In the early 1800s a single woman enjoyed the same rights as a man to enter contracts and manage property. However, when a woman married,...

A nuncupative will or verbal will is sometimes called a death bed will. A person who is too sick to execute a written will and is not...

Emily Dickinson once said, “The heart wants what the heart wants . . . So, what happens when what the heart wants is generally considered...

Thomas J Kyle was born in Kentucky in 1810.  His parents James and Martha Anderson Kyle moved to Knox County Indiana in 1811.  In 1832...

September 5th, 1879 W L Gray sold his interest in the Bridgeport store of Buchanan & Co to J M Buchanan . Warner Bros rented the upper...

The definition of infanticide is the killing of any infant below the age of one. There is no infanticide statute in Illinois. Thus,...

May 15, 1875 A young man named Kaiser was returning from Vincennes to his home on May 16, 1875 at 10 o'clock pm. when he met two...

A review of the news around the county in August 1879 Rural Republican Friday August 1, 1879    Watermelons were ripe and selling for a...

Rose Robeson has been busy hunting obituaries for Tewalt and Price cemeteries. She found the following one for Parmenas W. Beckes, ...

Mary Goen was born about 1793. She married John Laws . Mary and John had a daughter, Nancy Laws, born Dec 31 1823 in Lawrence County...