It is also a way to keep our many hundreds of cemetery listings updated. We do not have the resources to even finish reading all 700 cemeteries in the area represented on this site, let alone update the ones we have read. Obituary pages by cemetery help us keep current a little better. 

I am also hoping that his organization will encourage site guests to submit their obits AND ACCOMPANYING PHOTOS WHERE AVAILABLE to help this part of the library develop. Those who have used the site for many years understand that its success relies on the willingness of its users to also contribute to the body of knowledge it contains. Obits can be submitted typed in word processing or even just in your email and sent to me (Joyce M. Tice). Please do not send just images or copies unless you have no alternative. Those will have to be sent to a typist and we are short of those. Obits can be current or old. If the obit does not specify the cemetery and you know it, please include that information so we can present the obit in the proper cemetery page.  If possible include the paper that published it and the date. Obits for people with local connections buried outside of our three counties will go to the regular obit - clipping pages. New pages added here will not necessarily be listed on the What's New pages as they often start with a single obit and develop more fully later. They are added to regularly as obits are received and processed. 

The continued development of this section of the site is up to the willingness of you, the site guest, to submit your obits. There are already 215 pages of obits on the site that are not arranged by cemetery, but they are a source for this section as well. If you submit an obit from an existing page, please say so and give me the page number, so that I can delete it from the other location.  The more obits we have submitted the better we can tell the story of these communities and the people who have lived in them.