NEWSPAPER CLIPS FROM OLD ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA NEWSPAPERS The following information was transcribed from microfilmed records of the local Rockingham County, Virginia newspapers: The Rockingham Register, The Harrisonburg Daily News, and The Daily-News Record, Harrisonburg, Virginia. This transcription includes excerpts from scattered issues for the years 1822-1914. Not all years are complete. If you would like to go straight to the news clips, skip the background and scroll directly to the WHITLOCK surname. BACKGROUND The Rockingham Register (also called the Rockingham Register and Virginia Advertiser) began publication in 1822. Very few of the earliest issues of this newspaper from 1822-1865 have survived. For example, only one issue (October 5, 1822) is available for the entire year 1822. There is a more complete collection of microfilmed issues of the Rockingham Register available at the Library of Virginia for the years 1866-1904, with a few scattered missing issues. The Harrisonburg Daily News began publication in about 1904. It was published under the name The Harrisonburg Daily News until June 3, 1913. On June 4, 1913 the name was changed to The Daily News-Record. The Daily News-Record is still in publication today. This transcription probably does not include every reference to all of the WHITLOCKS mentioned in the newspapers. Some of the microfilm is of poor quality and not easy to read, and I'm sure I probably missed a few entries. Every effort was made to transcribe the records accurately. However, if you think an error has been made, please contact me so that I may double check my notes, or you may wish to check the original source for yourself. Bridgewater College, Virginia Microfilm Holdings of the Rockingham Register for the Years 1822-1865 (as per information on microfilm): The following issues are available through interlibrary loan on microfilm from Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia. Please contact your local library for more information. 1822-October 5 1825-May 12, August 11 1827-May 12 1833-June 19, March 9, April 13, November 9, November 30, December 7 1836-October 29 1839-March 23, December 21 1840-August 15 1841-January 10, February 20 1842-April 9, May 7 1844-May 4, November 16 1849-October 13 1861-October 18 1863-January 2, December 18 1865-May 12 Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia Microfilm Holdings of the Rockingham Register for the years 1866-1904 (as per information on microfilm): The following issues are available through interlibrary loan on microfilm from The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. Please contact your local library for more information. The following years are complete EXCEPT for: 1866-January 19, December 27 1867-June-October 10 1868-January 2, April 2, 9, September 17-December 1869-January-May 13, May 27-October 7 1870-June 16, September 15, 22, 29, October 6, December 29 1871-September 28 1872-March 29, July 19, September 13, 27, October 4, 11 1873-October 17 1874-October 22 1875-November 11 1876-December 28 1877-December 27 1881-October 6 1882-June 1, December 21 1883-September 20, 27, October 4 1890-March 7 1900-October 19 1903-May 29, June 23, July 7, August 3, 10 1904-February 19 WHITLOCK ~~~~~ WHITLOCK ~~~~~ WHITLOCK ~~~~~ WHITLOCK ~~~~~ WHITLOCK Rockingham Register, Harrisonburg, Virginia Thursday, November 25, 1869: Married. On the 7th inst., by REV. A.J. KIBLER, BENJ. J. CARROL and MISS LUCY C. WHITLOCK, all of Rockingham. Rockingham Register, Harrisonburg, Virginia December 17, 1874: Married. At Waynesboro on the 10th instant, C. AUGUSTUS WHITLOCK and MISS EMMA J., dau. of WM. B. ALEXANDER. Rockingham Register, Harrisonburg, Virginia December 21, 1876: Commissioner's Notice. John N. Gordon and Williams..... Complt's vs. Pleasant A. Whitlock in his own right, and as such Executor of Simon Miller, dec'd, Eliza A. Whitlock, John Dixon and Virginia, his wife, Hunter Whitlock, Wm. Whitlock, Horatio, Betsy, Lucy and Charles Whitlock, infants, and D. H. Lee Martz, guardian ad litem, Df'ts in Chancery in the Circuit Court of Rockingham County. "It is adjudged, ordered and decreed that this cause be referred to one of the Commissioners of this Court to settle the account of P. A. Whitlock, Executor of Simon Miller, dec'd, and to ascertain the real estate of which the said Simon Miller died seized, the liens upon the same and their priorities."--Extract from decree. Rockingham Register, Harrisonburg, Virginia May 3, 1883. Married. April 23, 1883, by REV. A. A. ESKRIDGE, MR. A. J. WHITLOCK to MISS ANNIE B. WINEGARD, both of Rockingham county. Rockingham Register, Harrisonburg, Virginia September 29, 1887: Dale Enterprise Dottings. MISS ALICE WHITLOCK of Augusta county is a guest of D. A. HEATWOLE of this place. Harrisonburg Daily News, Harrisonburg, Virginia April 6, 1904: E. A. WHITLOCK, an insurance agent of Staunton, was in town yesterday. Harrisonburg Daily News, Harrisonburg, Virginia Tuesday, September 19, 1905: News of Broadway. AUBREY M. WHITLOCK left Tuesday afternoon for Edom where he has a position with the Swank Milling Co. Harrisonburg Daily News, Harrisonburg, Virginia Friday, January 5, 1906: News from Edom. AUBREY WHITLOCK and his sister, MISS MARIAN, returned Sunday, from a week's visit to friends at Broadway. Harrisonburg Daily News, Harrisonburg, Virginia Friday, January 5, 1906: Holiday Visitors at Broadway. A.M. WHITLOCK of Edom, returned home Thursday afternoon, after a visit to friends here. Harrisonburg Daily News, Harrisonburg, Virginia August 24, 1906: LUTHER WHITLOCK, a former Harrisonburg plasterer, shot by wife, from Berkley Springs, W. Va. Harrisonburg Daily News, Harrisonburg, Virginia Friday, October 16, 1908: Two killed at Crimora. TOM WHITLOCK and son EMMET lost their lives Tuesday, in the manganese mines at Crimora. They were digging ore and the mines caved in on them. They had been warned of danger, as the earth had cracked, but paid no attention to it. The bodies were recovered. WHITLOCK leaves a wife and a large family of children.