This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FOWLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2V.2ADE/982.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: If you said what county he died in I don't recall, but there may have been a newspaper in the area that would have an obituary, OR sometimes Drs. kept records that were passed down in the family and sometimes people will reply to a query. It could be that the county kept death records? It could be that he owned property that was homesteaded and his wife had to prove she was widow to him. I really located some interesting things with women trying to prove they were widow of someone for various reasons, to get the homesteaded land or wanting the veterans land grant. Of course doing what you are doing helps too, getting the queries out there. I certainly wish you luck. It was my understanding that death & birth records were kept in AR after 1914. But of course it may have been kept in the county and if it was Searcy Co. AR I think their courthouse burned after every election or something. But the people there are very nice and I understand they have a good library. There is also a very good genealogy quarterly that a man prints for Searcy County, I think it is quarterly but it may be monthly. I subscribed to it for a while and it was the best I had seen for a long time, the man who prints it is really sharp. I think his name is Jim Johnson or something like that. It is on the Searcy Co. AR web page. I recently began to subscribe again and bought a book he wrote but I have not received them yet, I just sent the check the other day. Good luck with your search. Those Fowlers are hard to locate. Charlene