When researching in old newspapers, don't count on the first name being right.

[The Genealogist]

9. I think I have a reason why information might be wrong in some of these old death notes/obits

I find quite a few that were written by "a friend of the family." Perhaps the family was in no state to write an obit, or family members were perhaps illiterate, or there were out of town guests to tend to. I've also seen, in older death records, especially death certificates, where children acting as informant did not always know their own grandparents' names. I suspect in those days, when families had moved away from their original homes and several states away, younger family members never met the folks back home. Often families recorded family demographics in a Bible, but in cases of moves or fires, these sources may have been unavailable.