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Local Newspapers for the Watson Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Watson 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 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of the Watson 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 Watson Cemetery.

  • Published In Pinebluff   [Moore County, NC]
  • Published In Hamlet
    • Southern Home-Seeker's Guide (from Central Argus)
    • Daily Rocket (from Hamlet Messenger)
      • Years of publication:  Hamlet Messenger to 1920
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Daily Rocket
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN98058816
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 39304817
    • Piedmont Dispatch (from Richmond County This Week)
    • Richmond County Daily Journal (from The Hamlet Advertiser)
    • Richmond County Journal (from The Hamlet Enterprise)
    • Richmond Headlight (from The Hamlet News Messenger)
    • Rockingham Post-Dispatch (from The Hamlet News-Messenger)
    • Rockingham Post-Dispatch (from The Hamlet News)
    • Rockingham Rocket (from The News Messenger)
    • Rockingham Rocket (from The News Messenger)
    • Selder's Weekly (from The News Of Richmond County This Week)
      • Years of publication:  The News Of Richmond County This Week to 1981
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Selder's Weekly
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN95072302
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 32045097
    • Spirit Of The South (from The News)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Hamlet.
  • Published In Rockingham
    • Southern Home-Seeker's Guide (from Daily Rocket)
    • Daily Rocket (from Piedmont Dispatch)
      • Years of publication:  Piedmont Dispatch to 1917
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Daily Rocket
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91068735
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24789305
    • Piedmont Dispatch (from Richmond County Daily Journal)
    • Richmond County Daily Journal (from Richmond County Journal)
    • Richmond County Journal (from Richmond Headlight)
    • Richmond Headlight (from Rockingham Post-Dispatch)
    • Rockingham Post-Dispatch (from Rockingham Post-Dispatch)
    • Rockingham Post-Dispatch (from Rockingham Rocket)
    • Rockingham Rocket (from Rockingham Rocket)
    • Rockingham Rocket (from Selder's Weekly)
    • Selder's Weekly (from Spirit Of The South)
    • Spirit Of The South (from The Anglo-Saxon)
    • The Anglo-Saxon (from The Bee)
    • The Bee (from The Pee Dee Bee)
      • Years of publication:  The Pee Dee Bee to 1879
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Bee
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91068727
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24773055
    • The Pee Dee Bee (from The Pee Dee Courier)
    • The Pee Dee Courier (from The Post)
    • The Post (from The Richmond Rocket)
      • Years of publication:  The Richmond Rocket to 1885
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Post
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91068742
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24863873
    • The Richmond Rocket (from The Rocket)
    • The Rocket (from The Rockingham Times)
      • Years of publication:  The Rockingham Times to 1922
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Rocket
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN91068762
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 24941120
    • The Rockingham Times (from The Southern Index)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Rockingham.
  • Published In Aberdeen   [Moore County, NC]
    • Southern Home-Seeker's Guide (from Moore County Citizen News-Record)
    • Daily Rocket (from The Dixie Herald)
      • Years of publication:  The Dixie Herald to 1936
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Daily Rocket
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN92074089
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 26794658
    • Piedmont Dispatch (from The Sandhill Citizen And News Outlook)
      • Years of publication:  The Sandhill Citizen And News Outlook to 1985
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Piedmont Dispatch
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN83003608
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 10161231
    • Richmond County Daily Journal (from The Sandhill Citizen)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Aberdeen.
  • Published In Pinehurst   [Moore County, NC]

The official website for Richmond County: www.co.richmond.nc.us/

The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/

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 Watson Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0054, Longitude: -79.5906       In this case, the coordinates for the Watson Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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