Don, If the following headstone is the one you were asking about, then it can be found in the Opal Cemetery.  All the headstone photo names include the cemetery where that headstone can be found.  Williams, J.N. July 25, 1832 June 7, 1885 (Older stone - Initials are different) opal-022.jpgYou should consider contacting the Wise County Museum to find newspaper information about a death in 1885.  Typically in that period only brief death notices were given, not detailed obituaries like we have today.  However, you won't know until you take a look. The Wise County Museum will charge a small fee to find an article (if it exists) and and send it to you. http://www.wisehistory.com/ David Pitts Houston TX --- On Mon, 2/9/09, mrpostman@suddenlink.net <mrpostman@suddenlink.net> wrote: From: mrpostman@suddenlink.net <mrpostman@suddenlink.net> Subject: [TXWISE] Genealogy To: "txwise-l@rootsweb.com" <txwise-l@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 9:13 PM I saw a picture of a headstone on your web site, and I think it is what I have been looking for for several years. It is of J N Williams. It is in one of the alphabetically listed pages of headstone pictures. . Would you mind looking at it for a minute? The site did not mention the name of the cemetery. I believe it is for Jasper Newton Williams. The time and place are right, and the dates on the headstone coincide with information I have. Are there any records at the courthouse, or an obituary as far back as 1885? The informant might be the same person who made the headstone. They seemed to know dates. Maybe old Jasper got hung, and they asked him for the particulars. Thanks, Don Williams 2003 West Kentucky Midland, TX 79701 mrpostman@suddenlink.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXWISE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message