Present date Volunteers include:
Frances Tendick, Linda Lashmet, Janene Nichols, Charlotte Stansfield, June Powell, Jeanette Hadden, Edith Hipkins and Dave Casey.

This INDEX was extracted from obituaries appearing in the Journal-Courier, Jacksonville, Illinois and a collection of obits owned by JAG&HS member, Miss Elizabeth Hardy of Jacksonville; she began in 1976. Miss Hardy and JAGHS member, Warren Haley of Jacksonville typed an index to those obituaries collected between dates 1976-1995. Since 1996, members of the Jacksonville Area Genealogical & Historical Society have continued to cut and paste the obits into an alpabetically arranged file for each year and placed the file into notebooks easy for the public to use. * indicates service veteran.



To obtain a copy of a photo copy of any obit, send $2.00 to:
Jacksonville Area Genealogical and Historical Society
416 S. Main St.,
Jacksonville, IL. 62650
In your request, be sure to give the name of deceased and date obit appeared in the Journal-Courier as indicated in the index.

Link to St Louis Public Library Obituary and Death Indexes 1880 to 2006 from the St Louis Post Dispatch including WWI and WWII Casualty Lists



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