>Have you tried to find funeral home records? This was about the >time funeral homes came into use. I would look on line for funeral >homes in the area that is the most likely. Tracy area. If you can >find ads with information about how long the home has been >established, that would be the one to CALL (otherwise, call any one >of them, or in close by communities if needed) - ask if their >records go back to 1886. If they don't, ask if they know where >records that old may be kept - if any. If you can determine your >person/people might be in their records, thank them, hang up and >then compose a basic, but complete as possible, query letter asking >if they would please send photocopies. Tell them your relationship >(privacy act), what you have for birth, death and family. Do not go >into conjecture, lengthy details etc. Include a check for $5 or so, >for their trouble. And, an self-addressed, stamped envelope. If Lucy is not in Tracy, then do the same for Liletown. Funeral home people are among the nicest in the world for helping family historians. Most of the time they will send what you need, sometimes more than you asked for, and often will return your check. Not that $5 or $10 is going to break anyone's bank account - not at the price of death certs in some states! Mine for one... Oh yes, the reason for the letter rather than over the phone information, is you want the documentation. :-) Good luck! JoAnn >Hello Listers, > >My gg grandfather, George Preston SMITH and wife, Lucy were on >the 1880 Barren Co., KY (Tracy area) census living next to >daughter and son in law, Eliza Jane and Richard >Scarberry. George died in 1886 and I assume buried in the >Tracy area. In 1890 my gg grandmother, Lucy K. >Narramore SMITH died near Liletown, Green Co., KY living with her >dau, Eliza Jane and son in law, Richard. Must have moved >sometime between 1880 and 1890 to Green Co., KY > >I can't find any record of their deaths in Barren or Green Co., KY >. My question/s : Is there any record of deaths >then in a local newspaper for county deaths and if Lucy died >after George in next county over, would her body be taken back to >where her husband George was buried ??? Not sure if it was the >custom to try and bury spouses together even if the deaths took >place in another area of the state. Perhaps a church record >would have some record of their passing, but have not found one >yet. No record of George and Lucy in this 10 years time >frame since they were not landowners. > >Any help would be greatly appreciated...........one of those brick >walls that I can't seem to break down on my SMITH line. > >Thanks, > >Charlene Smith Lewis >