Diana, The only thing you might hope to find for 1908 in the way of death records would be probate records or a will. As luck and hillbillies would have it, Taney was one of the last to comply with the state law in 1910--as late as 1914 isn't unheard of for a "missing" death cert. The doctors, unless I miss my guess, simply didn't like doing all that paper work. Plus, folks got buried within hours of their death, many times. If a doctor wasn't around, so be it. Vonda