One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and sometimes more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found anywhere else.
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to death information and obituaries from newspapers have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes or index lists provide the location in old newspapers where the obituary can be found. Sometimes the obituary clipping or transcription is even provided.
Below is a list of links to Missouri obituary indexes, an alternative means to newspaper searching to find obituary information. If the newspaper clippings are available, or if the obituaries are transcribed, they will be denoted. Please be aware that if you find a desired obituary in an index, that the holder of the actual obituary (e.g., library or genealogical society) may charge a small fee to send you a copy of the obituary itself.
(Updated October 2021; recently added links are in BOLD)
General U.S.
- Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014
- Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2016
- U.S., Selected Jewish Obituaries, 1948-2002
- United Methodist Church Annual Conference Journal Memoirs and Obituary Index
- United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014
- United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012
Missouri
- Adair County Obituary Index
- Adair County Obituary Indexes
- Atchison County Deaths from Newspapers
- Atchison County Obituary Indexes
- Audrain County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Audrain County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Barry County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Barton County Obituary Indexes
- Bates County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Benton County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Boone County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Buchanan County Death and Obituary Index
- Caldwell County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Callaway Obituaries 1848-1873
- Cape Girardeau County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Carroll County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Carroll County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Cass County Memorial Card & Obituary Collection
- Cass County, Missouri, Obituary Index, 1870-2011
- Cass County Historical Society Obituaries
- Catholic Tribune Deaths
- Cedar County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Christian County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Clinton County Death Notices
- Cooper County Genealogy Records (transcriptions)
- Crawford County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Crawford County Obituaries (clippings)
- Dallas County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Dekalb County Death Notices from area newspapers 1907-1910
- Dent County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Dent County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Farmington Area Obituaries (clippings)
- Gasconade Valley Obituary Indexes
- Harrison County Missouri Obituaries
- Harrison County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Harrison County Obituary Index
- Henry County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Hickory County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Holt County Deaths from Newspapers
- Howard County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Howell County Obituaries
- Jackson County Obituaries
- Jackson County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Jasper County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Jefferson County Newspaper Index
- Jefferson County Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Johnson County Obituaries 1985
- Kirksville Daily Express Obituary Index
- Laclede County, New Hope Cemetery, Burials and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Lincoln County Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Macon County Obituary Indexes (transcriptions)
- Maries County Obituary Indexes
- McDonald County Area Obituary Index
- McDonald County, Missouri, Obituary Index, 1899-2008
- Midwest Genealogy Center Indexes (transcriptions)
- Miller County Obituaries Index (transcriptions)
- Miller County Museum and Historical Society Obituaries and Obituary Index (transcriptions)
- Missouri GenealogyBuff Obituary Files
- Missouri men from newspapers, Obituary Index , 1808-1854
- Missouri Obituaries – Obit City
- Missouri Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Missouri Obituaries (clippings) 1968
- Missouri USGenWeb Obituary Project
- Missouri, St. Louis Public Library Obituary Index, 1880-2011
- Moniteau County Obituary Indexes
- Newton County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Nodaway County Obituaries (clippings)
- North Eastern Missouri Obituaries, ca. 1959-1981 (clippings)
- Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Oregon County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Ozark County Obituaries
- Ozarks Genealogical Society Obituary Index
- Ozarks Obituary Collection
- Pettis County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Phelps, Crawford, Dent and Washington Counties Obituaries, ca. 1880-1990 (clippings)
- Polk County Genealogical Society Obituary Index
- Randolph County Death and Obituary Indexes
- Ray County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Ray County Obituary Indexes
- Saline County Obituary Index
- Scott County Obituaries
- Scott County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Shannon County Obituaries
- Sparta News-Plaindealer, Births, Marriages and Obituaries (clippings)
- Springfield, Greene County, Newspaper Clippings, 1939-1991
- St. Charles County Obituaries and Death Notices
- St. Francois County Obituaries and Death Notices
- St. Francois County Obituary Index (clippings)
- St. Joseph Gazette Deaths
- St. Joseph Public Library Obituary Database
- St. Louis Argus Obituary Index
- St. Louis Christian Advocate Obituaries Index 1851-1882
- St. Louis County Obituaries and Death Notices
- St. Louis Globe-Democrat Obituary Clipping index
- St. Louis Globe-Democrat Obituary Index
- St. Louis Obituary Index
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Search
- St. Louis Sun Obituary Index, 1989-1990
- St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index, 1880-2009
- Sullivan County Obituaries 1875-1899 (transcriptions)
- Texas County Obituaries
- Texas County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Texas County Obituaries, 1939-1981
- Warren County Obituaries and Death Notices
- Westliche Post Obituaries Index 1876-1894
- Weston Chronicle and Buchanan County News, Obituaries (clippings)
- Wright County Republican and The Hartville Democrat Death Notices and Obituaries (clippings)
- Wright County Progress Death Notices and Obituaries, 1900 -1910 (clippings)
If you wish to search this state’s historic newspapers for obituaries, click on Missouri Online Historical Newspapers Summary
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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I just wanted to THANK YOU for all your work compiling the Missouri obituary links on this page ! I know I’ll be coming here often, and I imagine a lot of other folks will too.