St. Louis Death Indexes, Obituaries & Cemeteries
Missouri Death Indexes & Newspaper Obituaries
- Missouri Pre-1910 Birth & Death Records Index from the Missouri State Archives (partial) indexes over 185,000 records from 87 counties
- Missouri Death Certificates Index and Images 1910-1962 includes free downloadable images of the death certificates; see the "ordering vital records" section below for information on obtaining copies of MO death certificates after 1962
- Missouri Death Records and Index 1834-1910 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) includes images from the death registers for many of the listings; coverage varies by county
- Missouri Coroner's Inquest Database (historical) includes Andrew County, Cape Girardeau, Clinton County, Perry County, St. Francois County, St. Louis, and Stoddard County (years vary)
- Missouri Obituary Archive (recent)
 (you can obtain copies of the obituaries online for a fee); includes...
- Columbia Daily Tribune (1/2/1998-Current)
- Hannibal Courier-Post (12/9/1997-Current)
- Independence/Blue Springs/Grain Valley Examiner (1/2/2009-Current)
- Jefferson City News-Tribune (3/5/1999-Current)
- Joplin Globe (1/27/2005-Current)
- Kansas City Star (1/2/1991-Current)
- Lee's Summit Journal (3/1/2007-Current)
- St. Joseph News-Press (10/5/2000-Current)
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1/1/1988-Current)
- And others
Free Missouri Death Indexes by County
- Adair County: Obituaries & Death Notices Index for the Kirksville Daily Express, 1977-recent also has Kent Funeral Home Records, and gravestone indexes for Adair County and Putnam County
- Andrew County - Register of Deaths 1883-1893
- Bates County Cemeteries
- Buchanan County Death Register 1883-1893
- Butler County...
- Cass County Historical Society Obituaries Index
- Christian County Cemeteries & Other Records
- Christian County Records includes Chaffin Funeral Home Records 1917-1962 (PDF files)
- Cooper County Genealogy Records includes cemeteries, death records and some obituaries
- Dent County, Missouri Deaths 1883-1885
- Gentry and Worth Counties: Cemetery Transcriptions from the Carnegie Library in Albany, MO (PDF files)
- Greene County: Index to Coroner's Record Books 1875-1972 abstracts of suspicious, unnatural or unattended deaths
- Greene County: Hall's Index and Items of Genealogical Interest from Springfield Newspapers
- Grundy County Cemeteries
- Harrison County Cemeteries
- Harrison County: Partial Obituaries Index for 1988-1990
- Henry County Cemetery Records
- Independence - see Jackson County below
- Iron County Cemeteries, Wills, Death Index and more
- Jackson County...
- Jefferson County...
- Johnson County...
- Joplin - see Jasper County in the next section (below)
- Kansas City - see Jackson County above
- Lee's Summit - see Jackson County above
- Macon County Obituary Index 1874-1933
- McDonald County Obituaries
- Mercer County Cemeteries
- Miller County Obituaries and Probate Index
- Moniteau County Cemetery Burials and Death Indexes
- Newton County Cemetery Burials and Obituaries Index from the Newton County Historical Society
- Newton County: Neosho Library Obituary Database
- Polk County Genealogical Society Obituaries Index
- Putnam County - see Adair County above
- Randolph County Death Index
- Ray County: Deaths Recorded in the Lawson Review 1991-2008 (some years missing)
- Reynolds County Cemetery Records
- St. Charles County Historical Society Genealogy Records Search (includes obituaries, probate records and more)
- St. Charles Library Local Genealogy Indexes includes: Oak Grove Cemetery Database and St. Charles Local Newspaper Index (starts with 1988)
- St. Francois County: Farmington Public Library Obituary Index linked to digital copies of the obituaries (also includes obituaries from other Southeast Missouri counties)
- St. Louis - See the link for St. Louis City and County at the top of this webpage
- Ste. Genevieve County Cemeteries
- Schuyler County Cemeteries
- Shannon County Cemeteries and Assorted Obituaries from the Current Wave
- Stone County Cemeteries and Burial Index (burial index has over 10,000 names)
- Sullivan County Deaths from Newspapers 1875-1899 (not complete)
- Sullivan County Cemeteries (some with transcriptions)
- Vernon County Probate Records Index
- Washington County Cemeteries
- Wayne County Cemetery Tombstone Photographs
- Worth County - see Gentry County above
Fee-Based Missouri Death Indexes and Obituaries by County
- Missouri Death Indexes by County Available at Ancestry (these require an Ancestry subscription)...
- Missouri Newspaper Death Index
 presently includes...- Callaway County 1846-1926, 19,179 records
- Cole County 1884-1907, 1,617 records
- Montgomery County 1875-1994, 29,580 records
- Audrain County, Missouri Deaths, 1876-1905
- Ancestry also has indexes for Audrain County obituaries 1885-1942
- Callaway County, Missouri Deaths, 1900-1948
- Ancestry also has indexes for Callaway County obituaries 1888-1955
- Cole County...
- Jasper County
- Lincoln County, Missouri Deaths, 1866-1936
- Livingston County, Missouri, Cemetery Records
- Moniteau County, Missouri Deaths, 1858-1931
- Montgomery County, Missouri Deaths 1898-1952
- Ancestry also has a Montgomery County Obituaries Index 1889-1935, and some cemetery indexes
- Pike County, Missouri Deaths, 1878-1917
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St. Clair County, Missouri Deaths, 1906-1929
- St. Clair County, Missouri Obituaries, 1888-1928
Ordering Missouri Vital Records
- Order Missouri Vital Records by Mail (fees and restrictions apply)
- Missouri State Archives Death Certificates 1910-1962 are available for free downloading online -- see the link in the Missouri death indexes section above
Also helpful... Missouri Genealogy Databases at Ancestry (requires payment) includes census records, WWI draft cards, WWII army enlistments, vital records, historical newspapers and city directories
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