“Aw’ dern it”
March 12, 1880 , from the Rural Republican and the Weekly Western Sun The Sand Ridgers were about to build a new church east of Gilmore...
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Mar 175 min read
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Horse Sense
February 13, 1880, Rural Republican and Vincennes Western Sun When a 21st-century descendant reads about the lives and times of their...
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Feb 245 min read
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News of January 1880
The year 1880 was to be an eventful one. The census of the United States would be taken, a new President elected, and it was a leap year....
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Jan 296 min read
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Pete: First Motorcycle Cop
Stanley Berget Vandament, better known as Pete , was born January 22, 1888, in Lawrenceville, Illinois, to Burgett and Belle Vandament ....
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Sep 12, 20243 min read
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Are You Related?
The Clerks of the Court in Lawrence County Illinois from 1818-1879 were: V J Bradley, James M McLean, E Z Ryan, Frederick A Thomas,...
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Sep 9, 20241 min read
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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...
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Jul 22, 20242 min read
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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...
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Jul 10, 20242 min read
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Living High
The Western Sun, on September 25, 1885, published an article about Tom A. Hall of Lawrenceville, who was charged with robbing the county...
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May 21, 20242 min read
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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...
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Apr 3, 20242 min read
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kicking like sin. . .
Political activity in the state proceeded at a slower pace in 1906 with candidates starting their weary rounds much earlier in the...
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Mar 30, 20241 min read
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