Life is Hard; Then You Die
Earlier posts on this blog share the deep dive research not only from the local newspapers, but newspapers from the surrounding counties...
Lawrence Lore
Jul 18, 20245 min read
Rendezvous for Immoral Purposes
The Daily Record, February 6, 1924 The Lawrenceville cemetery should be paved if it is to be used as a rendezvous for Vincennes men with...
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Jul 17, 20242 min read
Certificates of Emancipation
john King was looking for something else--a deed for a particular property when he noticed two entries of interest--Certificates of...
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Jul 16, 20241 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...
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Jul 15, 20246 min read
Redemption
Recently I posted a blog--Death before Dishonor--about O V Smith and noted that he had disappeared as a result of a scandal followed by a...
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Jul 12, 20242 min read
Ubers of 1908
The sticker says "Livery in early Bridgeport Il" and the sign on the building says "South Side Livery" Several ads were found for South...
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Jul 11, 20241 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
A Woman Doctor. . . .no way
Page 2 of Rural Republican, published in Lawrenceville, Illinois on Friday, July 12th, 1878 Miss Bradley MD who has just died in...
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Jul 9, 20241 min read
Sumner Bank Robbery 1929
On June 17, 1929 the bank in Sumner was robbed. This is a first hand account of that robbery. Sumner Bank Robbery June 17, 1929 by Rex...
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Jul 8, 20242 min read
Eli Cole
Elihu/Eli Cole an African American was born January 1, 1800, in Logan County Kentucky according to his obituary on the front page of the...
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Jul 5, 20242 min read