Chatham County (North Carolina) People: Newspaper Gleanings of Genealogical and Historical Interest 1824 – 1879 (U.S. County Genealogy & History Gleanings)

Here's the biggest compilation ever of newspaper items from the mid-19th century referencing people connected to Chatham County, North Carolina. These extracts, covering nearly six decades and drawn from a wide selection of newspapers, are a trove of wonderful information for anyone tracing ancestors or researching the history of this area.

These painstakingly collected "gleanings" include a variety of item types, among them:

• Marriage announcements
• Death notices
• Longer obituaries and tributes
• Accident and disaster stories
• Court trials and lawsuits
• Business advertisements
• Runaway slave notices
• Civil War battle reports involving Chatham soldiers
• Social gossip
• Church news
• Land sales
• Political news
•  ... and more.

Aside from the value to family history researchers, these newspaper excerpts make fascinating reading, especially for anyone with a connection to or interest in Chatham Countty or this part of North Carolina generally. Here we read about religious revivals, state and county fairs (with names of prize winners from Chatham), temperance meetings, moonshine raids, hangings, robberies, coal mine collapses, war support meetings (find out who knitted socks for the soldiers), and other events big and small - all of them "naming names."

If there's any chance that your Chatham County kin could have shown up in a newspaper, you owe it to yourself to check out this big collection of extracts.

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