Of note are the W.L. Murphy ads in one of these. Also, James Murphy was publisher of one of these in the late 1850s timeframe, I believe. Sorry, some of these are poor, but that was the best I could do. They all come with a money-back guarantee (grin & wink) ; ) The Columbia Beacon (TN), 18 Feb 1848 The Mail (Columbia), 26 Jun 1873 The Columbia Mirror (TN), 5 Jun 1856 The Democratic Herald (Columbia), 7 Jul 1855 The Democratic Herald (Columbia), 15 Sep 1855 The Maury County Herald, 30 Sep 1865 Also, if anyone knows of newspapers of interest (mainly to me) that are on microfilm, please let me know. I'm bouncing back & forth between NC & TN (webwise), kind of like my ancestors did. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~freshnup/markmurph/ -- "I'm a student of life, and I hope I don't graduate soon." Mark A. Murphy