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Local Newspapers for the Watkins Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Watkins 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 Watkins 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 Watkins Cemetery.

  • Published In West Point
    • Clay County Leader (from Clay County Leader)
    • Daily Times-Leader (from Daily Times-Leader)
    • Southern Broad-Axe (from Southern Broad-Axe)
    • The Daily Times-Herald (from The Daily Times-Herald)
    • The Dixie Press (from The Dixie Press)
    • The West Point Leader (from The West Point Leader)
    • West Point Citizen (from West Point Citizen)
    • West Point Herald (from West Point Herald)
      • The first year of publication was in West Point Herald, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the West Point Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87090493
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15201708
    • West Point Times Leader (from West Point Times Leader)
    • West Point Times (from West Point Times)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in West Point.
  • Published In Starkville   [Oktibbeha County, MS]
    • Clay County Leader (from East Mississippi Times)
    • Daily Times-Leader (from East Mississippi Times)
    • Southern Broad-Axe (from Oktibbeha Citizen)
    • The Daily Times-Herald (from Southern Live-stock Journal)
    • The Dixie Press (from Starkville Daily News)
    • The West Point Leader (from The East Mississippi Star)
    • West Point Citizen (from The Oktibbeha Record)
    • West Point Herald (from The Southern Farm Gazette)
    • West Point Times Leader (from The Starkville News)
    • West Point Times (from The Weekly Star)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Starkville.
  • Published In Maben   [Oktibbeha County, MS]
    • Clay County Leader (from News-Press)
    • Daily Times-Leader (from The Maben Meteor)
    • Southern Broad-Axe (from The Maben Press And The Sturgis Messenger)
      • Years of publication:  The Maben Press And The Sturgis Messenger to 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Southern Broad-Axe
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88067195
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18423159
    • The Daily Times-Herald (from The Maben Press)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Maben.

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 from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Watkins Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6435, Longitude: -88.8248       In this case, the coordinates for the Watkins Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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