Local Newspapers for the Oldtown Cemetery ...
Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of the Oldtown Cemetery.
Our newspaper information for the Oldtown 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 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> of the Oldtown 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 Oldtown Cemetery.
- Published In Bridgeport
- Published In Chico
- Published In Paradise
- Published In Decatur
- The Bridgeport Index (from Advance Guard)
- The Bridgeport Times (from D.B.C. Whim-wham)
- Paradise Messenger (from Decatur Tribune)
- The first year of publication was in Decatur Tribune, with an unknown end date
- Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
- Catalog Card for the Paradise Messenger
- Holdings for: LCCN SN93068239
- Locate a copy thru WorldCat: OCLC 28281883
- The Chico Review (from The Commercial Advertiser)
- Advance Guard (from The Decatur News)
- D.B.C. Whim-wham (from The Decatur Times)
- Decatur Tribune (from The News Review)
- The Commercial Advertiser (from The Wise Times)
- The Decatur News (from Wise County Messenger)
- Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Decatur.
- Published In Alvord
- The Bridgeport Index (from The Alvord Banner)
- The Bridgeport Times (from The Alvord Budget)
- Paradise Messenger (from The Alvord News)
- Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Alvord.
- Published In Rhome
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions 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 Oldtown Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.1973, Longitude: -97.7809 In this case, the coordinates for the Oldtown Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |