I Finally Found My 2nd Grand Uncle Herbert W. "Dutch" Porter's Obituary

Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 03 February 2020), memorial page for Herbert W Porter (1899–1971), Find A Grave Memorial no. 173492189, citing Mount Harmony Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Mableton, Cobb County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Bulldog Fan (contributor 48178484).

I have been struggling for years to find the death record or obituary for my 2nd grand uncle, Herbert W. "Dutch" Porter, my great grandmother Letta Estella Porter's brother.  Because he spent many decades in Chicago I kept looking there for his death record, but none of the Herbert Porters who died there matched his information.  I also had reason to believe he had lived until at least 1974.

Now, thanks to the constant updating of Ancestry's databases, I effortlessly stumbled on his obituary yesterday, but it was in 1971 in Cobb County, Georgia!  I would never have thought to look for him there.

Porter -- Funeral services for Mr. Herbert W. Porter, age 72, 4213 Springdale Circle, Powder Springs will be conducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. from the McEachern Methodist Church with remains placed in state at 2 p.m. Rev. William G. Edwards, officiating. Interment, Mt. Harmony Memorial Gardens. Survivors include wife, Mrs. Helen Porter; sisters, Mrs. Estella Turnball, Dallas; Mrs. Annie Sue Graham, Venice, Calif.; brothers, Mr. Calvin Porter, Dallas; Mr. Orville Porter, Los Angeles, Calif.  Turk's Memory Chapel, Powder Springs, 943-3547.

"Porter," obituary, The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, GA), Wednesday, 29 Dec 1971, page 25, col 6; digital image, Newspapers.com (http://newspapers.com), accessed 2 Feb 2020.

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I Finally Found Matilda Biddle Porter's Obituary!

A couple years ago I posted some plans to research my 3rd great grandmother Matilda Biddle's obituary.  Thankfully Newspapers.com beat me to the punch and I found two variations of her obituary last week.  I may eventually see if I can find Newport, Oregon newspapers mentioning her death, but for now at least I have something!

Unfortunately, most of the information given in the obituary is about her father and her ex-husband, not her.

Corvallis Gazette-Times (accessed from Newspaper.com)
(Corvallis, Oregon)
27 Aug 1927, Sat  • Page 6

Mrs. Porter Dead
Member of Pioneer Benton Family Dies at Home at Newport
Mrs. Matilda Biddle Porter, wife of Orville T. Porter, one of Benton county's early residents, died late yesterday afternoon at the family home at Newport.  The body was brought to Corvallis and prepared for burial and the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the grave in the I. O. O. F. cemetery.  Rev. E. J. Harper of the Madison street Methodist church will officiate. 

Mrs. Porter was born February 22, 1846, in Springfield, Ill., but apparently came west during her childhood.  She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Biddle, pioneers of Benton county.  From meagre information that could be obtained, it is believed Mrs. Porter's father was Dr. R. B. Biddle, a prominent dentist in Corvallis in the early '70s, who after retiring to Pleasant Valley, 1 1/2 miles south of Philomath, established a short course in dentistry which was probably the first dental college in Oregon.  George Biddle, a brother, is said to have become a leading dentist in Eugene. 

Mrs. Porter was aged 81 years.  She is survived by a daughter who resides in Albany and a son in Seattle.  No definite information regarding the family could be obtained.

Corvallis Gazette-Times (accessed from Newspapers.com)
(Corvallis, Oregon)
30 Aug 1927, Tue  • Page 3

Was of Pioneer Family - The remains of the late Mrs. Matilda Biddle Porter, widow of Orville Porter, were interred Sunday in the I. O. O. F. cemeteryq [sic] where a brief service was conducted by Rev. E. J. Harper.  Mrs. Porter died Friday at the family home at Newport where she had resided in late years.  She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin R. Biddle who crossed the plains to Oregon in 1850, and rode in a wagon with W. B. Carter, and early editor of the Gazette, as driver.  The Porters lived in Corvallis a number of years and Mr. Porter was a teacher here.  He organized bands, was editor of a Republican paper in Albany for a time and later was a member of the Indian commission in Alaska.  He died 15 years ago.  Dr. Biddle, father of Mrs. Porter, was a prominent dentist of the 70's.  There is a brother, Dr. E. W. Biddle of Hillsborough, Cal. A daughter residing in Albany and a son in Seattle survive.

Related posts for Matilda:

Monday Is for Mothers: Matilda Biddle (1846 - 1927)
Hat Tip to Those Relatives Who Wrote Their Stories Down, Part 2
Monday Is for Mothers: Maria Evans (1814 - 1899) Part 1
Working on Wednesday: Orville Tracy Porter (1838 - 1916) North to Alaska
52 Ancestors in 54 Weeks: Week 5: Tracy Darrow Porter
Orville Tracy Porter: Divorce and Marriage
Monday Is for Mothers: Sarah Emma Biddle Spencer (1842 - 1868)

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Family Friday: Some Distant Cousins (Through the Porter Line)

John Graves Shedd (1850-1926) married Mary Roenna Porter (1853-1942), a paternal third cousin, three times removed,* in New Hampshire in 1878. The couple had two daughters, Laura Abbie Shedd Schweppe (1879-1937) and Helen May Shedd Reed (1884-1978). This newspaper photo of their children was taken a year after their grandfather's death.

[27 Mar 1927, 151 - Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com]

John Shedd's obituary explains why he's referred to here as "the late merchant prince of Chicago."

[22 Oct 1926, Page 1 - Battle Creek Enquirer at Newspapers.com]

He was a noted philanthropist, donating $2 million to the creation of Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. He also supported the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Shedd-Porter Memorial Library in New Hampshire.



*Here's how we're related:

[Ancestry.com]

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Monday Is for Mothers: Sarah Talcott (1735 - 1809)

Sarah was only ten when her father John Talcott died in 1745. She and Obediah Willcox married in Hebron, Hartford County (now Tolland County), Connecticut* in February of 1749/50 when she was only thirteen.

[Title: Mack Genealogy : The Descendants of John Mack of Lyme, Connecticut.

Ancestry.com. North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:

Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.]

The couple had 13 children, the last six of them, including my ancestor Lydia Wilcox (Porter), were born after the family removed to Surry in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Sarah and Obediah are my fifth great grandparents.

[Ancestry.com]

Sarah died a year before her husband and they are buried next to each other in the Surry Village Cemetery.

[Photo added to findagrave.com memorial of Sarah Willcox #63426137 by Cheshire #47921031]

*This link from the Hebron Historical Society shows a map of Hebron in 1744 with the homesites of early residents marked, including those of Talcot[t] and Wilcox.


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Monday Is for Mothers: Violet Cora (Porter) Cook, Her Son Calvin & Dallas Baby Camp - 1927

Violet is one of my paternal grandmother's sisters which makes her my great aunt. As far as I can tell she married a man named Roy or Ross Cook sometime between 1925, when she was listed in the Dallas City Directory and 1927 when Calvin was born in Wichita Falls, Texas.

As you can see in Calvin's birth certificate, his father's given name is listed as Roy (or possibly Ray).

[Ancestry.com. Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Birth Certificates, 1903–1932. iArchives, Orem, Utah.]

Although Roy (or Ray) Cook isn't an uncommon name and there are several candidates for Calvin's father, I'm not prepared to claim that any of them are the right man.

Baby Calvin only lived for one month and 1 day before his death in Dallas. According to the death certificate he was born prematurely.

[Ancestry.com. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Death Certificates, 1903–1982. Austin, Texas, USA.]

What caught my eye was the place of death, Dallas Baby Camp. So I decided to do a bit of research which led me to a 1947 newspaper clipping about its history.

[3 Jan 1947, Page 3 - The Courier-Gazette at Newspapers.com]

I also located this article published five years ago by the Dallas Morning News which gives a more comprehensive overview of the Baby Camp.

[Dallas News powered by the Dallas Morning News]

The next public record for Violet is the 1930 U.S. Census where she's a widow living in her mother's house (along with several of her sisters, including my grandmother and my father).

In the next census ten years later, Violet, now single, was still living with her mother and extended family. She died in 1944 and here's her death certificate which states that she died of encephalitis of 15 years duration which would put the onset of the disease back to 1929. Perhaps that's why in both the 1930 and 1940 federal enumerations no occupation is listed for Violet.

[Ancestry.com. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Death Certificates, 1903–1982. Austin, Texas, USA.]

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Orville Tracy Porter: Divorce and Marriage

When I posted about O.T. Porter in 2015, we didn't know when this paternal great great grandfather's marriage to Matilda Biddle Porter ended but it appears that my daughter found a notice in an Albany, Oregon, newspaper dated November 2, 1888.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[The state rights democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1865-1900, November 02, 1888, Image 4]

What drew me to O.T.'s profile today was one of those green leaves that denotes a hint from Ancestry which turned out to be the 1890 marriage certificate for his marriage to Carrie Delph in Sitka, Alaska, on August 21, 1890.

[Alaska State Archives; Juneau, Alaska; Description: Marriage Certificates, 1890 - 1913; Reference Number: VS 2999; Volume: Vol. 1. Ancestry.com. Alaska, Vital Records, 1818 -1963 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.]

Alonzo E. Austin, the Presbyterian minister who performed the ceremony, was the chaplain of the Industrial Training School where Carrie was teaching when she met my great great grandfather.

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Working on Wednesday: Barbara Hoadley Porter (1916 - 1978) Historian

Barbara Porter and her twin sister Betty were born in Seattle, Washington, in 1916. Here are their senior pictures from Garfield High School, Class of 1934. (Barbara is on the left)

[Ancestry.com - U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990]

According to U.S. Census records Barbara was still living with her parents in 1940. By 1953 she was married to Ernest V. Elkins, which seems to have been a second marriage for both of them. 

Barbara is one of my paternal first cousins, twice removed; the ancestors we share are B.R. Biddle and his wife Maria Evans.

[Ancestry.com]

I just learned about Barbara from these index cards in the State of Oregon's Biographical and Other Index Card File. So far I haven't been able to find out much more about my cousin's life, but it's clear she was very proud of her descent from Oregon Pioneers. (Note that the reference to scrapbooks--I wonder what's in them?)

[Ancestry.com. Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File, 1700s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Oregon, Biographical and Other Cards. Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon.]

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Monday Is for Mothers: Polly Williams (? - ?)

This paternal fourth great grandmother is one of my brick walls. The only time we've found her name is this record of her marriage to Barnabeth Herod in 1796 in from Davidson County, Tennessee.*

[Year: 1789 - 1971: Marriages. Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, TN, USA: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Microfilm.]

Here's the line of descent from Polly to me:

[Ancestry.com]

Of course it's entirely possible that Polly Williams isn't my ancestor--since we don't know her death date, Barnabas could be the son of a second wife of Barnabeth's whose name isn't recorded at all.



*Davidson County is centered on Nashville. Here's an 1795 map of Tennessee with the location of Nashville highlighted:

[Map of The Tennassee [sic] State. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection]

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Memento Mori: Oak Mound Cemetery - Healdsburg, California

Early Oregon pioneers Benjamin R. and Maria (Evans) Biddle, a pair of my paternal three-times great grandparents, are buried in this shaded plot. One of their sons (Edwin Webber Biddle 1849-1928), his wife Delora and their son Chester Edwin Biddle are also buried there.

[Courtesy of Nick Juran]

This photograph was taken by a friend who lives in Northern California and kindly volunteered to visit their graves and take some photos.

My direct ancestor, their daughter Matilda Biddle Porter (1846-1928) is buried in Corvallis, Oregon.


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Fashion Question? Whoopee Booties - The Style Success of the Season

Do you think one of your ancestors might have worn these in 1929?

[Sears Roebuck catalog, Fall 1929 - from the witness2fashion blog on Wordpress]

I found this image on one of my favorite blogs: witness2fashion which is a great resource, especially for "ordinary" clothing styles of the 1920s and 30s.*

I can picture my paternal grandmother Letta Estella Porter (1901-1974) donning a pair, though it doesn't appear that's what she was wearing in this snapshot taken in Dallas, Texas, on August 18th of that year.

[Courtesy of James E. Turnbull III]

*The blog also covers clothing styles of other decades as well.


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Monday Is for Mothers: Miss Letta E. Porter, Poet - 1917

My paternal grandmother was 15 when she submitted a poem to the Gulfport-Biloxi Daily Herald. Her effort was judged to be the fifth best.

["Jackson Man Wins Prize in "Miss Issippi Is Calling You" Contest," Biloxi Daily Herald (Biloxi, MS) April 21, 1917, page 1, col 4-5; digital image, NewspaperArchive (http://newspaperarchive.com : 28 Feb 2017).]

I wondered what Mr. Bougher's prize winning submission was like so I sought it out and discovered that there's more to the story.

["Prize Winning Poem, 'Mississippi Is Calling You" Biloxi Daily Herald (Biloxi, MS) April 24, 1917, page 1, digital image, NewspaperArchive (https://newspaperarchive.com/biloxi-daily-herald-apr-24-1917-p-1/).]

["["Winner of Prize Is Very Feminine" Biloxi Daily Herald (Biloxi, MS) April 24, 1917,

page 1, digital image, NewspaperArchive (https://newspaperarchive.com/biloxi-daily-herald-apr-24-1917-p-1/).

From a quick search of the newspaper archives it doesn't look The Herald ever printed Letta's poem.


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Working on Wednesday: Chauncey Shepard Porter (1822 - 1891), Bookseller

Chauncey, the oldest brother of my paternal grandfather Orville Tracy Porter, listed his occupation as "Bookseller" in the 1855 New York State Census. (We also learn that he was living in a frame--not log--house worth $700 and a boarder named Alfred Tubbs was residing there.)

[Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1855 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Census of the state of New York, for 1855. Microfilm. New York State Archives, Albany, New York.]

Five years later his occupation is given as "Pedlar" and I wonder if he was still selling books. (His family had grown and his house was still worth $700.)

[Year: 1860; Census Place: Mexico, Oswego, New York; Roll: M653_838; Page: 525; Family History Library Film: 803838. Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

Original data: 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.]

Chauncey lives in Mexico in Oswego County, New York, for the rest of his life and in later census records he was called a farmer. He's buried in Mexico Village Cemetery.

I worked in bookstores for many years so the occupation of this third great-uncle naturally caught my eye.





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Fantastic Find: Mississippi World War I Statement of Service Cards and Indices

Herbert W Porter's service card, from the Mississippi World War I Statement of Service Cards and Indices.

My great grandmother Letta Estella Porter's brother Herbert W "Dutch" Porter (1899-1975) was a World War I veteran, but I just couldn't find his service record anywhere (Ancestry, Fold3, or FamilySearch records).

He was a printer born in Mississippi and later lived in Chicago, where he also served as a chaplain for the Illinois Reserve Militia (World War II) association, but I suspected he didn't originally enlist in Illinois.  Following a lead in a Biloxi, Mississippi newspaper article that listed him among other local boys signing up with the Mississippi 2nd infantry (he spent much of his youth in nearby Gulfport), I went to the Mississippi archives, and sure enough found his service record!

This was a good reminder to me to always check state sources.

Thank you Mississippi Department of Archives and History.

A later picture of Herbert "Dutch" Porter with his nephew, sister Letta Estella's son Tracy Warren, in 1942, I think in Michigan. By this time Herbert was a Chicago resident.  Courtesy of Tracy Warren.

My cousin James Turnbull helpfully translated the service record:
Enlisted in National Guard Gulfport Mississippi

Company G 2nd Infantry Mississippi National Guard to Nov 19, 1917
Company D 140th Mechanized Battalion to March 6, 1918
Company D 142nd Mechanized Battalion to November 1, 1918
Company D 148th Mechanized Battalion to discharge

Private 1st Class 1/17
Corporal March 14 1918
Sargent June 21 1918



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Monday Is for Mothers: Timney P. Watts (1805 - 1863) - Who Were Her Parents?

There was a time when we thought they were Jacoby Watts and Elizabeth Harrison but we never found any evidence of it except for the surname. So that proposed relationship went from "speculative" to "doubtful" and was duly purged from our family tree.

Now we think there's a possibility that a man named Thomas Watts, a Morgan County* neighbor of Timney and Jesse Warren Jr., who was appointed administrator of Jesse Jr.'s estate, could be a relative of Timney, perhaps even her father or brother.

Here are the probate records setting a bond of $12,500 and naming Thomas Watts as administrator.

Georgia              }
Morgan County }

     Know all men by these presents that we Thomas
Watts William Stocks & Benjamin S ogletree are
held and firmly bound by their honors the Justices of
the Inferior Court sitting in a Court of ordinary for
Said County and their Successors in Office in the just
and full Sum of Ten thousand Dollars five hundred
Dollars for the payment of which sum to the said parties
and their successors we bind ourselves our heirs executors administrators
In the whole and for the whole ^sum^ Jointly and severally and formaly
by these presents Sealed with our Seals and dated this third
day of July 1826 This condition of the above obligation
Is Suck That if the above named Thomas Watts administrator
of the goods chattles and credits of Jesse Warren late of
this County deceased do make a just and true ^& perfect^  inventory

["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93L-59PL?cc=1999178&wc=9SYY-MNY%3A267727201%2C267727202 : 20 May 2014), Morgan > image 174 of 441;

county probate courthouses, Georgia.]

of all  ^Singular^ the goods chattles and credits of Said deceased
which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of
Said administrator or into the hands or possession of any
other person or persons for him, and the same so made to
exhibit into the Said Court of Ordinary when he shall
be thereunto required and such goods chattles and credits do
well administer according to law and to make a true and 
just account of his actings and doings therein when he shall
there unto be required by the Superior Court or the Court of ordinary
for Said County and all the rest of the goods chattles and credits
which shall be found remaining uppon the account of the Said administra
tion the Same being first allowed by the Court shall deliver
and pay to such person or persons respectfully as are entitled to the sum
by law and If Shall hereafter appear that any last will and 
testament was made by the said deceased, and the same 
be proved before the Court, and the executors affirm 
a certificate of the probate thereof and the Said Thomas Watts
do in Such case, if required, render and deliver up said letter
of administration then the obligation to be void or remain in
full force.
     Signed Sealed and acknowledged                  Thomas Watts [Seal]
           in Open Court                                           Wm Stocks [Seal]
                                                                             Benjamin S Ogletree
                               
                                  Recorded this 7th October 1826
                                     John W Porter C.C.O.

Thomas Watts was one of a number of men with the Watts surname in Morgan County. There are several other probates naming Thomas Watts as either an administrator or a guardian of an orphan and I'll be examining them in hopes of teasing out the relationships of the Watts family members in future posts.

In the meantime, here's the signatures to an 1823 bond and letters of administration issued to Pleasant Watts for the estate of a man named John Bailey. As you can see, three out of the four are named Watts.

["Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G93L-59YL?cc=1999178&wc=9SYY-MNY%3A267727201%2C267727202 : 20 May 2014), Morgan > image 126 of 441;

county probate courthouses, Georgia.]

*Morgan County, Georgia, was where Timney P. Watts and Jesse Warren were married. Since we know that Jesse Jr.'s family ties were in Hancock County, it seems likely that Timney's were in Morgan.

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Book Shelf: Historical collections of the state of New York, 1841

The subtitle to this tome explains why I'm posting about it here: containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c. relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Additionally the book has 230 engravings so there's some chance you might find one that depicts some part of the town where your New York State ancestors were in 1841.

[Historical Collections of the State of New York; John Warner Barber, 1798-1885, Henry Howe 1816-1893, joint authors,

published by S. Tuttle, New York, 1841. Source: Internet Archive]

Here's what it has to say about Brownville in Jefferson County where my maternal fourth great grandfather Isaac Leonard (c. 1780-1862) was living according to the 1840 U.S. Census.*

The authors have less to say about Mexico, located in Oswego County, the home of my paternal third great grandfather William Porter (1792-1868) and his family.**

In contrast the section for the town of Oswego (in the same county) where Lyman Worden (1791-1883), another maternal fourth great grandfather***, was a resident covers 4-1/2 pages of text and includes two engravings. That's too long to insert in this post but if you're interested, it begins here.


*Isaac Leonard

**William Porter

***Lyman Worden

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Searching for Matilda Biddle Porter in the Newspapers Using "Data Visualization: Journalism's Voyage West"

My 3rd great grandmother Matilda (Biddle) Porter (1846-1927) died in Lincoln County, Oregon. After she and Orville Tracy Porter divorced in 1888 she was found living with son Chester Porter in 1900 in Albany, Linn, Oregon (which she rented), and then with married daughter Alice in 1910 at 705 West Fifth Street, Albany, Linn, Oregon.  By 1920 she was renting and living alone on 112 Olive Street, Newport City, Lincoln, Oregon.  Seven years later she died in that county.

Despite using a range of terms, I did not get any results for her in my subscription databases (Newspapers, NewspaperArchive, and GenealogyBank) nor in the free Historic Oregon Newspapers (with the exception of her divorce notice in 1888).


What newspapers were known to be in Lincoln around the time she lived and died there?  One can check the Library of Congress' U.S. Newspaper Directory this way:

But I need visuals!

Instead, I decided to use a visualization of that information from "Data Visualization: Journalism's Voyage West (I did a Fantastic Find post of this resource last year).

This visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress' "Chronicling America" project, which maintains a regularly updated directory of newspapers. 

Closeup of Oregon, with the year slider at 1930.  The newspapers published in Lincoln, Oregon (at least known by the Library of Congress) were the "Newport journal" and "Yaquina Bay news," neither of which appear to be digitized online anywhere (yet). Clicking on the newspaper titles takes you to the LOC Chronicling America website.

Using the "Libraries that Have It" tab reveals that the "Univ of Oregon Libr, Eguene, OR" has "Newport journal".

"Univ of Oregon Libr, Eguene, OR" has "Yaquina Bay news" as well.

I assume this means the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.  The UO libraries include Knight Library, possibly the first place I should check for the microfilm of these newspapers.

Both newspapers are at the Knight Library.

Ooh, the microfilm can be borrowed (interlibrary loan)?  Nice.

So at least now I have a lead on where to go and who to contact in order to search these non-digitized newspapers.

If I write up a research plan for additional research on Matilda I can use this information.



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