Hello,
My gggrandfather died in Owen Co. in 1914. I found his obituary at the
Wabash Valley Obituary Index. The newspaper it has listed is the Tribune
(Terre Haute). His obituary has Coal City at the beginning of the obituary.
The obituary states that he"...was found dead in a chair at his home, one
and one-half miles northeast of here..." So, I am guessing that the Tribune
used the same obituary that the Coal City newspaper did? Does this make
sense since the Tribune office or where ever the obituary would be written
in Vigo, is not 11/2 miles anywhere close to Owen Co.? If so, would anybody
know of a newspaper in Owen Co. that would have written a different
obituary on my gggrandfather in 1914?
Thank you for any help,
Carla
charris(a)texas.net
Carla
You are referring to what I call a byline(not the name for it). Anyway,the
practice you refer to is quite common.
I spend alot of time in the Gen Library going through obits in old
newspapers and I pay special attention to words like "from here", or "of
this city".
From what you have said I would take it to mean that he died one and one
half miles northeast of Coal City.
Whenever I read from the Martinsville Reporter and it does the same thing I
always gauge from that town.
So basically in reading old obits, if you find those phrases, look to the
top and see where the obit was printed at originally.
Debbie