Sherry, In a few days I will send Karen a file to post on the archives containing a detailed description of which Union Parish newspapers exist today (or, at least those we know about). In general, Union Parish newspapers exist today for the year Feb 1885 - Feb 1886, and then Mar 1894 - 2001, with a few scattered issues missing (there are a few papers in addition to these for various years). I have been abstracting these papers randomly for the past 20 years, but recently have been preparing some of them for Karen to post. The Gazette issues for 1898 all exist, so there should be something on John Edman Thomas. Do you have a date? Tim Hudson -----Original Message----- From: Gritzbaugh@aol.com [mailto:Gritzbaugh@aol.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:22 PM To: LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Newspaper abstracts How far back do the newspaper articles go? I am also appreciative of Tim Hudson's work. I am looking for a death obit in 1898 for John Edman Thomas who was killed by Dunc Austin. Do you have anything on this? Thanks, Sherry