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Publications and Resources

Newspaper Sources

• Hometown newspapers

• Regional/local digitized newspaper –• Several universities have digitized their state’s newspapers

(example: U Illinois)

• Newspapers.com (subscription) – Ancestry link

• Elephind.com

• Library of Congress -https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/the-5-best-free-sites-for-online-newspaper-research-for-genealogy#.Wni82ainGUk

Newspaper Archives

• First project: searching for “missing” brother of my maternal grandmother

• He died of a “young age”, but the family simply wouldn’t discuss the circumstances

• What I found after searching the UI newspaper archived in the Quad Cities (Moline, Davenport, Rock Island, IL)

1904: 19 yrs1909-1913: 24-28 yrs

April 19, 2011

From the Sun Journal, 21 August 1931

"Funeral Today For Mrs. Dunn, Drowning Victim"

The dead body of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunn, wife of Leonard Dunn, of Bridgeton, was found in the Neuse

river yesterday morning by John Hansen, who saw from the shore that a body was floating on the Bridgeton

side of the river about a hundred yards below the bridge.

Coroner J. R. Latham, M.D. decided that an inquest was not necessary, as the death was due either to

deliberate or accidental drowning. The funeral will be held this afternoon at two o'clock by Rev. R. M. Price

fromthe home at Bridgeton, followed by interment in the Grantsboro cemetery.

A sufferer from pellegra for many years, Mrs. Dunn is thought perhaps to have drowned herself intentionally

or to have become exhausted and drowned accidentally when she went wading. She was found with all her

clothes on except her shoes and hose.

Mrs. Dunn started from her home about 10 o'clock and evasively answered questions as to where she was

going. It was unusual for her to go out, as during the last year she had spent much time in bed. However, it

was thought that she was going to visit another neighbor.

No further thought was given her absence until Mr. Hansen reported finding the body and rowing out for it. It

was then recalled that Mrs. Dunn had recently expressed a desire on several occasions to go wading or

bathing.

Forty-five years of age, she survived by her husband; one daughter, Mrs. Edgar Thompson, of Tarboro, and

three sons: Clifford Dunn of the coast guard cutter Pamlico, Hildred Dunn, of Vanceboro, and Julius Dunn,

of Bridgeton.

Francis Delamar Mallison

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FDM Deed to Grandchildren - 1882

We the commissioners appointed

to divide and allot to the heirs at

law of a certain piece of land in

Grantsboro in Deed from F.D.

Mallison to his grandchildren have

herby divided and allotted Said

land as follows…

Benjamin B. Mallison

Charlotte Mallison

George K. Mallison

Matilda J. Mallison

Noah G. Mallison

Henry Mallison

Francis Mallison to William

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William Mallison Will - 1810

Lastly I Nominate Constitute and appoint my

well beloved wife Sarah Mallison and my two

sons Christopher Mallison and Francis Mallison

Executrix and Executors to this my Last Will

and testament Revoking all other will or wills

heretofore by me made allowing this only to be

my Last in testimony hereof I have put my

hand and fist my Seal this 30th day of August

1810.

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William Mallison to John

“I leave to my son William Mallison

one Shilling Starling”

Wife (executrix): Eloner De La Mar

Daughter: Mary Eagleton

John Mallison Will

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Dameron Pugh Will – 24 Sep 1837

Historical Society Publications

• High Tides (Hyde County) – lists of wills and land transactions, family histories, bible records

• Cemetery locations

• Obituaries

Historical Society Publications

Cemeteries

Benjamin and Sally