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

J O Beasley owned and operated Beasley’s Chevrolet Sales and Service at the north edge of Sumner for nearly 51 years.  In September 1977...

Ten-year-old Walter Byrley, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. James Byrley 1711 Fourteenth street, was fatally wounded when he was shot by his...

Hardaway T. Abernathy was an early Lawrence County pioneer arriving in Lawrence County about 1838 and settling in the area that would...

Some of you may have watched the John Wayne movie-- The Searchers --wherein a blonde blue-eyed young girl was kidnapped in Texas by the...

February one hundred years ago might have been the month for romance but not for these couples: Herschel L Kendall vs Clemence Kendall;...

Page  1 of Lawrence County News, published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Wednesday, February 20th, 1924 Miss Grace Holsen (31) and Omer...

Causes of death 100 years ago this month--Taken from Lawrence County Death Records February 1924 How many of these deaths could have been...

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

The 505th Bombardment Group of the Army Air Force was activated on March 11, 1944.  First equipped with B-17's, the group later trained...