Hi Sara, Unfortunately there are no old papers for Franklin County for that time period, unless someone, somewhere might have a stray copy. The only papers we have on microfilm begin about the 1940s. The Library of Virginia has a newspaper project and you might contact them to see if they have one for that time. If he was murdered there should be something in the court records about that. Beverly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sara Gredler" <sarakg@yepmail.net> To: <VAFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:19 PM Subject: [VAFRANKL] 1878 Newspaper in Franklin? >I am looking for a newspaper article and/or other records regarding > my great-great-great grandfather, Haden H. WILLIAMS. He was listed > in the Franklin County Death records with a death date of 18 October > 1878. The cause of death was listed as "murdered". > > He was born about 1845 in Franklin county, the son of James WILLIAMS > and Clarissa RICHARDS. He married 20 September 1865 in Franklin > county, Lucy Ellen HOLT, daughter of James Edmond HOLT and Mary > "Polly" HUFF. > > Any help would be appreciated! > > Thanks, > Sara Gredler > > > Sara Gredler sarakg@yepmail.net > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sarakath/ > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The SECOND Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll > Call. Please always put the surname you seek in the subject and tell us > something about your Brick Wall person. > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Search this list's archived messages! > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message