Series 84248

Weber County (Utah). County Clerk Death registers

Dates: i 1898-1905.

1 microfilm reel

These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.

Scope and Content

This series contains two registers listing deaths in the county during the years 1898-1905. The registers were created in compliance with state law requiring that, 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)

Each entry in the registers includes the decedent' s name, occupation, age, marital status, sex, race, color, residence, term of residence, cause of death, the name of the informant making report, and assigned number. Individual certificates with the same information follow the register. At some point in the later twentieth century a handwritten name index was added to each register.

In 1905, the state passed a law requiring each county to file a uniformcertificate with the State Bureau of Vital Statistics.

Research Note

Deaths occurring in Ogden are not included on this register. The researcher should contact Weber County Vital Statistics.

Research Note

Deaths occurring in Ogden are not included on this register. The researcher should contact Weber County Vital Statistics.

Images Available

This series is available on microfilm.

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Access Restrictions

This series is designated as Public.

Reproduction and Use

These records are available for reproduction and use.

Related Records

Death certificates from the Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Series 81448, contains death certificates filed with the Bureau of Vital Records beginning in 1904.

Indexing Terms

Death--Proof and certification--Weber County (Utah).

Weber County (Utah)--Statistics, Vital.

REEL	BOX	DESCRIPTION
1	1	1898 Jan - 1905 Jan: Book [1], Register of Deaths, pp. 2-27
1	1	1898 Jan - 1905 Jan: Book [1], Name index, pp. 54-68
1	2	1904 Nov - 1905 May: Book 2, Register of Deaths, pp. 1-5
1	2	1904 Nov - 1905 May: Book 2, Name index, pp. 7-9