Buchanan/Price Tragedy
Amanda (Manda) L Price was born July 23, 1856, in Denison Twp, Lawence County Illinois to John Clayton and Lucinda (Potts) Price. She...
Lawrence Lore
Aug 5, 20242 min read
Where There's a Will . . . .
Women may have gotten the vote in 1920, but they didn't become jurors in Lawrence County until 1939. The first time women's names were...
Lawrence Lore
Jul 22, 20242 min read
Mack Vangilder WWI Vet
McKinley Roscoe “Mack” VanGilder was born August 9, 1894, in Christy Twp., Lawrence County, Illinois, to Wallace and Elmira Hughes...
Lawrence Lore
Jul 15, 20246 min read
Death Before Dishonor-- Suicide (?) of an Illinois State Senator
Springfield August 10 1878 “News has reached this city that Hon. O V Smith of Lawrence County, State senator from the forty- fifth...
Lawrence Lore
Jul 10, 20242 min read
Overlooking the Missouri River...
Clarissa Powers White was born about 1830 and was raised in Lawrence County Illinois where she remained a resident for many years after...
Lawrence Lore
Jun 21, 20241 min read
Joseph Tewalt
Actual signatures of A.R. Slawson, John Shepherd, Jasper Catlett and W. Tewalt, when they signed as bondsmen in 1854. Wouldn’t be nice if...
Lawrence Lore
Jun 5, 20242 min read
No More John. . . .
I wanted to use the following newspaper on the blog but I thought it would be more interesting if I had additional information so I asked...
Lawrence Lore
May 24, 20244 min read
6 Months Old- Still Unemployed
The curators found this photo in a scrapbook made from articles in the Beacon magazine, a publication for Ohio Oil personnel. It was not...
Lawrence Lore
May 9, 20241 min read
Buried at Sea
Eugene Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bailey graduated from Sumner High School with the class of 1941 and then attended Sanford Brown’s...
Lawrence Lore
Apr 24, 20242 min read