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  1850 St. Louis County Mortality Schedule Index

  1896 Cyclone Deaths

  Family Bibles

  Deaths in St. Louis City from Day Book of Dr. W. John Harris

  Deaths of St. Louis Police Officers, 1861–1899

  Deaths Reported in St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 1881–1891

  Holy Cross Lutheran Church Deaths, 1859–1910

  Holy Ghost Deaths, 1846–1848

  Holy Ghost Evangelical Church Burial Records, 1849

  Irish Vital Records from Newspaper Files

  Merchants Exchange Members’ Deaths, 1875–1910

  Missouri Death Records Online

  Missouri Republican Admin. Notices 1846

  Missouri Republican Deaths 1849

  Records from El Paso, Texas, Newspapers, 1886–1890s

  Rock Hill Presbyterian Deaths, 1845–1890

  St. Louis Argus Obituaries

  St. Louis Fire Department Deaths, Pre-1914

  St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituaries

  St. Paul Lutheran Church Deaths, 1880–1940

  Sunstroke Deaths

  Traffic Accident Fatalities, 1935-1945

  Wives of German Methodist Ministers
  

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  Missouri Death Certificates
  

Deaths

Information regarding the death of an ancestor can come from many sources including death registers or certificates; coroner, cemetery, church, funeral home and probate records; obituaries; news articles; tombstones; wills; and burial permits. If the information is not located in one record, try another area.

St. Louis started keeping death registers as early as 1850; however, registration was not required in the beginning. About 1880 the City required death registration and burial permits. In 1910, the state of Missouri started recording death certificates. Missouri Archives has indexed and posted images of death certificates that are over fifty years old on their website.

Obituaries are a great source of information, as are funeral home records. Coroners’ records are available for unnatural deaths, homicide, suicide, and accidents. Tombstones provide good information, but even those are incorrect occasionally. Check the neighborhood within the cemetery. Are other relatives buried nearby?

Whatever type of death record you use, remember that some of the information is secondary. The name of the deceased and date of death are probably correct. The date of birth or the name of the deceased’s parents is secondary information based on the knowledge of the informer. Utilize several death sources to determine the correct information.