My friends - I had intended to head over to Hickman County for today's posting, but I have a few more snippets from Graves County newspapers in the 1875-1880 time frame, so I have decided to go ahead with those today. We'll get back over to Hickman County before the week is out. These snippets can range from anything as simple as a one line statement that someone is visiting someone else, to a paragraph detailing the death of a citizen. Marriages are often mentioned, as are births. You never know what you might get from one of these - it may be of no value at all, or it could be invaluable. Given the fact that we have such a lack of records in Graves County, due to the 1887 courthouse fire, we grasp at whatever we can find for graves County. Subscribers to this List who see a name in the list below which may be connected with their family can obtain the full text of the snippet by letting me know you need it, and I will ship it off to you. As always, your help in not resending this entire message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. Finally, several of you have noted that I made a typo in the last Skills Puzzler original narrative, when I stated that the pension year of death given for Josephus Snurd was, in fact, the actual year that he died. That original narrative should have read "1897" on the pension application. Mea culpa. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Graves County - Early Newspaper Snippets - Part 4 J[oseph] H. & Jennie Langridge Richard & Sarah Gregory Crit Elsey Annie Dozier Lewis Helfer Floyd Futrell Mrs. John Dodson Samuel Sanderson Samuel Sneed Mrs. Sarah Horn Mrs.M.E.Reynolds Israel Kimmel John Irvin William Gamble Miss S.H.Watson George Meadows L.F.Norris Belle Sullivan Richard L. Mayes James O'Daniel Eli Trevathan Andrew Russell(of Clinton Co.) William Rives Maggie Leach John A. Jack Bettie Payner "Grandma" Hudspeth Wesley Morris Albert Jenkins Mrs. Augusta Drennan ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++