Some Perry County and area newspapers
SOURCE: most of this list was gleaned from footnote citations found in Harris and other Perry County materials. Therefore, we Know that Somewhere there is a copy! - at least for the cited years - try to find:
- Perry Counties newspapers:
- Southern Herald - 1837-1840's (first known)
(changed title to:)
- Marion Herald - 1839,1840,1841,1842
- Union Banner, 1851 (short-lived)
- True American, 1855
- Marion Commonwealth, 1859-1861
- (Burned 1857) re-established Weekly Commonweath
- Various papers dealing with period 1886-1994 are also microfilmed at AL History Department microfilmed & hardbound papers
- others referred to in footnotes:
- Weekly Commonwealth, 1859
- Canebrake Herald, Uniontown, 1861
- Weekly Marion American, 1861
- Marion Review, 1847
- Marion Time Standard, 1940
- Marion Standard, 1909
- Dallas Gazette (Dallas Co.?) 1858,1859
- Baptist Correspondent, Marion, 1861
- The Commonwealth, 1862, 1863
- Montgomery Weekly Mail, 1861
- Selma Free Press 1838
- others elsewhere:
- Tuskaloosa Gazette $$$ Even though our goal is free genealogy, I think that maybe you might want to contact - Morris Simon -msimon@stillman.edu- will do pay=for lookups at $2/per/lookup of papers ca 1870's.
- New Orleans Christian Advocate, 1852,1854
- Alabama Baptist (orig. Family Visitor) c 1840, Wetumpka became Alabama Baptist Advocate, 1849. (pp76-7)
- Macon Republican, Tuskeegee, 1850
- Tri-Weekly Flag & Advertiser, Montgomery, 1847
- Advertiser and State Gazette, Montgomery, 1855
- Alabama Beacon, Greesboro, 1849
- Livingston Journal (? place), 1865, 1866
- Weekly Independent, B'ham., 1877
If you have any additional information or corrections, please contact me. And Please, if you DO find and use any of these early papers, please let me know where you found them, what years, and so on - would be of help to others.
Page created 7 December 1997.