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
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
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
