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Local Newspapers for the Fontenot Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Fontenot 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 18 miles [29 km]<1> of the Fontenot 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 Fontenot Cemetery.

  • Published In Ville Platte
  • Published In Bunkie   [Avoyelles Parish, LA]
  • Published In Mamou
  • Published In Cottonport   [Avoyelles Parish, LA]
  • Published In Opelousas   [Saint Landry Parish, LA]
    • The Evangeline Banner (from Clarion-News)
    • The Gazette (from Clarion-Progress)
      • Years of publication:  Clarion-Progress to 1928
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Gazette
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88064251
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17616382
    • The Ville Platte Gazette (from Daily Clarion-Progress)
    • The Acadian Press (from Daily World)
    • The Mamou Acadian Press (from Daily World)
    • The Bunkie Blade (from Hebdomadal Enquirer, And St. Landry, Lafayette, Avoyelles, And Calcasieu Advertiser)
      • Years of publication:  Hebdomadal Enquirer, And St. Landry, Lafayette, Avoyelles, And Calcasieu Advertiser to 18??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Bunkie Blade
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN83016695
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 9991580
    • The Bunkie Record (from Opelousas Daily World)
    • The Living Way (from Opelousas Gazette)
    • The Record (from Opelousas News And Clarion-Progress)
      • Years of publication:  Opelousas News And Clarion-Progress to 1928
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Record
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88064253
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17616370
    • Clarion-News (from Opelousas News)
      • Years of publication:  Opelousas News to 1928
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Clarion-News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88064252
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17616360
    • Clarion-Progress (from People's Tribune)
      • The first year of publication was in People's Tribune, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Clarion-Progress
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88064623
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18452588
    • Daily Clarion-Progress (from St. Landry Clarion)
    • Daily World (from St. Landry Clarion)
    • Daily World (from St. Landry Democrat)
    • Hebdomadal Enquirer, And St. Landry, Lafayette, Avoyelles, And Calcasieu Advertiser (from St. Landry Republican)
    • Opelousas Daily World (from The Bureau Letter)
    • Opelousas Gazette (from The Evangelist)
      • The first year of publication was in The Evangelist, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Opelousas Gazette
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88064701
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18839841
    • Opelousas News And Clarion-Progress (from The Opelousas Courier)
    • Opelousas News (from The Opelousas Courier)
    • People's Tribune (from The Opelousas Enterprise)
    • St. Landry Clarion (from The Opelousas Herald)
    • St. Landry Clarion (from The Opelousas Journal)
    • St. Landry Democrat (from The Opelousas Journal)
    • St. Landry Republican (from The Opelousas Patriot)
    • The Bureau Letter (from The Opelousas Patriot)
    • The Evangelist (from The St. Landry Commoner)
    • The Opelousas Courier (from The St. Landry Progress)
    • The Opelousas Courier (from The St. Landry Progress)
    • The Opelousas Enterprise (from The St. Landry Whig)
    • The Opelousas Herald (from The St. Landry Whig)
    • The Opelousas Journal (from The Star-Progress)
    • The Opelousas Journal (from The Star-Progress)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Opelousas.

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things 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 Fontenot Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.7613, Longitude: -92.2410       In this case, the coordinates for the Fontenot Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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