Lewis L Benson was the son of Andrew Benson and Nancy Gilliam Benson born in 1872 in Lawrence County Illinois. Among his siblings were...

To the readers of the blog, we need your help.   We have included a list of deceased residents who would have had birthdays this week...

We have only spotty digitized county newspapers for the summer of 1879, so the researchers had to look for local news in the Vincennes...

Page 1 of The Lawrence County News, published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Wednesday, May 25th, 1927 George Hartman , son of Mr. and...

Duke William Anderson, born in Lawrence County, Illinois (1812-1873) was a Baptist Minister, Church Founder, Educator, and Underground...

Our researchers continue to deep dive into Lawrence County’s history in 1879. In February 18 deaths were recorded. One set of twins was...

Drexal Young was born October 15, 1907 in Lawrenceville, Illinois, to Elijah and Clementine Rebecca Corrie Young. He married Clara Belle...

“The days are getting shorter.”  This was the last sentence Ellis “Curley” Johnson of Bridgeport said to his wife Frances before he died...

The Rural Republican occasionally published items that had occurred in the past probably to fill a blank space in the newspaper, or maybe...

Edward Perry Fyffe was born in Fort Allison Illinois, during the Native American uprisings when the settlers were forced to inhabit the...