Janet, Have you contacted the cemetery for death certificate information,(They may not have death certificate but they should have record of where the body was shipped from.) Who serviced the body? Funeral Home? Cemerty records? From all of these records you should get where the person died at County and such. Have you tried that? Nelda From: Bennie White <bennie@netpathway.com> (SNIP) Janet, official death records before 1912 in MS will be hard to find. Mississippi officially began reporting deaths at the state level Nov 1912. Some counties kept scattered records before that and may be found at the local court house. If you knew the area where he died, perhaps an obit would have been published in a newspaper. Bennie _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com