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Local Newspapers for the Old Saint Peter Cemetery ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of the Old St. Peter Cemetery.

Our newspaper information for the Old St. Peter 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 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> of the Old St. Peter 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 Old St. Peter Cemetery.

  • Published In Magee
  • Published In Mendenhall
  • Published In Mize   [Smith County, MS]
  • Published In Williamsburg   [Covington County, MS]
    • Simpson County News (from Covington County Journal)
    • The Blow Torch (from Republican Star)
    • The Magee Courier (from The Watchman-Journal)
    • The Mize Headlight (from The Watchman)
      • The first year of publication was in The Watchman, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Mize Headlight
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88067140
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17852966
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Williamsburg.
  • Published In Collins   [Covington County, MS]
    • Simpson County News (from Covington County News)
    • The Blow Torch (from Mississippi Herald)
    • The Magee Courier (from The Collins Commercial)
    • The Mize Headlight (from The News-Commercial)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Collins.

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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 Old St. Peter Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.8468, Longitude: -89.8659       In this case, the coordinates for the Old St. Peter Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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