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unusual facts about Lawrence County, MO



Arkansas Territorial Militia

In early 1815 Lawrence County was created in the area of present day northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.

Halltown, Missouri

Halltown has been in existence since about 1833, when original founder I.V. Morris and the first settlers came to the area from Lawrence County, Tennessee.

Ira D. Sankey

Ira David Sankey, son of David Sankey, known as the father of Lawrence County, and Mary Leeper Sankey, was born August 28, 1840, in Edinburg, on the outskirts of New Castle, Pennsylvania.

Lawrence County, Kentucky

The bridge from Louisa, in eastern Lawrence County, to Fort Gay, West Virginia is something of a geographic and architectural oddity.

Lawrence County, Missouri

All of Lawrence County is a part of Missouri’s 29th District in the Missouri Senate and is currently represented by Jack Goodman (R-Mount Vernon.

Lawrence County, Ohio

About 3200 of Lawrence County's men were soldiers in the Union Army by 1862 in the American Civil War.

Lawrence County, South Dakota

Lawrence had previously served in the Dakota Territorial Legislature, as a Sergeant at Arms for the United States House of Representatives, and a US Marshal for the Dakota territory.

Monett, Missouri

Monett is a city in Monett Township in Barry County and Pierce Township in Lawrence County, Missouri, United States.

Perry Cohea

He moved to Lawrence County, Mississippi in 1822 and briefly became a merchant in Jackson, Mississippi in 1834.

Stotts City, Missouri

In the 1930s and 1940s, the Farmers Exchange Co-op provided feed grain and seed for most of western Lawrence County.

Summit, Kentucky

In addition to Boyd County, troopers from Post 14 serve Carter, Greenup and Lawrence Counties.

Symmes Township, Hamilton County, Ohio

Named for John Cleves Symmes, it is one of two Symmes Townships statewide; the other Symmes Township is located in Lawrence County.

Turner Saunders

Saunders lived in the mansion currently known as the Goode-Hall House, also known as Saunders' Hall, in Lawrence County, Alabama.


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