Well I thot others could benefit and thot I was sending to list but went to Pat only so she gets two.<g> gf ---------- Obituaries available on microfilm thru interlibrary loan or requesting a search from the IL State Historical Library IL Historical Library newspaper research policy - residents and non-residents http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/generes.htm#NEWSPAPER SEARCH POLICY Location, hours, address and phone number http://www.state.il.us/hpa/lib/generes.htm#LOCATION AND HOURS Newspapers available for Macoupin are listed at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/m_paper.htm and listed below. Benld: "Enterprise" - Mar 22, 1940; Dec 19, 1941 to current issues (1988) Brighton: "News" - Incomplete file Aug 15, 1912 - Feb 14, 1946 Bunker Hill: (also at Bunker Hill Public Library) "Union Gazette" -Incomplete file Jan 19, 1866-Jul 13, 1871 (last issue) "Gazette" - Inc. file Jul 20,1871-1904; Jan 4-Feb 8, 1906; Dec 27, 1907; Inc. 1908-Mar 1, 1910, last issue. "Gazette News" - lst issue Mar 8, 1910-1924; May 14, 1928 to current (in 1988) "Macoupin County Advance" - Sep 23, 1892 "News" (semi-weekly) Sep 4, 1897; inc. Jan-Jun 1899 (weekly) Jun 9, 1899-Mar 1, 1907, last issue merged with "Gazette News" "Red and White" - monthly Oct 1927- May 1928 "Union Gazette" - See Gazette News Carlinville: (also at Carlinville Public Library) "Blackburn Gazette" - monthly May 1872 "Conservative" (merged with Macoupin Times) - Mar 24-Jun 2, 1868 "Free Democrat" - Inc. file lst issue Sep 1856-Mar 21, 1867 "Democrat" - Inc. file Mar 28, 1867-Aug 12, 1886; Aug 18, 1887-Aug 7, 1890; Jul 23 (Aug 13, 1891-Mar 1975 to present.) "Enquirer" - daily ed. of Macoupin County Enquirer: Aug 24, 1896-Jul 3, 1918, last issue "Macoupin County Argus" - Jan 16, 1902-Jan 14, Feb 11, 1904; Mar 22, Apr 16, 1906 "Macoupin Statesmen" - Sep 30, Nov 4, 1852; Aug 4, 20-Sep 3, 1853; (Note from Mary McKenzie - "The Macoupin County Statesman is the oldest Macoupin County newpaper on microfilm and very few issues of it are available on microfilm. I don't know if Carlinville Public Library has the Macoupin County Statesman on film. I got it through inter-library loan from the State Historical Library in Springfield. In the publication Illinois Libraries - Newspapers in the Illinois State Historical Library it is mentioned. From this book it appears the name of the paper changed numerous times after that. Macoupin Statesman, Macoupin Spectator, Spectator, Macoupin Statesman, Macoupin Times, Spectator, Macoupin Co. Enquirer. These newspapers were on the film "Miscellaneous Newspapers of Carlinville and Macoupin County. Issues of the oldest Macoupin County Statesman available on microfilm at the State Historical Library are: Sep 30, 1852 Nov 4, 1852 (includes delinquent Tax list) There is an issue with no front page that follows the Nov. 4 issue. It is dated Nov. 8, 1852. (This isn't listed in the newspaper index book from the Historical library.) It has a couple of the obituaries. Aug 4, 1853 (includes delinquent Tax List) Aug 20, 1853 (includes delinquent Tax List) thru Sep 3, 1853 Obituaries you will find in the oldest Macoupin County Statesman newpapers are: Elisabeth Chestnut, Samuel Tennis, Sarah Ann Waters, Wesley Albartus, infant daughter of Wm. A. and Ann Maria (?) of Chesterfield (Surname cut off.); Thomas Henry, Emily P. Burke, Mary Jane Keller, Mary Ann Snow, Samuel B. Tennis.") "Macoupin Spectator" - May , 1855, Jun 28, 1856; Jun 26, 1858; "Spectator" - Jan 14, 1859-Jan 4, Oct 11, 1861; Jan 24, Feb 14, 1862; May 15, 1863; May 12, 1864; May 11, 1856, May 16, 1867, May 13, 1868. "Macoupin Times" - Jun 1868-May 1870 "Macoupin Enquirer" - Inc. file Nov 1871-Dec 11, 1878; (sw) Jan 11-Dec 1879 "Macoupin County Enquirer" - (w)May 7, 1880; Apr 22, 1881; Apr 21, May 19, 1882; Apr 27, 1883; Apr 23, 1884; Apr 22 1885; Apr 21 1886; Inc. file Aug 18 1886 to present. Enquirer, Macoupin Statesmen through the Macoupin County Enquirer were all owned by the same newspaper, just changed names. "Macoupin County Herald" - Inc. file Mar-Dec 1879 "Republican" - (w) Aug 14, 1895; (d) Sep 21, 1895 At 08:22 PM 4/23/99 -0500, you wrote: >Does anyone know if the Macoupin County Enquirer was printed in 1898? >If so would there be anyone who would have access to obituaries? I am >looking for one for my g-grandmother Amanda Elizabeth WADE who died >December 9, 1898. She is buried in Loomis cemetery in Chesterfield. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks, >Pat ------------------ Gloria Frazier Macoupin County ILGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacoup/macoupin.htm