Hi my name is Foxie Hagerty & I would like to welcome you to this Lawrence County, IL  Site! I very much am in need of your contributions of cemetery listings, tombstone photos and also on cemeteries which are soon to be lost and not to be found again.  So, let's hear from you out there!!! Thanks & I know your Ancestors will thank you too.

This county site is up for adoption. Email me if you would like to adopt, transcribe cemetery listings, have tombstone photos to submit, anything feel free to click on my doggie to email me.  Thanks for your kindness.

tombstone feel free to email me.....

LAWRENCE COUNTY
HISTORICAL SOCIETY WEB SITE

****Send your digital or scanned Macoupin gravestone pictures to the county coordinator. Please limit the size of each picture to about 200kbs.
Please send the cemetery in which it from, township. type info on the stone in the email you attach your photo to. email as the attachment.****
Thanks for your help.

Always a works in progress

created Nov 14, 2007

Lawrence County was formed in 1821 out of Crawford and Edwards Counties. It was named for a Navy Officer, Captain James Lawrence, killed in action in 1813 while in command of the frigate USS Chesapeake.

Mortally wounded, he uttered the famous phrase "Don't give up the ship".