Thank you Jettie. I will try to write to the county, or e-mail them. It couldn't hurt. Your cousin, bev jettiep@peoplepc.com wrote: Hi, There are no death certificates, that early, in Arkansas. The state didn't mandate them until 1914, and even then, there will be few found on file. I have a very early death certificate , 8-1916-for an ancestor, because he was in the mental hospital at the time of his death. If those family members have a birth certificate, they could have been filed later, as a Delayed Birth Certificate, and those, I believe, are held on a county level. "A person should think with his heart". Sun Bear 1890 --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.