Kenneth It only costs $10.00 for a 5 year search at MO Dept of Vitals. Why not spend $30.00 and expand the search from 1945 to 1965, in 5 year increments starting with 1955 to 1960, then 1945 to 1950 and if necessary from 1960 to 1965??????? Does your elderly relative, or any of your other relatives, know what prison Claude was in??? Or why he was in prison??? You might want to ask around and see what you can turn up. You might also want to visit the Missouri Department of Corrections web page and get the address for the Public Information Officer (take the link to the Directors page). Send him a request to see what if any records may be available, and who the designated caretaker for the department records is, re the Missouri Sunshine law. If the MO Dept of Vitals can't find a death record, then contact the Corrections Public Information Officer. If that fails, you may want to use the Missouri Sunshine law to get at the Department of Corrections records. Dept of Corrections... www.corrections.state.mo.us MO Attorney General's page , for Sunshine Law info www.ago.state.mo.us/sunintro.htm Finding the death notice and cemetery with out a date is unlikely, as this information does not appear to be indexed anywhere. I would anticipate the Claude is buried in a Potters Field near the prison he died in, given that relatives did not claim the remains and he likely had no resources to pay for a funeral. Good Luck Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Kenneth L. Goldsberry" <goldsdlf@lamar.colostate.edu> To: <KansasCity-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 5:12 AM Subject: [KansasCity] Pre 1910 Kansas City Obituaries > Dave Goldy... you had my hopes up until I read the KC obits were prior to 1910 ... and from 1910 on one has to contact the archives or dig, dig, dig. I'm looking for the death date and notice of a MO prison inmate Claude Robinson who died in one of the MO prisons after 1950... and a notice was placed in a KC newspaper asking the family to claim the body for burial. An elderly (95) very sharp minded relative thought the year was 1952 and in KC, but the MO Dept of Vitals did not find his death from 1950 through 1954. Any suggestions on locating the death and notice. By the way, no one claimed the body and I'm seeking the cemetery where he might be buried. >