This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WMB.2ACE/4843.1 Message Board Post: The ENTIRE St. Louis Patch Dispatch Obituary index is available online dating back to the late 1800's. It is broken out by year and then alphabetically by categories (A-I, K-P, Q-Z or something) It gives you the date that the obituary was published. Might be a good place to start. Here is the link. http://www.sjcpl.org/databases/obituary/obituary.html Once you have a date, then you could write the City Clerk's office for a copy of the death certificate.