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Obituaries

Search our local index for obituaries appearing in Lexington County newspapers. Newspapers from Lexington, Batesburg-Leesville and West Columbia are included in this index. The Batesburg-Leesville News, Southern Headlight, Summerland Headlight and The Twin City News are available at the Batesburg-Leesville Branch Library. All other newspapers are available at Lexington Main Library. The newspapers indexed are:

  • Batesburg-Leesville News โ€” 1921 to 1923
  • Lexington Dispatch โ€” 1870 to 1917
  • Lexington News โ€” 1915 to 1917
  • Lexington Dispatch-News โ€” 1873 to 2001
    (excluding issues between February 24, 1944 to October 4, 1962)
  • Lexington County Chronicle โ€” 1992 to 2001 and December 23, 2021 to present
  • Lexington County Chronicle and The Dispatch-News โ€” 2001 to December 16, 2021
  • Southern Headlight โ€” 1924
  • Summerland Headlight โ€” 1924 to1925
  • The Twin City News โ€” 1925 to present
  • West Columbia Journal โ€” 1955 to 1988
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