Hi, Everyone has probably googled oldest funeral home in Delaware and found Faries Funeral Home in Smyrna established in 1831. http://fariesfuneralhome.com/history.cfm . Another site lists Faries as one of the 100 oldest family businesses. and the 7th oldest family owned funeral home in the country. But what type of files would they have? Here in Mobile Alabama, someone, I believe, over ten years ago discovered some cards in the basement of a defunked funeral home, I believe. These cards had information regarding some of those they had arranged services and these cards included next of kin where born and date of birth, father and mother, and plot where buried. The Mobile genealogical society members did take care of the cards and I believe they had a soft cover book printed. So there is one funeral home's records which have been preserved.