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Local Newspapers for the Oakes Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Oakes 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 23 miles [37 km]<1> of the Oakes 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 Oakes Cemetery.

  • Published In Jewett   [Leon County, TX]
  • Published In Cotton Gin   [Freestone County, TX]
  • Published In Groesbeck
    • Jewett Messenger (from Groesbeck Journal)
    • The Weekly Messenger (from The Groesbeeck Clarion)
    • The Freestone Herald (from The Limestone New Era)
      • The first year of publication was in The Limestone New Era, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Freestone Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083901
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18202072
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Groesbeck.
  • Published In Mexia
    • Jewett Messenger (from Mexia Evening Ledger)
    • The Weekly Messenger (from Mexia Evening News)
    • The Freestone Herald (from Mexia Oil Ledger)
    • Groesbeck Journal (from The Bi-stone Weekly News)
    • The Groesbeeck Clarion (from The Evening News Ledger)
    • The Limestone New Era (from The Evening News)
    • The Thornton Hustler (from The Mexia Daily News)
    • Mexia Evening Ledger (from The Mexia Democrat)
      • The first year of publication was in The Mexia Democrat, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Mexia Evening Ledger
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083889
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18186723
    • Mexia Evening News (from The Mexia Ledger)
    • Mexia Oil Ledger (from The Mexia Weekly Herald)
    • The Bi-stone Weekly News (from The Mexia Weekly Ledger)
    • The Evening News Ledger (from The State Herald)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Mexia.
  • Published In Thornton
  • Published In Marquez   [Leon County, TX]
  • Published In Tehuacana
  • Published In Wortham   [Freestone County, TX]
  • Published In Kosse

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 Oakes Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.4899, Longitude: -96.3026    









 

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