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/IEC.2ACE/1186.1 Message Board Post: The Kingwood Chronicle Jan 26, 1861 - Aug 17, 1861 is on microfilm at the WV Archives and WVU Library. This newspaper was discontinued due to rumors that the press would be destroyed and the Row brothers hanged. There is a biographical sketch on George Row in the Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania, by John M. Gresham & Co., 1891, pages 141-143 (Indiana Co) which also mentions his brother Amos and contains information regarding the Kingwood Chronicle. Roy Lockhart

Do you know if either of the Preston County papers printed obituaries back then? My GGGrandfather, George Skidmore, died at Fellowsville in 1908 due to falling from a horse. Harry > 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/IEC.2ACE/1186.1 > > Message Board Post: > > The Kingwood Chronicle Jan 26, 1861 - Aug 17, 1861 is on microfilm at the > WV Archives and WVU Library. This newspaper was discontinued due to > rumors that the press would be destroyed and the Row brothers hanged. > > There is a biographical sketch on George Row in the Biographical and > Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania, by > John M. Gresham & Co., 1891, pages 141-143 (Indiana Co) which also > mentions his brother Amos and contains information regarding the Kingwood > Chronicle. > > Roy Lockhart > > > > ==== WVPRESTO Mailing List ==== > Check out other genealogy resources on the net at John Fuller's most > helpful site > http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > Harry