Henry Bass and Mother Goose
Recently, our researcher has been working on organizing our family files and binders (we are still in the A’s). The Adams’ family binder...

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Jul 7, 20252 min read


Steamboats on the Wabash
As early as May 15, 1819, the Western Star , a newspaper printed in Vincennes, reported that Thomas Emison ran a keelboat for freight up...

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Jul 4, 20255 min read
Fields of Dreams
Mordecai Brown's passion for baseball was so great that even after his retirement from the major leagues he could not leave the game and...

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Jul 3, 20251 min read


Circus Coming to Town 1880
Sumner was in full swing in Lawrence County the week of July 2, 1880. Blackberries and cream were on tables. The potato bug was eating...

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Jul 2, 20254 min read


Circus Fame at Poor Farm
“Samuel Armor , 94, died August 25, 1937, at the County home (Poor Farm) near Bridgeport. Deceased was born in Kentucky March 12, 1842,...

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Jul 1, 20251 min read
'Women Drivers'
June 1880: A runaway occurred three miles west of Lawrenceville in which three persons were pretty badly bruised. They were L Gosnell,...

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Jun 30, 20254 min read
Russellville Ferry
Previous Lawrence County researchers have stated that the first ferry was in operation before 1818 by a Mr. Lamphere near the junction of...

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Jun 27, 20252 min read


Cure for Wayward Husbands
June 25th, 1880 Lots of folks around Lawrenceville had mumps. Henry A Clubb was acting as postmaster during the illness of Nellie...

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Jun 26, 20253 min read
More about Betsey Reed
Dann M Norton has graciously agreed to allow me to post two of his blog articles about Betsey Reed. They are both excellent and shed...

Lawrence Lore
Jun 25, 20251 min read


doctors vs fisikins
I found this essay that a little boy had written for the Lawrence County News in 1931 . (My computer kept wanting to auto correct all...

Lawrence Lore
Jun 24, 20251 min read

