Abstracts of Early East Texas Newspaper, 1839--1856

By: Linda Cheves Nicklas, Pub. 1994, Reprinted 2017, 166 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-359-7. This new title of newspaper abstracts covers papers in Clarksville, Marshall, Nacogdoches, and San Augustine. Texas did not require the filing of death certificates until 1903 and hence for someone trying to locate the death of a family member for early to mid-19th century deaths. The author has attempted to locate all death notices found in these papers, as well as marriage notices which gene