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Local Newspapers for the Houston Cemetery ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of the Houston Cemetery.

Our newspaper information for the Houston Cemetery is based on data supplied by the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

Hint: When we started searching newspapers, we only looked for obituaries. Eventually we realized that our search was too narrow and there was much that we were missing. Now we include things like around-the-town and gossip columns, birth and death announcements.

We have some family members who owned businesses and now we search for articles and advertistments for those businesses. Some family members could have been better behaved and a search of police blotters contained some surprises.

The following newspapers were published within 18 miles [29 km]<1> of the Houston Cemetery. These papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in the order of their distance from the Houston Cemetery.

  • Published In Livingston
    • Our Southern Home (from Our Southern Home)
    • Sumter County Whig (from Sumter County Whig)
    • Sumter Gazette (from Sumter Gazette)
    • The Home-Record (from The Home-Record)
    • The Livingston Journal (from The Livingston Journal)
    • The Livingston Messenger (from The Livingston Messenger)
    • The Sumter County Sun (from The Sumter County Sun)
    • The Sumter Democrat (from The Sumter Democrat)
    • The Weekly Messenger (from The Weekly Messenger)
    • Voice Of Sumter (from Voice Of Sumter)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Livingston.
  • Published In Epes
    • Our Southern Home (from Sumter County Call)
    • Sumter County Whig (from The Epes Tribune)
    • Sumter Gazette (from The Sumter Enterprise)
      • Years of publication:  The Sumter Enterprise to 191?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Sumter Gazette
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88050071
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17698936
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Epes.
  • Published In York
    • Our Southern Home (from Sumter County Journal)
    • Sumter County Whig (from The York Herald)
    • Sumter Gazette (from The York Press)
    • The Home-Record (from The York Weekly Press)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in York.
  • Published In Gainesville
    • Our Southern Home (from Alabama Reporter)
    • Sumter County Whig (from Gainesville Dispatch)
    • Sumter Gazette (from The Daily Army Argus And Crisis)
      • Years of publication:  The Daily Army Argus And Crisis to 18??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Sumter Gazette
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88050177
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13979898
    • The Home-Record (from The Gainesville Messenger)
    • The Livingston Journal (from The Gainesville Reporter)
    • The Livingston Messenger (from The Gainesville Times)
    • The Sumter County Sun (from The Independent)
    • The Sumter Democrat (from The News)
    • The Weekly Messenger (from The Sumter Banner)
      • The first year of publication was in The Sumter Banner, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Weekly Messenger
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87050299
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 16621210
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Gainesville.
  • Published In Forkland   [Greene County, AL]
  • Published In Geiger

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Houston Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.6201, Longitude: -88.1689       In this case, the coordinates for the Houston Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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