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Local Newspapers for the Mount Zion Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Mt. Zion 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 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of the Mt. Zion 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 Mt. Zion Cemetery.

  • Published In Stonington
  • Published In Blue Mound   [Macon County, IL]
  • Published In Mount Auburn
  • Published In Edinburg
  • Published In Taylorville
    • The Stonington Star (from After Dark)
    • The Mt. Auburn Tribune (from Christian County Courier And Democrat)
    • Blue Mound Leader (from Christian County Democrat)
    • The Cyclone (from Christian County Record)
      • Years of publication:  Christian County Record to 1941
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Cyclone
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054616
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23904498
    • The Independent (from Daily Advertiser)
    • After Dark (from Semi-Weekly Breeze)
      • Years of publication:  Semi-Weekly Breeze to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the After Dark
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054633
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24005748
    • Christian County Courier And Democrat (from Taylorville Daily News)
    • Christian County Democrat (from Taylorville Democrat)
    • Christian County Record (from The Calamity Howler)
    • Daily Advertiser (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 Daily Advertiser
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054627
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23956442
    • Semi-Weekly Breeze (from The Critical Observer)
    • Taylorville Daily News (from The Daily Breeze)
    • Taylorville Democrat (from The Daily Courier)
    • The Calamity Howler (from The Illinois Republican)
    • The Christian County Farmers' Journal (from The Independent Press)
    • The Critical Observer (from The Taylorville Daily Breeze Courier)
    • The Daily Breeze (from The Taylorville Daily Breeze)
    • The Daily Courier (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 Daily Courier
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054618
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23904599
    • The Illinois Republican (from The Taylorville Journal)
    • The Independent Press (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 Independent Press
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91054629
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 23956388
    • The Taylorville Daily Breeze Courier (from The Taylorville Record)
    • The Taylorville Daily Breeze (from The Weekly Breeze)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Taylorville.
  • Published In Moweaqua   [Shelby County, IL]
    • The Stonington Star (from Moawequa Call)
    • The Mt. Auburn Tribune (from The Moawequa Call-Mail)
    • Blue Mound Leader (from The Moawequa Register)
    • The Cyclone (from The Moweaqua News)
      • Years of publication:  The Moweaqua News to 1977
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Cyclone
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90054847
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 22778923
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Moweaqua.
  • Published In Illiopolis   [Sangamon County, IL]
  • Published In Mechanicsburg   [Sangamon County, IL]
  • Published In Macon   [Macon County, IL]
  • Published In Niantic   [Macon County, IL]
  • Published In Assumption
    • The Stonington Star (from Evening Gazette)
    • The Mt. Auburn Tribune (from The Assumption Independent)
    • Blue Mound Leader (from The Assumption Independent)
    • The Cyclone (from The Assumption News)
      • Years of publication:  The Assumption News to 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Cyclone
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN92061570
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 25835909
    • The Independent (from The Assumption Press)
    • After Dark (from The Assumption Record)
      • Years of publication:  The Assumption Record to 1875
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the After Dark
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95068595
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 32880412
    • Christian County Courier And Democrat (from The Prairie State Tribune)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Assumption.
  • Published In Harristown   [Macon County, IL]

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' 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 Mt. Zion Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6698, Longitude: -89.2392       In this case, the coordinates for the Mt. Zion Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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