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The Big Sandy News Archive

  • Louisa, Kentucky
  • 18851922

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Lynn Boyd Ferguson was 18 years old when he bought H.T. Lyttleton’s Lawrence County Index, from W.O. Johnson. Anderson Webb, also 18, was to be his partner. They called the paper the Big Sandy News, and August 27, 1885 marked their first issue. Printed in the Lawrence county seat of Louisa, the four-page weekly carried the slogan, “Aut Invenium Viam, Aut Facium” or “Either Find a Way or Make One,” The News was a “sprightly Democratic paper” that reached deep into Kentucky’s Eastern Mountain coalfields along the Big Sandy and Tug River Valleys. Coverage also included adjacent Wayne County, West Virginia.

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  • 9,533
  • Louisa, Kentucky
  • 18851922

Source Information

The Big Sandy News, 1885–1922 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: April 30, 2016

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Archive Info

  • 9,533
  • Louisa, Kentucky
  • 18851922

Source Information

The Big Sandy News, 1885–1922 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2024. Last updated: April 30, 2016