The Stockton Evening Mail was published 2/1880 - 10/1917 and is available at the CA room of the state library....it can be borrowed by interlibrary loan Also the Daily Independent 8/1861 - 5/1940 Stockton Record 4/30/1895 to present http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp click on Place Search enter San Joaquin go to vital records and see what has been filmed...... you can order and read these records at your local FHC....the burial permit one might be worth ordering.... http://www.familysearch.org/ Family History Library System is the link Here are the San Joaquin ones..... Title: Death records, 1858-1860,1873-1905; index to deaths, 1857-1896, 1903-1924, 1950-1961 Authors: San Joaquin County (California). Recorder (Main Author Register of deaths, v. 1, 1858-1860 Register of deaths, v. 2, 1895-1905 Register of deaths, v. 3, 1873-1895 FHL US/CAN Film 1845025 Items 2-4 Index to burial or removal permits, 1857-1896 v. 1, A-Z, 1916-1922 FHL US/CAN Film 1845026 Item 3 Index to deaths, 1903-1924 FHL US/CAN Film 1845026 Item 1 Index to deaths, 1904-1922 FHL US/CAN Film 1845025 Item 5 ----- Original Message ----- From: <whatever@e3mil.com> To: <CASANJOA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 12:45 PM Subject: [CASANJOA] How far back are obits available? (Johnson, Tait) > I sent to the County Recorder for two death records, but they wrote back & said > the deaths must have occurred in a different county. A family member found > their graves in the Stockton Rural Cemetery: > Mrs. Sallie Tait - d. 26 April 1886, and Mrs. Nancy Johnson - d. 6 July 1904. > > I know that these two women came to Stockton about 1873; they must have moved > outside of county lines at some point, but their familes brought them back to > Stockton for burial. > Since I don't know where they were living at the time of death, I was hoping > there would be an obituary that would give that information & names of surviving > family, etc. Do obituaries in Stockton go back that far? > Any other suggestions? > Thanks, > Joan > whatever@e3mil.com > > > _______________________________________________________________ > Get your Private, Anti-Spam, Free Email at http://e3mil.com > Your Internet Home for Your Faith, Your Life, and Your World! > >