Lucasville Cemeteries: Excerpts from the Portsmouth Daily Times

Lucasville is proud of her graveyards, and she, paradoxically speaking, lives in them. There are 350 living souls in the town, and the Lord, and the Lord only knows how many dead bodies are in the graveyards. The old graveyard occupies what is known as lot No. 9 Some years Continue Reading

James E Hadley and Scioto County’s Recovery Center

Mr. John W. Manion and Will Hadley, of the W.U. Telegraph office at your city, were in town Thursday. Portsmouth Daily Times 3 March 1888 Pg 1 J.E. Hadley, superintendent of the West Union, was in Fayette county, West Virginia, on business connected with the company, this week. Portsmouth Daily Continue Reading

The Young Widow

A census-taker, going his round, stopped at an elegant brick dwelling-house, the exact locality of which is no business of ours. He was received by a stiff, well dressed lady, who could be well recognized as a widow of some years’ standing. On learning the mission of her visitor, the Continue Reading

Rarden Postcards 1908-1910

A compilation of postcards dating from between 1908 and 1910 that were received as a donation from the Highland County Historical Society.