Lorena
The years creep slowly by, Lorena
The snow is on the grass again
The sun’s low down the sky, Lorena
The frost gleams where the flow’rs have been.
But the heart throbs on as warmly now,
As when the summer days were nigh;
Oh, the sun can never dip so low,
A-down affection’s cloudless sky.
A hundred months have passed, Lorena,
Since last I held that hand in mine,
And felt the pulse beat fast, Lorena,
Though mine beat faster far than thine.
Born on August 25, 1902, Anne was eldest of three daughters. Her parents, Dr. William F. and Erma Chloe Drayer Marting were both involved in the medical field. By the age of 14, Anne was joining the family business. She was responsible for baking 20 loaves of bread for the Marting Hospital two times per week. In 1921, Anne was the valedictorian of Ironton High School.
William Clark Barger was born in Cadmus, Ohio in Gallia County. His parents were James and Alice Lowry Barger. He was the nephew of Dr. Joseph, Dr.
Mark S. Bartram was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on November 10, 1829. His father had immigrated to Lawrence County in 1846. Mark lived in Bartramville until 1858. Then, he and his father moved to Ironton. His father became the county recorder.
Mark was in the steamboat business. He worked with Henry A. Jones.
In 1859, Mark Bartram was elected the Clerk of Lawrence County. He held this job for six years.
This picture is of John (1834-1912) and Rosa Patrick Blevins (1878-1935). John Blevins was a American Civil War Veteran. The picture was taken circa 1900.
Photo courtesy of Mrs. Rickie Bennett Longfellow
John H. Bothwell was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It was in Pittsburg where he learned the trade of nail making.
In 1837, he worked in a nail mill in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. There he met a man named Frederick Norton. The two men would form a close bond and stay friends until a few years before Bothwell died.
In 1864, John came to Ironton. His first job here was at the Belfonte Mill.
Born on May 24, 1810 in New Rochester, Massachusetts, Dr. Caleb Briggs was the son of Caleb (b. December 28, 1769) and Deliverance “Delia” Burge Burgess (b. March 25, 1772) Briggs. Although little is known of Briggs’s early life, we do know he was educated as a physician, but he often worked as a geologist.
The house known as the Hattie Kingsbury Burr home was located at the corner of Sixth and Jefferson Street (519 South Sixth Street). The house was built in 1881 by W. S. Kirker. Mr. Kirker was a teller at Second National Bank and a member of the drug firm Kirker, Norton and Otten on the corner of Third and Center Street.
Oak Ridge, the spacious home of Dr. A. Justine Payne located on Eighth Street near Park Avenue (111 South Eighth Street) was once called the ‘GOP Mansion of Ironton.” The home was originally erected by W. C. Amos, one of the seven iron masters who organized Big Etna Furnace. Big Etna was the largest blast furnace in the world in 1873. All of the Big Etna’s iron masters built large homes. Amos was not an exception.
Located at 506 South Sixth Street in Ironton, the Gray house is an example of Victorian-Italian Villa architecture. The house was originally built by James Ferguson in 1866 and is a three and a half story brick building.
