This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1487.1.1 Message Board Post: Donna: It seems I have given you a bum steer: There is no newspaper called the THURMAN NEWS. Newspapers published in rural counties needed subscribers from all over the county if they desired to achieve any measure of financial success. In 1897, Sidney had two newpapers, "The Fremont County Herald" and the "Fremont County Sun". Each paper employed 'correspondents' (1) from various towns in the county, or, (2) from the rural neighborhoods in the county, and , sometimes had a 'local editor' for the town in which the paper was published. Since the first paper published in Thurman was put out from about 1900 up to 1905, you are out of luck when looking for something with an 1897 time-line. Your only hope is to find a paper published elsewhere which had hired a 'correspondent' from Thurman. Cross you fingers and hope that the correspondent was a good one, because some are so frustrating inasmuch their "news" consists of saying that Mrs. Smith visisted Mrs. Jones, period. One hundred years later, you haven't the slightest idea of whom they are. May I suggest you visit a large library which has a bibliography of Iowa newpapers, showing all that have been published and which are still available, where you might be able to read those which are available,-- and-- thus start the slow process of newpaper research. I've been doing this for forty years, probably, and have piles and piles of notes on people to whom I'm not even related. (I get easily side-tracked when I am looking at old newspapers!).....GOOD LUCK. I would think the sexton of the cemetery would have the plot of where there are graves, and who is buried there. Could the mayor of the town tell you who the sextion is?