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Obituaries

All obituaries prior to 2019 are in microfilm format at the Jefferson County Public Library local history room. You can use our search function below

to request that a copy be emailed to you. You are also welcome to visit our room in person and use our microfilm readers. 

Obituaries from 2019 onward can be viewed online at the Library's Internet Archive page (maybe hyperlink this?). Just click the link in the search result to go to the Archive.

Physical indexes are available for viewing in the Library's local history room.

Obituary Search

Death Records

• City of Madison Death Records 1838-1850

• Death Records of Dr. William D. Hutchings

• Jefferson County Wills

• Mortality Lists from 1850-1860-1870-1880 Censuses

Funeral Home Records

An index to Vail’s Undertaker Records from 1840 – 1880 is available in the Local History and Genealogy room at the Jefferson County Public Library and will be added here soon. Branham & Ritchie, Branham & Chambers, and Jos. B. Schnieder records will be added here as they are digitized. They are available on microfilm in the Local History and Genealogy room at the Jefferson County Public Library.

• Gans Funeral Home Records A-G

• Gans Funeral Home Records H-L

• Gans Funeral Home Records M-R

• Gans Funeral Home Records S-Z

• Lytle Funeral Home Records A-K: 1922-1956

• Lytle Funeral Home Records L-Z: 1922-1956

• Vail's Undertaker Records 1880-1896 A-F

• Vail's Undertaker Records 1880-1896 G-L

• Vail's Undertaker Records 1880-1896 M-S

• Vail's Undertaker Records 1880-1896 T-Z

• Vail's Undertaker Records 1897-1916 A-K

• Vail's Undertaker Records 1897-1916 L-Z

• Vail's Undertaker Records 1917-1925

• Vail's Undertaker Records 1926-1936

Cemetery Records

The lists below consist of surveys of cemeteries throughout Jefferson County, Indiana. Not all cemeteries and graveyards are included here. For a more up-to-date list of Springdale Cemetery interments, visit FindAGrave.com.

• Buchanan Cemetery (aka Lee Cemetery)

• Caledonia Cemetery

• Canaan Cemetery

• Carmel Cemetery

• Cemetery in area of Power Plant

• Etherton Graveyard

• Fairmont Cemetery Internment Records 1905-2005 A-G

• Fairmont Cemetery Internment Records 1905-2005 H-R

• Fairmont Cemetery Internment Records 1905-2005 S-Z

• Flat Bottom Cemetery (aka Indian-Kentuck Cemetery)

• Fry Graveyard

• Greenbriar Cemetery (aka Butler-Wooley Cemetery)

• Hebron Cemetery Records 1814-1982 A-J

• Hebron Cemetery Records 1814-1982 K-Z

• Jefferson Church Cemetery

• Lemen Graveyard

• Mermoud Graveyard

• “Old” Bethel Cemetery

• Riker Cemetery

• Risk Graveyard

• Rodgers/Rogers Graveyard

• Sharon Hill Cemetery

• Short Graveyard

• Skeen Graveyard

• St. Anthony Cemetery

• St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery A-C

• St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery D-G

• St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery H-J

• St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery K-Mc

• St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery M-R

• St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery S-Z

• Thorton Graveyard

• Veterans' Marked Graves

• Welch Graveyard

• Zoar Cemetery