Some news in the County during the late1840s:
Star Spangled Banner published September 10, 1847
Frederick Hawkins filed notice against his wife Phebe
Hawkins for a divorce to be decided at the September term of the circuit
court 1847. (They were married in 1845 in Coshocton County Ohio according to
family sources.)
Lawrenceville Banner May 12, 1848
From the editor: The reason why the Banner did not make its
appearance last week was in consequence of our being out of paper. We had sent to Cincinnati for a supply, but
unfortunately it didn’t arrive in time.
We will further state that our readers may know that we made some
exertion to prevent a failure that we went to Mount Carmel, Vincennes, and to
Princeton to borrow paper, but could not get any for either love nor money.
Wm Tanquery and Jacob Young were candidates for
county sheriff. (Jacob Young won the election.)
James Thompson, executor for estate of Samuel
Lemons (death prior to July 27, 1849). The will named his wife Jane,
his son Samuel, and his daughter Nancy Ellen as beneficiaries. (Lawrence
County Courthouse Records).
John Law, John Ross and Abner T. Ellis, took their oaths as executors of the Will of Geo. W. Ewing July 15, 1858. (No will found.)
Lawrenceville Banner August 3, 1849
Editors: J. F. Buntin and Richard Beck The cost of a subscription for 52 weeks was
$1 if paid in advance. $3.00 if it took 12 months to pay for the year. Subscribers
would be charged one dollar to announce their names as candidates and $2 would
be charged to any person who was not a subscriber; this was payable in advance.
The Banner was Whig in politics but stated that they would “never forget to be courteous, and never be guilty of distorting the history
of the country to subserve party purposes.”
Three men
were running for County Judge in November: Victor Buchanan, James Nabb Esq, and
E. Z. Ryan. (Ebenezer Ryan was elected 1849-1852, James Nabb from 1852-1853)
James M. McLean, Esq of this county, has been appointed
Register of the Land Office at Palestine in the place of H. Alexander, Esq.
Lawrenceville Banner August 3, 1849
“The partnership
of the practice of law between J. G. Bowman and Wm. Harrow has
been dissolved as of June 24, 1848.” The 1850 census listed five lawyers:
Matthew McFetridge, Wm. Mills, Joseph Bowman, Wm. Harrod, and Aaron Shaw.
Wm. Baldwin, H.
H. Shepherd, S. H. Clubb, and Geo. Buchanan, all were agents for Poole and
Brother merchants in New Orleans in selling western produce. If local farmers
wanted to ship their produce down south, they would enlist the help of these
gentlemen.
Lawrenceville Banner September 7, 1849
John B. Maxwell was a candidate for Associate Justice,
Lawrence County, as was H. Randolph Heath from Russellville. Running for
Circuit Clerk of Lawrence County in 1849, were Frederick A. Thomas, Caius M.
Eaton, Jackson B. Shaw, and Green Clay Crosson. (Ebenezer A. Ryan had been
the clerk 1836-1849; Frederick A. Thomas won the election and served until
1851.)
“Married on
the September 6, Henry G. Robinson to Miss Amelia Leech.”
H. Badillot asked that everyone who promised funds to
purchase instruments for the Lawrenceville band please pay now. Wait. . .We had a band?
