Do you mean to say Thomas Jefferson Hinchey b. btw 1831-1849-d.1926 The thing is if your man did not die in Wilkes CO he might not have record of death in this CO, most often they are written in the CO found dead? Some News papers are on microfilm in Librarys.. Some years and months are lost and some years in Wilkes have several area news papers. Since you don't have a month he died it would be very time consuming and nothing may be found. There has been no indexing that early. You can write and your call most court houses for death records. Ask for clerk of registers office. Ask the price? You can also do interlibrary loans on microfilm of news papers. Ask at the reference desk of your public library how to do this . But make sure they first have an easy to use microfilm machine with a printer. Many old news papers on film can be found also Raleigh NC at state archives. Google the state archives they should have a web page some place with the news papers that are available . I have sent to other states for news papers but not Raleigh yet. Thomas disappeared while taking a trip in January, 1926 to Alert, near Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina Jeanie --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited Try it today.