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Local Newspapers for the Tooms Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Tooms 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 Tooms 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 Tooms Cemetery.

  • Published In Grand Saline
  • Published In Emory   [Rains County, TX]
    • The Grand Saline Sun (from Rains County Leader)
    • Rains County Leader (from Rains County Record)
      • The first year of publication was in Rains County Record, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Rains County Leader
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86088947
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 14201386
    • Rains County Record (from The News)
    • The News (from The Rains County Sentinel)
      • The first year of publication was in The Rains County Sentinel, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083972
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18283263
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Emory.
  • Published In Wills Point
    • The Grand Saline Sun (from The Local-Chronicle)
    • Rains County Leader (from The Van Zandter)
    • Rains County Record (from The Wills Point Chronicle)
    • The News (from Van Zandt News)
      • Years of publication:  Van Zandt News to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN84006185
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 10843420
    • The Rains County Sentinel (from Wills Point Observer)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Wills Point.
  • Published In Canton
    • The Grand Saline Sun (from Canton Herald)
    • Rains County Leader (from County Post)
    • Rains County Record (from Telephone)
      • The first year of publication was in Telephone, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Rains County Record
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083962
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18276841
    • The News (from The Canton Telephone)
      • Years of publication:  The Canton Telephone to ????
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87090355
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15924327
    • The Rains County Sentinel (from The Canton Texan)
    • The Local-Chronicle (from The Canton Weekly News)
    • The Van Zandter (from The Canton Weekly Times)
    • The Wills Point Chronicle (from The Free State News)
    • Van Zandt News (from The Texan-telephone)
    • Wills Point Observer (from The Van Zandter)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Canton.
  • Published In Van
  • Published In Elmo   [Kaufman County, TX]
  • Published In Mineola   [Wood County, TX]
    • The Grand Saline Sun (from Alliance Courier)
    • Rains County Leader (from Mineola Hawkeye)
    • Rains County Record (from The Mineola Advertiser)
    • The News (from The Mineola Courier)
      • The first year of publication was in The Mineola Courier, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86090738
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15117971
    • The Rains County Sentinel (from The Mineola Daily Argus)
    • The Local-Chronicle (from The Mineola Monitor)
      • The first year of publication was in The Mineola Monitor, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Local-Chronicle
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86089675
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 14509482
    • The Van Zandter (from The Mineola Reporter)
    • The Wills Point Chronicle (from The National Co-Operator)
    • Van Zandt News (from The Weekly Mineola Monitor)
      • Years of publication:  The Weekly Mineola Monitor to 18??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Van Zandt News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86089684
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 14472641
    • Wills Point Observer (from The Wood County Flag)
      • The first year of publication was in The Wood County Flag, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Wills Point Observer
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88084239
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18478807
    • Canton Herald (from The Wood County Record)
      • Years of publication:  The Wood County Record to 1982
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Canton Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88084090
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18390279
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Mineola.
  • Published In Quinlan   [Hunt County, TX]
    • The Grand Saline Sun (from The Quinlaan Tawakoni News)
    • Rains County Leader (from The Quinlan Review)
    • Rains County Record (from The Quinlan Review)
    • The News (from The Tawakoni News)
      • Years of publication:  The Tawakoni News to current
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN88083973
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 18283357
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Quinlan.

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 Tooms Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.7482, Longitude: -95.8264       In this case, the coordinates for the Tooms Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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