Arkansas Gazette Obituaries Index, 1819-1879

By: Stephen J. Chism, Pub. 1990, Reprinted 2015, 120 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-514-0. This index includes 14,329 entries of unequivocal reports of death in which a person (s) is named between the years 1819 and 1879. The Arkansas Gazette for the same period lists 4,201 names under the heading "Deaths". This can be attributed to the inclusive policy of listing every mention of death, whether it appears in an obituary column or in the text of an article on another subject. If a perso