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Subject: Re: [AR-CEMETERIES] FELIX G. BIRDWELL
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:00:51 +0000

Arkansas didnt start keeping death certificates until February 1914. There may be a few pre-1914 certs there but very few.

Have you tried the Easley Cemetery records? They may have some records? Have you tried looking for his obit in the local White Co. newspapers of 1910?

The 1880 census shows a Felix G. Birdwell in White Co. AR...is this your Felix? Says he was born in Tennessee c1823.
Felix G. BIRDWELL Self M Male W 57 TN Farmer TN TN
Susan E. BIRDWELL Wife M Female W 31 TN Keeping House TN TN
Elizabeth Dau S Female W 5 AR TN TN
Tolitha J. BIRDWELL Dau S Female W 3 AR TN TN
Felix D. A. BIRDWELL Son S Male W 2 AR TN TN


Source Information:
Census PlaceClay, White, Arkansas
Family History Library Film 1254059
NA Film Number T9-0059
Page Number 73D


Quite a few Birdwell's in TN 1820-1830....I'd first try the 1850 TN and AR census to see if he had his parent[s] living with him. Then work back
r/Steven
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> Anyone tell me where I can look for a death cert. for Felix Grundy Birdwell,
> died in 1910 and interred in Easley Cemetery, Gurdon (Clark CO.) Arkansas ??
>
> Know they did "officially" start keeping them back then, but there MUST be
> proof somewhere of his parents??
>
> Thanks soooo much.
>
> Shirley G. Crozier
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> > In a message dated 2/23/2008 4:23:10 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> > writes:
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> > Will and all~ I found in the Faulkner County Library, typewritten and
> > bound
> > in a manila folder Arkansas Obits for the Arkansas Gazette. 1819 to 1875.
> > I
> > was told at the Archives in Little Rock that they had them there.>>
> >
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> > That's right. The Gazette has many obits, but not all.
> > At one time the Gazette tried to cover essentially the whole state, but
> > later that narrowed of course. People who lived far away and weren't very
> > important weren't mentioned.
> >
> > The earliest Gazette articles, some of them anyway, are online freely. I
> > forget the exact address.
> > We just have to remember not to rely solely on the Gazette. In the 19th
> > century there were many newspapers operating in Arkansas.
> >
> > There is a book by James Logan Morgan, who essentially, runs over all of
> > them, naming when and where they operated and gives excerpts from them. I
> > forget its exact name something like "Newspaper Abstracts from 1819 to
> > 1845" or
> > something like that.
> >
> > At any rate, it illustrates the contrary to what some people may think,
> > there were many newspapers in Arkansas in the 19th century. And many if
> > not all
> > of them carried various obits, mostly of the local people in that
> > particular
> > part of the state. But also of anyone famous, anywhere as well.
> >
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