal amusement of the young folks. Simon Vandermark had disappeared; information was wanted as to his whereabouts. Lou Hite, a young man well known in the county formerly clerking in the drug store of Ed Schmalhau

As our researchers discovered when they did the life stories of the Civil War soldiers from Lawrence County, not only was there a conflict between the states but that often, while the men and boys were gone, there was also trouble on the home front. This was the case of a Crawford County soldier named Lt. Archilles M. Brown. While serving in Illinois Infantry company he received several letters from ‘concerned friends’ that things were not going so well at home with his you

Friday, April 15th, 1881 The editor hoped the groundhog would never live to see his shadow again! Sunday was Easter and every little boy and girl in the land wanted to celebrate the time-honored event by having eggs colored in divers pretty colors. They would make it a point to celebrate the event by eating all the eggs they could. The editor remembered when he was a boy how fondly he looked forward to Easter as a day of rare sport and pleasure, and a hearty feast of eggs whi

The Lawrence County Court Records include Naturalization Records, and while these records are not commonplace in this county, they do exist. Before the 1870 census Jesse Lancaster left England and settled in Lukin township with the William Greenhood family. On October 28, 1880 Jesse stood before Jack Dickerson, the Clerk of the County Court and swore to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty particularly to "Vi

Ashulamite was the daughter of Wabash County pioneers Peter Keen and Jemima Gard. Ashulamite Keen was married first to Caleb Jordan in 1821 and then to Joseph Lamotte, Jr. in 1832. The Lamotte's are the namesake of Ft Lamotte at Palestine and Lamotte Township in Crawford County. Joseph Lamotte Jr died March 1, 1872, at age 75 years 8 months and 19 days. Ashulamite his wife died March 8, 1889, at 86 years 3 months and 13 days. They are buried near the southwest corner of