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Local Newspapers for the Penn Ridge Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Penn 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 Penn 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 Penn Ridge Cemetery.

  • Published In Hanna City
  • Published In Canton   [Fulton County, IL]
    • Hanna City Times (from Big Creek Advertiser)
    • Big Creek Advertiser (from Canton Courier)
    • Canton Courier (from Canton Daily Ledger And Daily Register)
      • Years of publication:  Canton Daily Ledger And Daily Register to 1961
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Canton Courier
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN85033473
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 11986563
    • Canton Daily Ledger And Daily Register (from Canton Daily Ledger)
    • Canton Daily Ledger (from Canton Daily Ledger)
    • Canton Daily Ledger (from Canton Daily Register)
    • Canton Daily Register (from Canton Herald)
    • Canton Herald (from Canton Register)
    • Canton Register (from Canton Register)
    • Canton Register (from Canton Republican)
    • Canton Republican (from Canton Weekly Register)
    • Canton Weekly Register (from Canton Weekly Register)
    • Canton Weekly Register (from Daily Ledger)
    • Daily Ledger (from Fulton Advertiser)
      • The first year of publication was in Fulton Advertiser, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Daily Ledger
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN2005062018
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 57483248
    • Fulton Advertiser (from Fulton Banner)
    • Fulton Banner (from Fulton County Ledger)
      • Years of publication:  Fulton County Ledger to 1913
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Fulton Banner
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN85033421
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 11956513
    • Fulton County Ledger (from Social Justice)
    • Social Justice (from Spoon River's Sunday Free Press)
      • Years of publication:  Spoon River's Sunday Free Press to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Social Justice
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN2004061940
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 55668115
    • Spoon River's Sunday Free Press (from The Fulton Republican)
    • The Fulton Republican (from The Fulton Telegraph)
    • The Fulton Telegraph (from The Western Telegraph)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Canton.
  • Published In Elmwood
    • Hanna City Times (from Elmwood Chronicle)
    • Big Creek Advertiser (from Elmwood Gazette)
    • Canton Courier (from Elmwood Semi-Weekly Gazette)
      • Years of publication:  Elmwood Semi-Weekly Gazette to 188?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Canton Courier
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN92054521
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 25576821
    • Canton Daily Ledger And Daily Register (from Elmwood Weekly Gazette)
    • Canton Daily Ledger (from Industrial Journal)
    • Canton Daily Ledger (from The Elmwood Gazette)
    • Canton Daily Register (from The Elmwood Messenger)
    • Canton Herald (from Tri-County News)
      • Years of publication:  Tri-County News to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Canton Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN94060620
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 31634872
    • Canton Register (from Tri-County News)
    • Canton Register (from Tri-County News)
    • Canton Republican (from Tri-County News)
    • Canton Weekly Register (from Tri-County News)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Elmwood.
  • Published In Bartonville
  • Published In Yates City   [Knox County, IL]
    • Hanna City Times (from Industrial Banner)
      • The first year of publication was in Industrial Banner, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Hanna City Times
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN93057186
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 29197125
    • Big Creek Advertiser (from The East Knox News)
    • Canton Courier (from Yates City Banner)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Yates City.
  • Published In Brimfield
  • Published In Pekin   [Tazewell County, IL]
    • Hanna City Times (from Daily Times)
    • Big Creek Advertiser (from Illinois Palladium)
    • Canton Courier (from Legal Tender)
      • The first year of publication was in Legal Tender, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Canton Courier
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90054581
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 21930149
    • Canton Daily Ledger And Daily Register (from Pekin Daily Register)
    • Canton Daily Ledger (from Pekin Daily Times)
    • Canton Daily Ledger (from Pekin Daily Tribune)
      • The first year of publication was in Pekin Daily Tribune, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Canton Daily Ledger
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN90054576
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 21930064
    • Canton Daily Register (from Pekin Free Press)
    • Canton Herald (from Pekin Free Press)
    • Canton Register (from Pekin Today)
    • Canton Register (from Pekin Weekly Bulletin)
    • Canton Republican (from Pekin Weekly Plaindealer)
    • Canton Weekly Register (from Pekiner Freie Presse)
    • Canton Weekly Register (from Tazewell County Republican)
    • Daily Ledger (from Tazewell County Tribune)
      • The first year of publication was in Tazewell County Tribune, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Daily Ledger
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN2001063264
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 48117785
    • Fulton Advertiser (from Tazewell Register)
    • Fulton Banner (from Tazewell Republican)
      • Years of publication:  Tazewell Republican to 186?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Fulton Banner
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86063873
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13528538
    • Fulton County Ledger (from Tazewell Telegraph)
    • Social Justice (from The Daily Evening Post)
      • The first year of publication was in The Daily Evening Post, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Social Justice
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87082523
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15378490
    • Spoon River's Sunday Free Press (from The Pekin Daily Bulletin)
    • The Fulton Republican (from The Pekin Register)
    • The Fulton Telegraph (from The Pekin Weekly Times)
    • The Western Telegraph (from The Tazewell Mirror)
    • Elmwood Chronicle (from The Tazewell Reporter)
    • Elmwood Gazette (from The Tazewell Weekly Mirror)
      • Years of publication:  The Tazewell Weekly Mirror to 1854
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Elmwood Gazette
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN84038605
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 11358478
    • Elmwood Semi-Weekly Gazette (from The Tazewell Whig And Pekin Commercial Advertiser)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Pekin.

The official website for Peoria County: www.co.peoria.il.us/

The official website for State of Illinois: https://illinois.gov

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 drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Penn Ridge Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6398, Longitude: -89.8784       In this case, the coordinates for the Penn Ridge Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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