The Noble County Genealogical Society proudly presents actual obituaries from the county dating from the late 1800’s through the year 2000. These books will contain the scanned images of the newspaper in which the actual obituary appeared. The index at the end of each volume contains every name mentioned in these obituaries.
The Noble County library started this obituary file in the 1980’s. The state of Indiana sent all the old Albion newspapers, which had been microfilmed, to the library. So the file was first started with only copies of the New Albion Era and the Noble County American. Leona Haney started clipping the obits and gluing them to cards so that they could be preserved for future generations. Soon it was decided to also start clipping obits from the Kendallville News Sun. We are gratefully to all the persons who have over the last twenty years kept the file current thus creating a valuable research tool for all genealogists.
In order to help the researcher we have tried whenever possible to add the date of publication, the death date, the name of the newspaper, and if a tombstone exists in one of the Noble County Cemeteries. We have tried to at least give you a starting point. The dates following the obits have the following codes:
N-The date of the newspaper publication
C-The death date was written on the obit card
P-A perpetual calendar was used to determine the death date
F-A funeral card was used to determine the death date
T-A tombstone exists in a Noble County cemetery.
We are grateful to the members of the society, which in the 1980’s surveyed and recorded the tombstones in all the Noble County cemeteries. We have used their books to match the obits with the tombstones. We are aware that with any human endeavor there may be errors. Please notify the society of any errors and we will correct them. This book is meant to be a research tool for genealogist everywhere but may not be copied, transcribed, or abstracted in its entirety without written permission of the Noble County Genealogical Society.
Noble County Genealogical Society
January 2002
ã 2002 Noble County Genealogical Society