NP, This might be difficult for you to do personally from Seattle, but there are some Moore County newspapers on microfilm, with the 1917 year, on file at the NC State Library. http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/ncnp/intro.htm If you send a request to the Moore, Chatham and Anson mail lists, I'm pretty sure you can find someone who goes to the Archives/State Library for research, from these local areas. The NC State Library/Archives is located in Raleigh. Jim Gilmer -------Original Message------- From: npmaling@zipcon.net Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 08:03:27 PM To: NCMOORE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NCMOORE] STEVENS family in Southern Pines Seeking obituary for Mary Abby (MALING) STEVENS, daughter of Moses Cushing MALING and Olive Porter CHADBOURNE. She was born 4 May 1849 in Kennebunk, York County, Maine and died 12 January 1917 in Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina. One son from marriage to Augustus Ervin STEVENS named Ervin (other details unknown). If his obit is there, too, All the better. Thanks much. N.P. Maling Seattle, King, Washington www.geocities.com/npmaling ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 .