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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: Re: Newspapers
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 07:00:51 -0500


At 12:40 AM 4/27/99 EDT, you wrote:
>Randi, does the Monroe County Library have newspapers from the 1860s? My
>great
>great grandfather, John B. Floyd, died in August 1865 at age 25. I suspect
>that he
>was a Civil War casualty.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Sue in MN

Until the 1880s, issues of the Bloomington paper are quite sporadic. And
as for the 1830s, what I have found to date has had little to do with the
people or events in the community excepting legal notices.

Randi Richardson

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