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Oct 5, 2024

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From the Family Farm to the Civil War: The McCauslands of Lawrence County

John McCausland was born in 1794 in Ireland. He and his wife Catherine moved from Ohio with their eight children to Lawrence County and purchased land from the US Government for $1.25 an acre in what

Salt, Sugar, and 34 Yards of Cloth: A Sumner Shopping Trip in 1855

Jacob May was a merchant in the newly formed village of Sumner, Lawrence County, Illinois, from 1853 to 1857. His surviving account book, published by the Richland County Genealogical and Historical S

Settling Richard Swinson’s Affairs

On November 8, 1870, 63-year-old farmer Richard Swinson of Petty Township, Lawrence County, Illinois, sat down to settle his affairs by writing his Last Will and Testament—and apparently to assign roo

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