You can probably find these at the Belleville Library in downtown Belleville. You can write or call the Belleville Library directly, and they can look it up for you. The library charges $10 an hour for searching, and 50 cents per page for copying. It shouldn't take long at all to search because, God bless 'em, the Library has a very large card file containing names, dates, newspaper, and page number of obits, marriages, births, death notices, and other events, filed alphabetically by last name. Their address and phone number are: Belleville Public Library 121 East Washington St. Belleville, IL 62220 Phone: (618) 234-0441 At 06:01 PM 11/15/2004 -0800, Joyce Wafford wrote: >Can anyone tell me if it would be possible to get two obits, that are >quite old, and where I may start as to try to find them? > >I would like obits for a husband and wife. Both died in E. St. Louis >Township, St. Clair County, Illinois. > >NASH, ISAAC A. >Death Date: 1938, April 7 > >NASH, EMMA C. >Death Date: 1923, October 9 > >I am trying to find out if this couple may be related to my NASH family >from St. Francois County, Missouri. > >Thanks to All for any help that you can give me. > >Joyce >Brookings, OR Carrie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...Then they filled, with clear, shallow water, the whole breadth of this broad canal, and set little whirlpools turning in the depths, and for the first time mirrored the green banks and distant calls of birds -- while in the sky the starry nights of another, sweeter country blossomed above them and would never close. Tombs of the Hetaerae, by Rainier Maria Rilke Translation by Stephen Mitchell