

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...

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Apr 24, 20242 min read


Fifty Years = A Certificate
Fifty years of continuous and constructive service in the petroleum industry earned William D Loftus of Lawrenceville a certificate from...

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Apr 18, 20242 min read
Bunyan Cup
Rural Republican August 8, 1884, reprinted from the Sumner Press: David A. Watts, executor of the estate of Charlotte M Bach, deceased,...

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Apr 16, 20241 min read
Stage Coach Driver
CHARLES W. ACKMAN was born in the Blue Grass regions of Kentucky, in 1828. In 1851 he came to this State by stage. After his first...

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Apr 10, 20242 min read
Youngest Volunteer WWII
James Harold Bailey became one of the youngest, if not the youngest, Army volunteer inducted by the local board as reported by the...

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Apr 9, 20242 min read


Smile. . .
Eddie (1860-1936) and Louella Waggoner Baker ( ?-1951) brought three of their five children their spouses and grandchildren together in...

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Apr 5, 20241 min read


Elbert, Madge, and Robert Bailey
Elbert Bailey (1920-1990) was employed for 23 years with Girton Brothers Trucking in Lawrenceville. He also served four years as Lawrence...

Lawrence Lore
Apr 3, 20242 min read
Five Hearses
Usually when you read about a funeral being the largest one the county had seen, it means a lot of mourners attended. The meaning is...

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Mar 29, 20242 min read


A S Baird & Son Contractors
Alexander S Baird moved to Sumner in June 1864. He was a native of Wabash County where his family had migrated from Indiana in the early...

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Mar 28, 20243 min read



