An Oklahoma City woman is trying to unravel a mystery that goes back more than 200 years.
"This blew me away, this is a dream," Jennifer Jones said.
Jones acquired five leather-bound books of newspapers from various Pennsylvania dating back to the early 1800s.
"History is everything. We have to learn from it. We have to keep it sacred," Jones said.
Jones acquired the newspapers when her uncle died suddenly in 2020.
She now wants to learn why her uncle held on to the articles.
"I imagine he wanted the newspapers so we could look up possible ancestors," Jones said.
With the help of a museum in Pennsylvania, Jones gathered that the newspapers were collected by Pennsylvania Canal Commissioner James Clark who is written about in several articles.