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I cannot find birth or death records for my 3rd great grandmother,Harriet C. Dean, ID LD6P-5QZ. The

brenda_dwyer
brenda_dwyer
March 1, 2021 edited July 10, 2024 in General Questions

Connecticut and Warren County, Illinois. They do not have the records either. Any suggestions?

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  • Linda Johnson_18
    Linda Johnson_18 ✭✭
    March 1, 2021

    Sometimes Mortuaries have those records if it is not too old. In some states early records might be kept by the township clerks.

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 1, 2021

    Birth and Death Certificates - didnt exist for the most part in the 19th century (1800's)

    other records you can look for are:

    Family Bible Records

    other Family documents

    Grave / cemetery records

    newspaper records

    etc.

     

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 1, 2021

    do you know if she is buried with her husband?

    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92454381/samuel-law

     

    you should probably look at newspapers of the period and locate her obituary

     

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  • LegacyUser
    LegacyUser ✭✭✭✭
    March 1, 2021

    We do not know that for certain. No grave has been found for her. I have cy for either her or her husband.

    hecked newspapers and have not found an obituar

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  • LegacyUser
    LegacyUser ✭✭✭✭
    March 1, 2021

    Harriet does not show up in any of the local cemetery records. The only thing of interest is that in the last census before she died, she was marked "I" for insane on the census form. I do not know if that was a mistake or not.

     

    We found her in an old family BIBLE record, but do not have direct access to the Bible.

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  • LegacyUser
    LegacyUser ✭✭✭✭
    March 1, 2021

    Too many typos above: I have checked for obituaries for either her or her husband and cannot find any.

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  • Family Bible
    Family Bible ✭✭✭
    March 2, 2021

    tell me more about the bible record you allude to.

    Thanks

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 2, 2021

    If she really was insane - she may have been sent to an asylum.

     

    Some of the things that happened in some of the the insane aslyusm of the past woud be pretty horrific

    and many of these insane asylum patients - - ended up being all but forgotten - and many buried or cremated and placed in unmarked graves near the hospital grounds or in a "potters field". Pretty sad.

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  • LegacyUser
    LegacyUser ✭✭✭✭
    March 2, 2021

    That is exactly what I am thinking. She very well may have been place in a grave next to her husband. I just feel that there must be some record of her death somewhere,

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  • LegacyUser
    LegacyUser ✭✭✭✭
    March 2, 2021

    Alice A. Law was an older sister to Mary E. Law, my great grandmother. She lived near Galesburg for awhile, and married a guy named Smith and they split to Kansas (near Topeka!) where she died and is buried.

     

    At least 2 of Alice’s grand kids, Albert Henry Smith and Mildred Stubblefield born around 1905-1910 obtained membership in the Mayflower Society and Daughters of the Revolution

     Mildred provided a copy of a “family bible” and Harriet’s marriage (which we have). Mildred was accepted, and Albert tagged her application to obtain his.Harriet's birth is also documented in thi Bible document.

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