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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="2006/2006">2006</unitdate>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Piedmont Herald Obituary Index, A&amp;M 4261, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Electronic file of obituary index for the Piedmont Herald newspaper, published in Mineral County, West Virginia.  Includes 31,000 entries with first and last names for period 1888-2006.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <subject source="ingest">Obituaries and death records.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Deaths - Mineral County.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Mineral County - Deaths.</subject>
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