Series 83863
SUMMIT COUNTY (UTAH). COUNTY CLERK [1132]DEATH REGISTERS, 1898-19051 microfilm reel
A separate agency history is available.
DESCRIPTION: These records contain death registers for the years 1898-1905. Each entry has the decedent' s name, date of death, occupation, age, marital status, sex, race, color, residence, term of residence, cause of death, the name of the informant making report, and an 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 state passed a law requiring each county to file a uniform certificate 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: The first register, 1898-1901, is preceded by an alphabetical index based on the first letter of the decedent' s surname.
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: This register contains no entries for the years 1902 and 1903.
CONTAINER LIST
| Reel |
Register |
| 1 |
1898-1901 |
| 1 |
1904-1905 |
