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Local Newspapers for the Pleasant Grove Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Pleasant Grove 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 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> of the Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove Cemetery.

  • Published In South Boston
    • Halifax Gazette (from Halifax Gazette)
    • News & Record (from News & Record)
    • The Gazette-Virginian (from The Gazette-Virginian)
    • The News (from The News)
      • Years of publication:  The News to 1929
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN96094026
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 34630914
    • The South Boston News (from The South Boston News)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in South Boston.
  • Published In Halifax
  • Published In Scottsburg   [Fluvanna County, VA]

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) 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 Pleasant Grove Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.6415, Longitude: -78.8753       In this case, the coordinates for the Pleasant Grove Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).