>RE: newspapers available in Huntingdon County to find two obituaries one for >1853 and one for 1861. >Both deaths were in West Twp. I have a close date to the month of the death. > >Both the HUNTINGDON GLOBE and HUNTINGDON JOURNAL are at Juniata College in >microfilm and in bound volumes. Also the Hunt. Co. Historical Soc'y library >has index cards to many of the death notices that will give the issue of the >newspaper (date/year) if you have the name of the deceased. You will usually >find something like JOHN DOE, at his home in Barree Township, in his 76th >year. No survivors or parents appear, unless it's a woman where you usually >get the husband's name, living or deceased, but not always. Sometimes a >religious verse is added. > >Steve Kemp > > > >