Online Arkansas Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Arkansas Death Indexes, Obituaries and Cemeteries

Arkansas Death Index 1914-1950 (requires payment) at Ancestry/has about 594,000 listings
Arkansas Death Certificate Search 1935-1961 from the Arkansas Department of Health; you can order copies of the death certificates for a fee
Electronic Index of Arkansas Deaths, 1819-1920 (not complete; ongoing project)

Arkansas Obituaries Archive (recent) (you can obtain copies of individual obituaries online for a fee) includes the Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times (1/2/2001-Current); Fort Smith Southwest Times Record (10/13/2007-Current); Jonesboro Sun (8/25/1999-Current); Little Rock, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (10/30/2011-Current); North Little Rock Times (10/12/2007-Current); Springdale Morning News (10/26/2009-Current) and about 40 more Arkansas newspapers
Arkansas Cemeteries (listed by county) not complete, but has many listings
Arkansas Gravestones (has over 750,000 gravestone photos)
Catalog of Arkansas Resources and Archival Treasures indexes some obituaries and other genealogy-related records

Ashley County Obituaries 1965-present from the Ashley County Ledger - also includes cemetery listings
Benton County Arkansas Cemeteries
Boone County Cemeteries
Bradley County Obituaries Index extracted from the Arkansas Methodist Newspaper 1884-1930
Carroll County Historical and Genealogical Society - Cemetery Grave Marker Index
Carroll County Cemeteries
Craighead County: Cemeteries and Jonesboro Sun Obituaries Index
Fayetteville - see the Washington County section below
Garland County: Hot Springs Sentinel-Record Obituaries Index (ongoing project) also has some cemetery transcriptions and links to obituary indexes for nearby counties; from the Melting Pot Genealogical Society
Jefferson County: Pine Bluff Obituary Index
Lawrence County Cemeteries
Little Rock - see the Arkansas Obituaries Archive link above
Nevada County Cemetery Records
Newton County Cemeteries
Pike County Genealogy Records Indexes includes some cemetery burials for Clark, Hot Spring, Montgomery and Pike Counties
Prairie County Death Certificates Index 1914-1949
Saline County Cemeteries also has a marriage index and other indexes
Sebastian County...
- Sebastian County: Searchable Genealogy Indexes from the Fort Smith Library includes cemeteries, and birth, marriage & death indexes
- Sebastian County Birth and Death Records Index from FamilySearch indexes births and deaths from Sebastian County 1877-1929, and deaths from Fort Smith 1945-1963
- Sebastian County Cemeteries
Washington County...
- Washington County: Fayetteville Public Library Obituary Records Index 1868-2010
- Washington County Cemeteries from the Luginbuel Funeral Home
- Washington County: Evergreen Cemetery Burials (Fayetteville, Arkansas) database is not yet complete
Yell County: Cemetery Records of Yell County, Arkansas
Yell County Obituaries

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