AGENCY: Centerville (Utah)

SERIES: 30390
TITLE: Cemetery records
DATES: 1898-
ARRANGEMENT: None.

DESCRIPTION: This series contains records kept by the sexton and by the city documenting the business of the cemetery. Included are a record of burials, a register of deaths, a ledger of cemetery board meeting minutes, and a financial ledger. The record of burials contains such information as the name, age, date of death, cause of death, cemetery plot, sex, marital status, physical description, ethnicity, occupation, last known residence, place of birth, and place of death of the deceased. The register of deaths contains similar information except does not typically note the cemetery plot. The record of board minutes is sparse and only contains minutes from early meetings, including the governing rules of the board and a handful of bookkeeping notes. The ledger tracks payments toward the cemetery's general fund and other cemetery finances by owners of plots.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

Retention and disposition for this series is authorized by Archives general schedule Burial records, GRS-286

AUTHORIZED: 08/15/2022

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

The records in this series are of permanent historical value as documentation of the management of a city cemetery and genealogical value as documentation of deaths.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

---