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Local Newspapers for the Afton Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Afton 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 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> of the Afton 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 Afton Cemetery.

  • Published In Roby
    • Rotan Advance And Roby Star-Record (from Fisher County Call)
    • Fisher County Call (from Roby Banner)
    • Roby Banner (from The Roby Bazoo)
      • Years of publication:  The Roby Bazoo to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Roby Banner
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87090713
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 16668708
    • The Roby Bazoo (from The Roby Star-Record)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Roby.
  • Published In Rotan
  • Published In Radium   [Jones County, TX]
  • Published In Aspermont   [Stonewall County, TX]
  • Published In Anson   [Jones County, TX]
    • Rotan Advance And Roby Star-Record (from The Anson News)
    • Fisher County Call (from The Jones County Observer)
    • Roby Banner (from The Texas Western And The Jones County Calliope)
      • The first year of publication was in The Texas Western And The Jones County Calliope, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Roby Banner
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083594
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17997600
    • The Roby Bazoo (from The Weekly Guide)
      • The first year of publication was in The Weekly Guide, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Roby Bazoo
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86088034
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13882102
    • The Roby Star-Record (from The Western News)
    • The Radium Record (from The Western Observer)
    • The Aspermont News (from Western-Enterprise)
    • The Aspermont Star (from Western-Reporter)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Anson.
  • Published In Stamford   [Haskell County, TX]
    • Rotan Advance And Roby Star-Record (from Stamford American And The Stamford Leader)
    • Fisher County Call (from Stamford American)
    • Roby Banner (from Stamford American)
      • Years of publication:  Stamford American to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Roby Banner
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87091231
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 17159672
    • The Roby Bazoo (from Stamford News-Tribune)
    • The Roby Star-Record (from The Stamford American And Stamford Leader)
    • The Radium Record (from The Stamford Leader)
    • The Aspermont News (from The Stamford News)
    • The Aspermont Star (from The Stamford Tribune)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Stamford.
  • Published In Rule   [Haskell County, TX]
  • Published In Avoca   [Jones County, TX]

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 drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Afton Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.8943, Longitude: -100.2299    









 

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