These 20,568 obituaries came from various area newspapers.
Some are from 'The Bridgeport Index', some from 'The Wise County Messenger', and others are from sometimes unidentified local newspapers.
Thank you to Keith Bridwell and the staff at The Bridgeport Index for letting us photograph their old newspapers.
Thank you to The Wise County Heritage Museum for letting us scan some of their old obituary clippings. They have many others available from The Wise County Messenger (1980-2000) http://www.wisehistory.com/
Thank you to The Wise County Messenger for letting us copy the obituary text from their paper since 2000.
Thank you to David E. Pitts for 'mining' all of the older obituaries out of the newspaper pages, and for putting all of this collection into one indexed database.