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Local Newspapers for the Westwood Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Westwood 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 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> of the Westwood 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 Westwood Cemetery.

  • Published In Shawneetown
  • Published In Junction
  • Published In Ridgway
  • Published In Equality
    • Shawnee Chief (from Gallatin County Times)
      • Years of publication:  Gallatin County Times to 1934
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Shawnee Chief
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN93055574
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 27353461
    • The Junction Monitor (from The Daily Progress)
      • The first year of publication was in The Daily Progress, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Junction Monitor
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88086077
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17557440
    • The Ridgway Journal (from The Equality Times)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Equality.
  • Published In New Haven
  • Published In Uniontown   [Union County]
  • Published In Omaha
  • Published In Morganfield   [Union County]
    • Shawnee Chief (from The Morganfield Sun)
      • Years of publication:  The Morganfield Sun to 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Shawnee Chief
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88061157
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18109904
    • The Junction Monitor (from The Sun)
    • The Ridgway Journal (from The Twice-A-Week Post)
    • The Ridgway News (from The Union County Advocate)
    • Gallatin County Times (from Union County Advocate)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Morganfield.
  • Published In Sturgis   [Union County]
    • Shawnee Chief (from The Enterprise)
      • The first year of publication was in The Enterprise, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Shawnee Chief
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88061162
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18110513
    • The Junction Monitor (from The Index)
    • The Ridgway Journal (from The News Democrat)
    • The Ridgway News (from The Sturgis News)
    • Gallatin County Times (from The Sturgis Post)
    • The Daily Progress (from The Union County News Index)
    • The Equality Times (from You Name It)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Sturgis.
  • Published In Eldorado   [Saline County, IL]
  • Published In Cave-In-Rock   [Hardin County, IL]

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 things 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 Westwood Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7200, Longitude: -88.1631       In this case, the coordinates for the Westwood Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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