Series 83774
BEAVER COUNTY (UTAH). COUNTY CLERK [114]DEATH REGISTER, 1900-19051 microfilm reel
A separate agency history is available.
DESCRIPTION: These records contain death registers for Beaver County for the years 1900 to 1905. Each entry has the decedent's name, occupation, age, term of residence in county, marital status, sex, race, color, last place of residence, cause of death, date of death, the name of the party making the report, and the entry's assigned number.
Beginning in 1898, each physician, clergyman, justice of the peace, and undertaker was required to keep a registry of the name, age, residence, and time of death of the decedent. Each person registering deaths filed quarterly with the county clerk or the local board of health in the case of incorporated cities. (Revised Statutes of Utah 1898, Title 57, p. 474-475)
In 1905, the Utah legislature passed a law that required uniform death certificates to be filed with the local registrar who in turn filed with the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.
ARRANGEMENT: These records are chronological by year but not by month. Entries were recorded in order of report, not by date of death.
RELATED RECORDS: Series 81448 , Death certificates of the Bureau of Vital Statistics, contains death records after 1904.
FINDING AIDS: An electronic index has been created and is available online.
PROCESSING NOTE: Processed by M. Call in September 1998.
PREFERRED CITATION: Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
GAPS: Though by law the County Clerk was required to maintain these records beginning in 1898, this register contains no entries prior to 1900.
