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Local Newspapers for the Richmond Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Richmond 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 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> of the Richmond 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 Richmond Cemetery.

  • Published In Cumberland Gap   [Claiborne County]
  • Published In Sneedville   [Hancock County]
    • Cumberland Gap (from Hancock County News)
    • Powells Valley Visitor (from Hancock County Post)
    • Hancock County News (from Sneedville Times)
    • Hancock County Post (from The Hancock Courier)
      • The first year of publication was in The Hancock Courier, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Hancock County Post
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN97065557
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 38121215
    • Sneedville Times (from The Hancock News)
    • The Hancock Courier (from The Sneedville News)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Sneedville.
  • Published In Tazewell   [Claiborne County]
    • Cumberland Gap (from Claiborne County Democrat)
      • Years of publication:  Claiborne County Democrat to 189?
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Cumberland Gap
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN98069876
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 40225800
    • Powells Valley Visitor (from Cumberland Gap Progress)
    • Hancock County News (from The Claiborne Democrat)
      • The first year of publication was in The Claiborne Democrat, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Hancock County News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN00063976
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 44422192
    • Hancock County Post (from The Tazewell Times)
      • The first year of publication was in The Tazewell Times, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Hancock County Post
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN98069878
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 40225715
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Tazewell.
  • Published In Harlan   [Harlan County]
    • Cumberland Gap (from The Harlan American)
    • Powells Valley Visitor (from The Harlan Daily Enterprise)
    • Hancock County News (from The Harlan Enterprise)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Harlan.

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' 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 Richmond Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.6368, Longitude: -83.4257       In this case, the coordinates for the Richmond Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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