Some weekly newspapers would publish a “days beyond recall” or a similarly titled column containing items from issues that had been published decades before. Just because your relative died in 1855 does not mean he might not be mentioned 40 years later. It can happen. My relative died accidentally in 1855 and several decades later in a retrospective column his death was mentioned.
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