This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3AC.2ACE/1554.2 Message Board Post: Hello from Danville, There is a newspaper in Chatham, called the _Star-Tribune_, but to my knowledge it didn't begin operations until about 1938. With that in mind, the _Danville_Register_ is probably your best bet, but I've come to learn that newspapers did not treat obituaries the same way in those early years as they do now. If an obituary was published for someone at all, it was probably published as a filler and might be found anywhere in the newspaper -- and perhaps as much as 7-10 days after a death. I know this because I had to locate an obituary for my great grandfather, who died in 1957 [late May, I think, around Memorial Day]. He was a long-serving doctor [MD] in Danville and Pittsylvania County [30-50 years] and when I finally found his obituary, it was in a newspaper issue a week or more after the death -- and no more than 2-3 inches long. With all that said, you would have to find a microfilmed copy of the right month's Danville newspapers [at least part of the time, there was the morning Register and the afternoon/evening Danville Bee] and go through it until you find any obituary that may have been published. If you don't know more than the year, you would need to do further searching to pin that down before continuing with the microfilm research. Hope this helps. Richard