This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burnett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACI/1613.1 Message Board Post: To my knowledge, there are very few newspapers for Denton County prior to around 1900. There were a couple of fires in the area of the courthouse square, one in 1875 and one a bit later. I can't remember which, but one of them also destroyed the newspaper office, and with it the newspaper's morgue of old editions. You might check out this website: http://www.geocities.com/moonspinner.geo/JBurTomb.html It has Jeremiah and Nancys tombstone (and gives her maiden name as Turner). The person maintaining the site may have more information on the family.