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Local Newspapers for the Blue Ridge Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Blue Ridge 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 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> of the Blue Ridge 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 Blue Ridge Cemetery.

  • Published In Farmer City   [De Witt County, IL]
    • De Witt County Tribune (from De Witt County Tribune)
      • The first year of publication was in De Witt County Tribune, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the De Witt County Tribune
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90054485
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 21545065
    • Farmer City Herald (from Farmer City Herald)
    • Farmer City Journal And Mansfield Express (from Farmer City Journal And Mansfield Express)
    • Farmer City Journal Saybrook Gazette And Arrowsmith News (from Farmer City Journal Saybrook Gazette And Arrowsmith News)
    • Farmer City Journal (from Farmer City Journal)
    • Farmer City Journal (from Farmer City Journal)
    • Farmer City Reporter (from Farmer City Reporter)
      • The first year of publication was in Farmer City Reporter, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Farmer City Reporter
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN85038340
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 12308716
    • The Eagle (from The Eagle)
      • Years of publication:  The Eagle to 1984
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Eagle
      • Holdings for:   LCCN 2009271113
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 428734434
    • The Farmer City Journal (from The Farmer City Journal)
    • The Farmer City News (from The Farmer City News)
    • The Farmer City Republican (from The Farmer City Republican)
    • The Journal (from The Journal)
    • The Public Reaper (from The Public Reaper)
    • The Sun (from The Sun)
      • The first year of publication was in The Sun, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Sun
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90054510
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 21556343
    • Weekly Reaper (from Weekly Reaper)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Farmer City.
  • Published In Mansfield
  • Published In Bellflower   [McLean County, IL]
  • Published In Mahomet   [Champaign County, IL]
  • Published In De Land
  • Published In Fisher   [Champaign County, IL]
  • Published In Le Roy   [McLean County, IL]
    • De Witt County Tribune (from Le Roy Eagle)
    • Farmer City Herald (from Le Roy Enterprise)
      • The first year of publication was in Le Roy Enterprise, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Farmer City Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87082274
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15248634
    • Farmer City Journal And Mansfield Express (from Le Roy Semi-Weekly Laconic)
    • Farmer City Journal Saybrook Gazette And Arrowsmith News (from The Eagle)
    • Farmer City Journal (from The Le Roy Journal Free Press And News)
    • Farmer City Journal (from The Le Roy Laconic)
    • Farmer City Reporter (from The Le Roy Weekly News)
    • The Eagle (from The LeRoy Free Press)
      • The first year of publication was in The LeRoy Free Press, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Eagle
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87082272
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15248421
    • The Farmer City Journal (from The LeRoy Journal)
    • The Farmer City News (from The LeRoy Journal)
    • The Farmer City Republican (from The LeRoy Weekly Exchange)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Le Roy.
  • Published In Arrowsmith   [McLean County, IL]

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Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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 Blue Ridge Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2667, Longitude: -88.5515       In this case, the coordinates for the Blue Ridge Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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