Julie, How much are the obitituary books. I would like to have a copy of both volumes. Gerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Julie Cromwell <janncromwell@highland.net> To: <TNMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 2:47 AM Subject: Re: [TNMORGAN] death record > Deb > Sorry... > The Wartburg Library in the genealogy room. They have the original > newspapers starting in 1916 and also have most of them on microfilm. Of > course most of the original copies are kinda fragile.. > I do have a couple of books I put together with obits from these papers. > Morgan County Newspaper Obituaries, Vol. I, 1916-1934; and Vol II, > 1935-1940. Obituaries way back then were not like today's obits. Most > of the time there was only a small notation in the community columns > telling about a death and precious little other information. Such as " > Mrs. "So & So" passed away yesterday". So, it was hunt and search the > newspaper, column by column, to even find the notice.Vol. I contains > several murders and other 'interesting' events and is interesting > reading besides the information from obituaries. I verified some of the > dates from the cemetery book and some of the deaths are not even > recorded in the cemetery book. Possibly because no stone or marker was > ever placed. > I have still have a few copies that would make nice Christmas gifts. > Email me for more details > Sorry folks, didn't mean to rattle on..... ;o) > Julie > > Dar224@aol.com wrote: > > >Julie - when you say the newspapers are at the library - which one? > >Thanks, > >Deb Arapa > > > > > >==== TNMORGAN Mailing List ==== > > WHAT'S NEW on the Morgan County pages > >http://www.tngenweb.org/morgan/WHATSNEW.html > > > >============================== > >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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== TNMORGAN Mailing List ==== > WHAT'S NEW on the Morgan County pages > http://www.tngenweb.org/morgan/WHATSNEW.html > > ============================== > 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 > >