Death of a Pioneer Furnaceman

“Mr. W.E.S. McLean, proprietor of the McLean House, corner of Second and Jefferson streets, died yesterday morning at a quarter to one o’clock.” “Mr. McLean was the son of a sister of the late Judge Salters, and was born in Unionville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, September 16th, 1811. He came to Continue Reading

A Fisherman’s Find

“Charlie Price, a fisherman, living near Wheelersburg, found the body of a colored man floating in the Ohio River yesterday afternoon, a few miles this side of Wheelersburg. The body had evidently been in the water for some time and was badly decomposed. The remains were hauled out on the Continue Reading

1st Lieutenant Robert C Lemley

While on a recent walking tour of the Old Wheelersburg Cemetery with the Local History Department of the Portsmouth Public Library I came upon the stone of 1st Lieutenant Robert C. Lemley. Aside from the simple grave marker unadorned with the trappings typical seen with the headstones of service members there was the last Continue Reading