The North County News didn't start publishing until 1959. The previous newspaper was the Red Bud Pilgrim. It was never well archived, so I don't know which libraries, if any, might have microfilm of it. Matt Quinn> From: bilpeg@verizon.net> To: ilrandol@rootsweb.com> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 20:53:20 -0600> Subject: Re: [ILRANDOL] Newspaper Randolph County that covered Red Bud 1951> > You might contact the funeral homes directly, they sometimes have copies of the obituary. Here are the two I could find: Koch-Liefer Funeral Home, 220 Locust St., Red Bud, IL 62278 Phone: 618-282-2325 and Welge-Pechacek Funeral Home, 1340 W. Market St., Red Bud, IL 62278 Phone: 618-282-2244.> > You might possibly try Waterloo, IL also as it's not that far from Red Bud. More funeral homes can be found at www.usafuneralhomesonline.com/funeralhomesbystate/> > Here's the website for the North County News from Red Bud; not a daily newspaper, I don't know if it was in existence in 1951, but you can e-mail them from this website and they might be able to help you. http://www.blossomcity.com/ncn/> > I hope some of this might help. > > Peg Luthy> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jean Taylor > To: ILRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 8:13 PM> Subject: [ILRANDOL] Newspaper Randolph County that covered Red Bud 1951> > > What newspaper most likely would have published an obituary for a resident > of Red Bud who died April 30, 1951?> > I searched the online index of newspaper holdings of the Abraham Lincoln > Presidential Library in Springfield. They don't have the Red Bud Pilgrim for > that time period. And the Chester Herald-Tribune didn't carry the obit.> > Would the Sparta News-Plaindealer be the next logical choice? I see that The > Republican (Coulterville) was being published then, but Sparta seems to be > closer to Red Bud.> > The obit that I am looking for is for Louis G. Kaiser, dod April 30, 1951.> > Jean Taylor > > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message> > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Live Search: Better results, fast http://get.live.com/search/overview