Tom Mooney wrote a good column for the Times Leader today. It included suggestions on how to go about locating online data for Northeastern Pennsylvania.
One important bit of information I got from the article is that The Sunday Independent, published in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania from 1906 through 1993, is digitized for the years 1913-1927 and is accessible online at free of charge. The papers may be found and searched at http://www.accesspadr.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/wbsunind. It looks to me like 682 complete papers have been digitized.
I did a search for the surname, Canfield, and got 16 hits. The following illustration shows the first four of those hits. Click on the image to see all 16 – at the site itself.
Clicking on the first example, I got the following obituary (screen shot from within the page).
