God bless you. Thank you so much more than I can put into words. Most have said because they could not find her obit on the library website it did not appear. I knew it had, another family member had it and lost it. There are several that do not appear on the library list, perhaps just overlooked. Thank you. Julia > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:40:11 -0500 > Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Obit help, newspaper archives subscription, please > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Well, good grief, I decided to search Worldvitalrecords just for Selby > 1936 and found it! > > Hagerstown Morning Herald, 22 Dec 1936 p. 16: > > Mrs. Margaret E. Selby died on Monday evening at 7 o'clock at her > home, 410 West Franklin street, aged 71 years. She is survived by two > sons, Charles, Wisconsin, and Lewis Selby, near New Alexander, Pa.; > one daughter, Mrs. Anna Mas, Baltimore. > The body was removed to the Kraiss Mortuary Chapel from where funeral > services will be held on Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. > G.I. Rider; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery. > > I'd suggest you write Rose Hill and see if there is any additional > information about her in their records. Unfortunately, not a very > informative obit, but ... for what it's worth. > > Sam > > P.S. This just goes to show that one should never rely solely on > printed, secondary sources, but always at some point search original > records. > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Julia and Daniel Guthrie > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please, can someone who may > > have a subscription to the newspaper archives do a look up of an obit for me? > > > > I am seeking an obit for > > Margaret E. SELBY, she died 21 Dec 1936, > > in Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD. > > > > Her obit likely appeared in a > > Hagerstown newspaper. > > > > Please can you help me? I am > > very grateful and appreciative for your time and help. > > > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > Julia > > > > > > > > > > ********* > > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN > > ********* > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message