Tippecanoe County Indiana Death Records Index

TIPCOA OBITUARY INDEX LINKS. See others below.

Tippecanoe County Indiana

Death Records Project

1882 to 1920

In an effort to help family historians find their family death dates, We have posted the Tippecanoe County Death Index created by the Works Administration Project (WPA). This index included deaths from 1882 through 1920. We included a column to add the cemetery name, if known, in this index. We know it's helpful in finding other family members. These real Death Records books have not been microfilm to date in our County.

During the period 1936-1940 the Indiana Works Progress Administration indexed a large part of the birth, marriage and death records of 68 of Indiana's 92 counties. Marriage records were indexed from 1850 through 1920. Birth and death records were indexed from 1882 through 1920. While not all Counties conformed, Tippecanoe County did start vital records in 1882. Not all deaths were recorded, especially those families that lived out in the rural areas.

Undoubtedly there are typing errors when transcribing a project with this many dates. We find them in many early records. We listed it as it was printed. We did highlighted cells show information we found while linking the names to a tombstone. It could be the same person. We did not really want to correct the whole WPA list, just showing possible matches. There are a few names we hope we corrected, and they are in noted in red.

Ab to An	Ap to Ay	Ba to Bn	Bo to Bros	Brow_By	Ca to Cd
Ce to Com	Con to Cy	Da to Dic	Die to Dy	E	F
G	H	I	J	K	Ler Les
Ma to McDole	McDonald to Metzinger	Meyer to Miv	Moag to My	N	O
P	Q	Ra to Rogers	Roh to Ry	Sa to Shawer	Shea to Smith
Smithb to Sy	T	U	V	Wa to Wiese	Wig to Wy
Unknowns	Y	Z	Thank you TIPCOA MEMBERS ;-)

If you need an obituary or research click here for our form:

There are several newspapers in the Tippecanoe County Public library that you can check for obituaries. You may find a totally different obituary in daily newspapers if the family was local. You should check the weekly newspapers too. Sometime the obituaries were sent in later. These newspapers are on microfilm in the back reference areas at the main public library.

Death Notices found in the Lafayette Free Press 1833-1839 ** rare

Tippecanoe County Genweb, early death notices 1840s

Deaths From Cholera, 1849

1850 Mortality Schedule

1901 Obituary Index - Lafayette Weekly Courier

Lafayette Journal and Courier Newspaper Index, 1902-1952

Lafayette Leader Obituary Index Project 1970 to 1990

Try the Find A Grave listings below for Tippecanoe County. Use the search box to see who has been added.

For more information on the cemeteries in Tippecanoe County, Indiana click here. See the table.

Tippecanoe County Health Department link.

If you need help with your family research, our Society, TIPCOA can help. Click here.

Rudys list of Archaic Medical Terms