This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JMB.2ACE/977 Message Board Post: Edward Decourcy was killed in or near Slater MO Apr 1885 per an obituary notice. Would his death records be in Missouri or in Illinois where the body was interred? He was a railroad engineer and the body was escorted back to Illinois for burial by members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of Slater. I have not been able to find anything telling how he was killed.