Hello - Someone mentioned a newspaper called the Boone Democrat or something like that - it preceded the Coal Valley News. Are there archives for this paper? My gg grandmother, Rebecca Belcher Stewart, died in an automobile accident in Racine in 1900. I would think this might have been newsworthy. Both my Stewart and Belcher lines are dead ends at present. I know nothing about Rebecca other than her last name of Belcher and the fact she and husband Elias Stewart and children came from Mercer Co. to Boone in mid-1860s. Elias' parents are Robert and Mary Stewart of Mercer/Giles Va and NO relation to Ralph Stewart. Any info on the Democrat would be appreciated. Richard Stewart P.S. Happy Belated Birthday to Yvonne Booz.