Kenneth Lawrence of Orwell was the speaker at the Ashtabula County Genealogical Society meeting 6th Ohio Calvary on Wednesday, August 25
Kenneth Lawrence a local dentist with a love for Ashtabula County history, especially the Civil War and the people who fought. He has been collecting artifacts for 35 years. Lawrence is a collector who refers to himself as a preserver of history. He focuses on items with a story, either the person the item belonged to or the item itself. Besides the Civil War, Lawrence has interview 60 WWII veterans.
The Ohio 6th Volunteer Calvary, Company A formed at the Jefferson Fairgrounds, moving on to Warren, Ohio for training. Ohio 6th Cal was organized in October, 1861 under Col. William R. Lloyd for three years service. Lawrence had nine ancestors in the Ohio 6th Cal and three in the 105th Ohio Infantry, four of these ancestors died in the Civil War. A few items Lawrence brought with him were a sabra belonging to Corporal Brockway, of Hartsgrove, letters from Albert W. Stiles, who was the nephew of Platt R. Spencer and a photo album of identified soldiers.
The next meeting of ACGS will be, “Timelines to Advance Your Research, presented by Sandra Beane Milton,” September 22 at 1:00 P.M.at the Geneva Library, meeting room. The next board meeting will be 1:00 P.M. on October 6. The public is welcome at all meetings.
Ashtabula County will be celebrating 200 years as an organized county, January 22, 2011. ACGS is looking for family stories of families living in Ashtabula County in 1811. If anyone has a diary or letters describing the life here, please bring them to the Geneva Library, Genealogy Room.
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Edgewood Cemetery
We started putting photos of Edgewood Cemetery on line at this link. It is a large cemetery and will take time to get all the photos on line. The cemetery is located on the west side of State Rd., south of intersection with US Rt. 20 (E. Prospect Rd.) east side of Ashtabula River. Coordinates: 41° 52’ 14” N, 80° 46’ 28” We
A Google Map of cemetery can be found at this link.
Thanks to Larry and Phyllis Willis for the photos.
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The Genealogy Library in Geneva, Ashtabula County, OH has many photos that are unidentified. We continue with a photo from a collection of Ashtabula County District Library photos.
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The Weekly Welcome 11 Sept. 1878
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It may be a few lines from this township might interest the readers of our paper. Perhaps it is not known to very many of them that just at present we are having quite an excitement over the oil question, several hundred acres of land has been leased and drilling has been commenced in earnest, penetrating the solid rock from fifteen to twenty feet per day. A depth of a hundred and twenty feet has already been reached with some show of oil and a considerable amount of gas. And the prospecsums to be encouraging. The oil found is of a superiour quality and it would not be very surdrising it Rock Creek should become one of the important oil producting towns in the county. It is very dry and vegetation is suffering for want of rain. Large fires have broken out in the west part of the township and have burned over considerable teritory and unless we get rain soon it is feared will do much damage to standing timber.
Sept. 3. More anon, David
This article was published in the “The Weekly Welcome”
Vol. 1 Orwell, Ashtabula County, Ohio Wednesday, September 11, 1878 No. 2
Page 2 Column 3
The newspaper is on microfilm at the Geneva Public Library ‘Genealogy Room” Geneva, Ohio
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