UTSV84040-A Emery County (Utah) Death Registers, 1898-1905 Finding aid written in English UTAH STATE ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE Series 84040 EMERY COUNTY (UTAH). COUNTY CLERK

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DEATH REGISTERS 1898-1905 1 microfilm reel

DESCRIPTION: These records contain death registers for the years 1898–1905. Each entry has an assigned number, name of decedent, age, sex, race, color, term of residence, birthplace, marital status, occupation, last place of residence, causes of death, date of death, and name of the party making the report.

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 register is preceded by an incomplete alphabetical index based on the first letter of the decedent' s surname. Not all entries are included in the index.

PROCESSING NOTE: Processed by M. Call in September 1998.