Philadelphia, Mississippi Obituaries
Scope and Contents
This collection contains obituaries, death notices, and other newspaper articles from the Neshoboa Democrat newspaper in Philadelphia, Mississippi from 1990 to 2001. The obituaries were clipped and organized chronologically. Some of the obituaries were photocopied while others are the originals. The obituaries have been mounted onto paper and the pages are numbered. Each page has been put in sheet protectors and organized into binders. During the processing of this collection, the sheets were removed from the binders and put into acid free folders. Each year includes an alphabetical index.
Dates
- Creation: 1990 - 2001
Creator
- Wilder, Mary Lou (Compiler, Person)
- Neshoba Democrat (Philadelphia, Mississippi) (Publisher, Organization)
Biographical / Historical
Philadelphia is the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi. It’s newspaper, the Neshoba Democrat, was first published in 1881 by Charlton A. Brand as a weekly newspaper. The paper has changed owners frequently over the years but has always remained a weekly newspaper.
Full Extent
2 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
FOR STAFF: Rare Book Room, M14--Section 3--Shelf 5
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Philadelphia, Mississippi
- Subtitle
- A finding aid from the Midwest Genealogy Center
- Author
- Jolene Clark
- Date
- 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Midwest Genealogy Center Repository