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Local Newspapers for the Finley Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Finley 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 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of the Finley 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 Finley Cemetery.

  • Published In Edinburg
  • Published In Pawnee   [Sangamon County, IL]
  • Published In Rochester   [Sangamon County, IL]
    • Edinburg Herald (from The Herald)
    • The Edinburg Herald (from The Rochester & Lake Springfield Herald)
    • The Pawnee Herald (from The Rochester Herald)
    • The Pawnee Post (from The Rochester Times)
    • The Herald (from The Rochester Weekly Item)
      • The first year of publication was in The Rochester Weekly Item, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90054677
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 22459943
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Rochester.
  • Published In Taylorville
    • Edinburg Herald (from After Dark)
      • The first year of publication was in After Dark, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Edinburg Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054624
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23956834
    • The Edinburg Herald (from Christian County Courier And Democrat)
    • The Pawnee Herald (from Christian County Democrat)
    • The Pawnee Post (from Christian County Record)
    • The Herald (from Daily Advertiser)
      • Years of publication:  Daily Advertiser to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN 2010271288
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 649433069
    • The Rochester & Lake Springfield Herald (from Semi-Weekly Breeze)
    • The Rochester Herald (from Taylorville Daily News)
    • The Rochester Times (from Taylorville Democrat)
    • The Rochester Weekly Item (from The Calamity Howler)
    • After Dark (from The Christian County Farmers' Journal)
      • Years of publication:  The Christian County Farmers' Journal to 18??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the After Dark
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054627
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23956442
    • Christian County Courier And Democrat (from The Critical Observer)
    • Christian County Democrat (from The Daily Breeze)
    • Christian County Record (from The Daily Courier)
    • Daily Advertiser (from The Illinois Republican)
    • Semi-Weekly Breeze (from The Independent Press)
      • The first year of publication was in The Independent Press, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Semi-Weekly Breeze
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054619
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23904621
    • Taylorville Daily News (from The Taylorville Daily Breeze Courier)
    • Taylorville Democrat (from The Taylorville Daily Breeze)
    • The Calamity Howler (from The Taylorville Flag)
      • The first year of publication was in The Taylorville Flag, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Calamity Howler
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054618
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23904599
    • The Christian County Farmers' Journal (from The Taylorville Journal)
    • The Critical Observer (from The Taylorville Journal)
      • The first year of publication was in The Taylorville Journal, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Critical Observer
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054629
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23956388
    • The Daily Breeze (from The Taylorville Record)
    • The Daily Courier (from The Weekly Breeze)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Taylorville.
  • Published In Divernon   [Sangamon County, IL]
  • Published In Mechanicsburg   [Sangamon County, IL]

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 Finley Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6345, Longitude: -89.4645       In this case, the coordinates for the Finley Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).