There’s a small town in the county where I grew up that had a newspaper from the 1850s through the latter part of the 20th century. It’s a good fifteen miles from the town where my grandmother grew up and even further from where my grandmother raised her family after her marriage. My grandmother never lived in the town herself although her mother did for approximately fifteen years. Grandma’s sister lived there for approximately twenty years as well.
There are numerous references to my grandmother and her family in the gossip columns of that newspaper. Some of those are in connection to her mother, some to her sister, and some because Grandma attended family events “within shoutin’ distance” of the town where the newspaper was published.
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