Plans begin in 1898 for courthouse in McCook

Friday, January 5, 2018

When my house was quiet again, I went back to the Dalton newspaper which is available online at dalton.advantagepreservation.com to search for my mother, aunts, uncles, etc., which all lived in that vicinity at one time. Not many years are on the site for Dalton, there are far more papers copied for Yuma, Colorado, it just depends how many newspapers were actually available to be scanned. One thing I did find was in the personals section and that was the fact that my mom moved to McCook in 1941. That date had not ever been really clear to me but the paper noted that my grandparents had moved her to McCook and that Anton Rudd (a great uncle) had stayed at their farm while they were gone. You can search for papers by state or town on that site; navigating it is not as easy as I would like but definitely worth the effort.

To Read More
Subscribe Sign In
Continue reading with a subscription
Subscription options