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From: "Elizabeth Freeman" <>
Subject: [Arizona] Death Index
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:19:53 -0500


Could someone advise me if Arizona has a death index? If so, where would one gain access to it?

I am looking for the deaths of a father/son duo. Their names are John Casner (b.1822 MO) and John Lewis/Luke/Lou Casner (b.1851 IA). The last official date I have for them being alive is 6-24-1902 when they signed papers to sell the last of their range land in TX. Some of the children of John Lewis Casner went to school in Farmington, NM after that date. While I have located all the children of John Lewis on the 1910 census in various places, John and John Lewis Casner are not to be found. The story goes that John Lewis Casner "died of a heart attack on the banks of the San Juan River while hunting quail". The problem is no one as a clue as to which San Juan River and what state nor does anyone have a clue as to what became of the elder John Casner. At the present time I am searching San Juan County, NM and San Juan County, UT. However, it occurred to me that one or both of them may have wondered over into AZ and died in Apache County (or elsewhere). Two brothers to!
the elder John Casner lived in AZ and I have located their graves and graves of their families (this was all through cemetery searches). The family of one of the married daughters of the son is also found elsewhere in AZ.

My story is getting too long. I am endeavoring to determine if Arizona has a death index? Or did the county clerk of each county maintain a death index prior to statehood? Thanks for any information.



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