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Local Newspapers for the Blackwood Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Blackwood 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 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> of the Blackwood 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 Blackwood Cemetery.

  • Published In Newburg
  • Published In Gladesville
  • Published In Kingwood
  • Published In Grafton   [Taylor County, WV]
    • Newburg Herald (from Central West Virginia Guardian)
      • Years of publication:  Central West Virginia Guardian to 1975
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Newburg Herald
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86092322
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13241175
    • The Gladesville Gleaner (from Grafton Daily Republican)
    • Preston County Herald (from Grafton Daily Sentinel)
    • Preston County Journal (from Grafton Eagle-Sentinel)
    • The New Era (from Grafton Leader)
      • Years of publication:  Grafton Leader to 1921
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The New Era
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86092331
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13241223
    • The Preston Leader (from Grafton Press---and The Belington Progressive)
      • Years of publication:  Grafton Press---and The Belington Progressive to 1930
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for The Preston Leader
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86092332
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13260827
    • Central West Virginia Guardian (from Grafton Press)
    • Grafton Daily Republican (from Grafton Sentinel)
    • Grafton Daily Sentinel (from Grafton Sentinel)
    • Grafton Eagle-Sentinel (from Standard Enterprise)
    • Grafton Leader (from The Grafton Daily News)
      • Years of publication:  The Grafton Daily News to 1904
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Grafton Leader
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86092324
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13241190
    • Grafton Press---and The Belington Progressive (from The Grafton Eagle)
    • Grafton Press (from The Grafton News)
    • Grafton Sentinel (from The Grafton Standard)
    • Grafton Sentinel (from The Grafton Weekly Times)
    • Standard Enterprise (from The Mountain Statesman)
    • The Grafton Daily News (from The West Virginia Chronicle)
    • Jump to our expanded list of Newspapers Published in Grafton.
  • Published In Fetterman   [Taylor County, WV]

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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 Blackwood Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3640, Longitude: -79.8131       In this case, the coordinates for the Blackwood Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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