Warren County Genealogical Society
Warren County, Ohio
Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society
Obituaries

 

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This is an index of some of the obituaries kept in the files of the Warren County Genealogical Society. As more of the obituaries are indexed, they will be included here. If you find your ancestor listed here, and you are unable to come in to the library to look up the original obituary yourself, please contact our research department or click on our requesting photocopies by mail.

PLEASE HELP!
We are actively working to expand our collection of obituaries and need your help.  If you have a Warren County Obituary that is not in our index, please share a copy with us. You can mail them to us or you can email a scanned image of the obit in a jpg. file.  Please identify the name and date of the newspaper that it came from if you have that information.
 
OBITUARIES
Indexed alphabetically by year		 Indexed alphabetically by decade (not updated)
We are  only updating the calendar year files 

1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819
1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829
1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839
1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849
1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859
1860, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869
1870, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879
1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889
1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899
1900, 1901, 1902, 1903. 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919
1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929
 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939
 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949
 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959
 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
1970, 1971, 1972. 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
 no date
Mail Order Photocopy Request Form (PDF file)

pre 1870 [updated 29 Nov 2004]
1870-1879 [updated 7 Jan 2005]
1880-1889 [updated 2 Jan 2005]
1890-1899 [updated 7 Jan 2005]
1900-1909 [updated 2 Jan 2005]
1910-1919  [updated 2 Sep 2004]
1920-1929  [updated 2 Sep 2004]
1930-1939  [updated 4 Dec 2003]
1940-1949  [updated 17 Apr 2003]
1950-1959  [updated 17 Apr 2003]
1960-1969  [updated 23 Oct 2002]
1970-1979  [updated 17 Apr 2003]
1980-1989 A-L,  M-Z [updated 31 Oct 2003]
1990-1999 A-L,  M-Z  [updated 23 Jan 2003]
2000-2002  [updated 23 Feb 2004]

Although obituaries, death notices, funeral cards and similar items are typically considered a secondary source for most genealogical information, they nonetheless provide valuable clues that help to locate vital records and burial information for the deceased plus they can provide kinship information regarding parents, spouse, children and other family members.  Often they will provide a biographical sketch of the deceased and give hints as to where other family members are living.  Since births and death records were not systematically recorded in Ohio until 1867, early obituaries may be the only remaining source for some information regarding the deceased. 

Because of their value, WCGS has been collecting obituaries that relate to Warren County for many years.  Initially this "clipping collection" was primarily from The Western Star newspaper.  We have, however, steadily expanded the scope to include other Warren County newspapers and continue to do so.  The obituaries have been catalogued by years in binders located in the WCGS resource library in Lebanon, OH.  Each year has a separate name index.

Currently all Western Star and Lebanon Gazette microfilms available to us have been checked.  Society volunteers continue to add to the collection with new obituaries and by searching additional microfilms of older newspapers.  We are currently working through Franklin Chronicle microfilms.  This has been completed through 1923 and is continuing.  We also add other obituaries donated to the Society as they are received and hope you will mail us a copy of anything you may have that are not already listed here. 

Warren County, Ohio Obituary Index (2010 Edition)
This eighth edition compiled by Arne Trelvik, lists 87,909 obituaries dating from 1810 to 2010. Each entry provides name of deceased, year of death and page reference where the obituary may be located in our collection. The index includes 9,286 obituaries from the 19th century. It is available from the Warren County Genealogical Society for $25. Each entry contains the name of the deceased followed by the year they died and the page number in our binder where the obituary can be found.  All obituaries can be viewed in our resource library in person.  WCGS has a mail order photocopy program available for those who cannot visit our resource library in person. Please see the research page for more details. 

Please note the following:
1.  The quantity and quality of information in a particular obituary can vary greatly.  Some go on for multiple columns while others may only contain a line or two and not give much more than the deceased name and the death date.
2.  Although every effort has been made to eliminate duplicates, with a project this size, that can sometimes be difficult and we do not guarantee that some duplication has not crept into the collection.
3.  Image quality of some of the older microfilms is very poor.
4. 1850-1861 Miami-Visitor Death Notices and Obituaries - We no longer stock Karen Campbell's book of this title, but all of the obituaries in that book are also in our regular obituary index.

 

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