David, The Highland County Genealogical Society, officially known as "The Southern Ohio Genealogical Society" has published a book listing births and deaths for only 1856-57. The regular birth/death records, however, do start in 1867 as you mentioned. On page 44 of the 1856-57 deaths is the following entry for your query: "McDANIEL, Samuel 29 Jul 1856 68 New Petersburg Hemoptisis M W Wd Farmer Centerfield, VA" Hope this helps. Norman Runyon David Moore wrote: > Hell all. I just noticed, while surfing the pages of the Ohio state > library that there are death records for the year 1856 for Highland. > Does anyone else know naymore about this? I was under the assumption > that they didn't beging recording deaths until 1867. I am looking for > the death of Samuel McDaniel, who died in 1856. If anyone can help, > please drop me a line. > Thanks, > Dwight Moore