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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Indexes of Quaker Obituaries--Correction
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:37:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Oops--Quaker Necrology embraces 1827 to 1960, 133 years.
Tom Hamm
There is no master list or index of Quaker obituaries. The only one on
> line is my own compilation of obituaries and death notices in the American
> Friend from 1894 to 1960. Here is the URL:
>
> http://www.earlham.edu/library/content/friends/obituaries/index.html
>
> The best resource is Quaker Necrology, compiled by staff at Haverford
> Collegeand published in 1961. It includes obituaries from the four main
> Quaker periodicals in Philadelphia from 1927 to 1960. All were national
> in the coverage, not limited just to Philadelphia Friends. It is
> available only in book form.
>
> Finally, there is an abstract of obituaries in the Christian Worker, a
> Quaker weekly published in New Vienna, Ohio, and Chicago between 1871 and
> 1894. It is a typescript, never formally published, but available in some
> of the Quaker college libraries.
>
> Tom Hamm
>
>
>
> I am not aware of any lists or extracts. If you know the date of a death,
>> simply browse the issues in the weeks following until you find the
>> obituary. Just as you would with a newspaper.
>>
>> Sometimes, we have to touch paper.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> From: Sandra Hamlin <>
>> Date: 2008/06/12 Thu PM 07:00:00 CDT
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [Q-R] are there records of Funerals in Richmond Indiana
>> Quaker church
>>
>> I'm just wondering where I could see a complete list of these
>> obituaries. I'm looking for Hannah Johnson Cox. Thanks
>>
>> wrote: There were Quaker weekly magazines of the
>> time, which included obituaries with that sort of information. The
>> Friend
>> and Friends Intelligencer were two of these. In the late 19th Century,
>> there was one for Hicksite Friends and one for the Orthodox.
>>
>> Check with a Quaker library.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> From:
>> Date: 2008/06/12 Thu PM 04:15:19 CDT
>> To:
>> Subject: [Q-R] are there records of Funerals in Richmond Indiana Quaker
>> church
>>
>> Hello
>> Were Funerals recorded in Quaker church books? I just received an
>> artical
>> that my Great Great Grandfather Horcace Stratton remains would be Taken
>> from Peru Indiana Back to his home town of Richmond Indiana and a short
>> service would be held in the Quaker church. the artical was dated April
>> 24 1899. His father was Benjamin Stratton and they belonged to the
>> Hicksite Quakers.. Would there be any records from that church in
>> Richmond that told of this service that a someone could search for .
>> Robin
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