Roanoke Beacon Abstracts Update
Over the weekend I spent some time indexing issues of the Roanoke Beacon. I extracted articles from the March – June 1890 issues to the NC People in the Papers database. As usual, I focused on articles of genealogical interest such as obituaries, marriage notices, births, and mentions of specific family relationships. With this [...]
Deaths from the Roanoke Beacon
Newspaper indexing is one of my favorite pasttimes. For the past several years I’ve been working through older issues of the Roanoke Beacon paper teasing out information about Washington County residents. My first database is here and while searchable, I’ve never been completely happy with it. So, earlier in the year I started to redesign how [...]
Obituary: William Cotton Downing
Roanoke Beacon March 14, 1890 In Memoriam Our community was painfully shocked on Saturday morning last, the 8th inst., by the receipt of a telegram from Turtle Creek, Penn., the adopted home of the deceased, that Wm. Cotton Downing was dead, his death occurring suddenly in Asheville, N.C., on Thursday, the 6th inst. He had [...]
