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Local Newspapers for the Stafford Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Stafford 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 Stafford 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 Stafford Cemetery.

  • Published In Lecompte
  • Published In Bunkie   [Avoyelles Parish, LA]
  • Published In Cottonport   [Avoyelles Parish, LA]
  • Published In Marksville   [Avoyelles Parish, LA]
    • The Lecompte Drummer (from Avoyelles Enterprise)
    • The Lecompte Messenger (from Avoyelles Republican)
    • The Bunkie Blade (from The Avoyelles News-leader, The Weekly News & Cottonport Leader)
      • Years of publication:  The Avoyelles News-leader, The Weekly News & Cottonport Leader to 1982
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Bunkie Blade
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN89059233
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 19718692
    • The Bunkie Record (from The Avoyelles Pelican)
    • The Living Way (from The Avoyelles Pelican)
    • The Record (from The Bulletin-Review)
      • The first year of publication was in The Bulletin-Review, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Record
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88064215
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17561455
    • The Cottonport Leader (from The Expositor)
    • Avoyelles Enterprise (from The Greater Avoyelles Journal)
    • Avoyelles Republican (from The Marksville Bulletin)
    • The Avoyelles News-leader, The Weekly News & Cottonport Leader (from The Marksville Review)
    • The Avoyelles Pelican (from The Marksville Weekly News)
    • The Avoyelles Pelican (from The New Enterprise)
    • The Bulletin-Review (from The Pelican)
    • The Expositor (from The Prairie Star And Official Gazette Of The Parish)
      • Years of publication:  The Prairie Star And Official Gazette Of The Parish to 18??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Expositor
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88064210
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17562660
    • The Greater Avoyelles Journal (from The Review-Blade)
    • The Marksville Bulletin (from The Villager)
    • The Marksville Review (from The Weekly News)
    • The Marksville Weekly News (from The Weekly News)
    • The New Enterprise (from The Weekly Register)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Marksville.

The official website for Rapides Parish: www.rppj.com/

The official website for State of Louisiana: https://www.louisiana.gov/

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 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 Stafford Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.0241, Longitude: -92.3040       In this case, the coordinates for the Stafford Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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