Early Methodist journals/newspapers recognized the importance of publishing obituaries of ordinary persons as well as those well-known or preachers. Persons of other denominations contributed obituaries of their deceased relatives to the Methodist newspaper. Includes death notices for people who died in the South, primarily in Tennessee and Kentucky, but also including the states of Alabama, Virginia, Missouri, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas and North...

The newspaper publisher was located in Nashville, TN & had the name "Western Methodist" for only a short period of time. The scope of this newspaper was beyond Nashville and Davidson County. Primarily deaths and, to a smaller degree, marriages.