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Local Newspapers for the Wells Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Wells 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 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> of the Wells 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 Wells Cemetery.

  • Published In Wise
    • Highland Cavalier (from Highland Cavalier)
    • The Liberal (from The Liberal)
    • The Vagabond Gazette (from The Vagabond Gazette)
    • The Wise Gazette (from The Wise Gazette)
    • The Wise News (from The Wise News)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Wise.
  • Published In Norton   [Norton City, VA]
    • Highland Cavalier (from Crawford's Weekly)
    • The Liberal (from Crawford's Weekly)
      • Years of publication:  Crawford's Weekly to 1924
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Liberal
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN98068222
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 40278391
    • The Vagabond Gazette (from Norton Free Press)
    • The Wise Gazette (from The Church Journal)
    • The Wise News (from The Clinch Valley Baptist)
      • Years of publication:  The Clinch Valley Baptist to 19??
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Wise News
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN99066708
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 41015613
    • Crawford's Weekly (from The Coalfield Progress)
    • Crawford's Weekly (from The Daily Progress)
    • Norton Free Press (from The Lone Eagle)
    • The Church Journal (from The Norton Reporter And Miners Enterprise)
      • Years of publication:  The Norton Reporter And Miners Enterprise to 1920
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Church Journal
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN96096562
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 34527622
    • The Clinch Valley Baptist (from The Norton Reporter)
    • The Coalfield Progress (from The Salmagundi)
    • The Daily Progress (from The Virginia Digest)
    • The Lone Eagle (from Wise County News)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Norton.
  • Published In Coeburn
  • Published In Appalachia
  • Published In Big Stone Gap
    • Highland Cavalier (from Big Stone Gap Herald)
      • The first year of publication was in Big Stone Gap Herald, with an unknown end date
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Highland Cavalier
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN87060149
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 15305587
    • The Liberal (from The Big Stone Gap Post)
    • The Vagabond Gazette (from The Big Stone Post)
    • The Wise Gazette (from The Mountain Empire News)
    • The Wise News (from The Post)
    • Crawford's Weekly (from The Wise Owl)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Big Stone Gap.
  • Published In Jenkins   [Letcher County]

The official website for Wise County: www.wisecounty.org/

The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/

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 drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Wells Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9620, Longitude: -82.6090       In this case, the coordinates for the Wells Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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