Dear Tom - By e-mail, contact Debbie Sprague at the North Adams Historical Society, a very helpful young lady who will do a lookuip for you if she has the resources. I checked my files of obits from that area but did not find him. The e-mail address is: <dsprague146@yahoo.com> Better wishes and good hunting Charlie Thomas Oneill wrote: > Does anyone know how to get copies of old obituaries from newspapers published in Adams/North Adams in 1881? I expect the libraries have them, but have not found anyone who will do a lookup. Suggestions? Looking for the obit for Thomas J. Randall, who died in Adams December 14, 1881. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!