William Lower of Lawrenceville was married to Jane Spencer , daughter of Wm Spencer. The couple were living in Lawrenceville when...

News of Bird Station, as it was then called in 1885, was reported in the Robinson Constitution. Research in these old newspapers was done...

The importance and availability of a suitable community Hospital was recognized as a necessity after several catastrophes had occurred in...

Thomas J Kyle was born in Kentucky in 1810.  His parents James and Martha Anderson Kyle moved to Knox County Indiana in 1811.  In 1832...

September 5th, 1879 W L Gray sold his interest in the Bridgeport store of Buchanan & Co to J M Buchanan . Warner Bros rented the upper...

The definition of infanticide is the killing of any infant below the age of one. There is no infanticide statute in Illinois. Thus,...

May 15, 1875 A young man named Kaiser was returning from Vincennes to his home on May 16, 1875 at 10 o'clock pm. when he met two...

A review of the news around the county in August 1879 Rural Republican Friday August 1, 1879    Watermelons were ripe and selling for a...