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Local Newspapers for the Matoaka Cemetery ...

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

Our newspaper information for the Matoaka 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 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> of the Matoaka 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 Matoaka Cemetery.

  • Published In Matoaka
  • Published In Princeton
    • The Mercer Recorder (from Princeton Daily Times)
    • Princeton Daily Times (from Princeton Gazette)
    • Princeton Gazette (from Princeton Observer)
    • Princeton Observer (from Princeton Progress)
    • Princeton Progress (from The Evening Press)
    • The Evening Press (from The Mercer Progress)
    • The Mercer Progress (from The Mercer Republican)
    • The Mercer Republican (from The Princeton Journal)
    • The Princeton Journal (from The Princeton Journal)
    • The Princeton Journal (from The Princeton News)
    • The Princeton News (from The Princeton Press)
    • The Princeton Press (from The Princeton Times)
    • The Princeton Times (from The Princeton Times)
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  • Published In Bluefield
    • The Mercer Recorder (from Bluefield Daily Telegraph)
    • Princeton Daily Times (from Bluefield Evening Leader)
    • Princeton Gazette (from Bluefield Sunset News The Times-Leader)
      • Years of publication:  Bluefield Sunset News The Times-Leader to 1957
      • Locate a copy thru the Library of Congress:
      • Catalog Card for the Princeton Gazette
      • Holdings for:   LCCN SN86092068
      • Locate a copy thru WorldCat:   OCLC 13041646
    • Princeton Observer (from Mountain Mirror)
    • Princeton Progress (from Sunset News-Observer)
    • The Evening Press (from The Sunday Telegraph)
    • The Mercer Progress (from Twin City Advance And Mercer Recorder)
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  • Published In Keystone   [McDowell County, WV]

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 Matoaka Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4201, Longitude: -81.2393       In this case, the coordinates for the Matoaka Cemetery have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).