Shellee, May I ask who you are researching in the Ooton, Shirley, and Anderson lines. Eleanor ----- Original Message ----- From: <SHELLEEANDERSON@cs.com> To: <ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [ILEFFING-L] Samuel Southern > The best source for deaths in this time period is probate records, wills, > cemetery records and headstones. Even though death records started in > 1878, no one was required to report the death until the early 1900's. > > Shellee Anderson > Researching: Anderson, Brewer, Brimmeier, Curry, Grove, Ooton, Shirley, > White, and Wiegel > > "Audrey Garbe" <audrey@effingham.net> wrote: > >>Effingham Co. death records started in 1878. >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Merle Southern" <mjsouth@rollanet.org> >>To: <ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 9:49 PM >>Subject: [ILEFFING-L] Samuel Southern >> >> >>> Samuel Southern was shown in the 1870 Effingham Co, IL census with his >>wife Susan, sons Thomas and Alpherd, and daughter Mary. The family moved >>to >>Jasper Co, MO, prior to 1875. However, Samuel did not arrive in MO. It is >>thought that Samuel may have died sometime during the period 1870 and >>1875. >>It is known that Effingham Co had a major cholera epidemic in 1872-1873 >>and >>IL had enfluenza in 1873. Are there death records available for Effingham >>Co for the time periods shown? >>> >>> >>> ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== >>> If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send >>> e-mail >>to ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the >>> digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe >>> or >>> unsubscribe in the message body. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >>==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== >>If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail >>to ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the >>digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or >>unsubscribe in the message body. >> >> > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail > to ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > unsubscribe in the message body. > > >