“Thomas E. Burt, an infant, by Thomas J. Burt, his next friend, plaintiff vs. Oly Burt, alias Oly De Berian, an infant over the age of fourteen years. At the time of the filing of this petition the plaintiff was nineteen years old. The parties were married at Ironton, Ohio, on the 3rd day of …
“Death in terrible form was cruelly meted out to Elmer Ruggles, 48, while he was at work in the plant of the Cambria Clay Products company at Black Fork at 5 o’clock Friday afternoon.” “He fell between two 2400 pound clay rollers he was cleaning and was crushed to death, ever bone in his body …
“Within 27 minutes after the bridge was thrown open after the automobile parade this morning 1492 machines passed over it.” “At 2 o’clock this afternoon it was estimated that 5000 visitors were here for the bridge opening. Lower clouds gave way to sunshine when the speaking program was reached and Old Sol beamed down on …
“The Lawrence County Museum has certification by the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums. It is operated by the Lawrence County Historical Society, a corporation since 1925. The Historical Society has IRS non-profit status. The building in which the Museum is housed is in the Registry of Historic Homes of the Rankin District, listed …
“Miss Emma McAtee formerly of this county, committed suicide last Sunday night at her home at Lawrence Furnace by taking strychnine. She was a very attractive young woman and the rash deed is accounted for by disappointed love.”
” Gallipolis, Ohio, July 19 – Forest McGirr volunteered to serve his country in the Ninety-first Ohio. The regiment was then forming at Portsmouth. Soon after he went into camp he was taken sick with typhoid fever and in a few days reported dead. He was thought to be actually dead and was laid out. …
“Ironton, October 30 – A burglar ‘trap’ set by Walter Yates, proprietor of the Sunshine grocery, Seventh and Adams streets, three weeks ago, after the store had been loots of a large amount of merchandise, brought tragic death to one of his own employees Thursday night.” “Robert Starr, 29, of Cincinnati, was killed almost instantly …
The towboat GW McBride was on its way from Huntington, West Virginia to Addyston, Ohio. Rain had swollen the Ohio River to 29 feet, not flood stage, but the current was swift and swirling especially in the stretch of Ohio River along Northern Kentucky. It was originally named the Conqueror and had capsized on the …
I found this report card, dated in 1929, for Vivian Horner at Ghost in the Attic in Portsmouth, Ohio. Vivian Horner, daughter of John Wesley Horner and Lillie Myrtle McClurg, was born August 12, 1918 in Eifort, Scioto County, Ohio. On March 12, 1948 she married Zora Elucid Phipps. She died in September of 1982.
