Online Missouri Death Records & Indexes

St. Louis Death Indexes, Obituaries & Cemeteries

• Death Index: St. Louis City Death Records Index 1850-1908 at Ancestry (requires payment)
• Obituaries:
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituary Index covers 1880-1927, 1942-1945 & 1992-2005 (you can order copies of the obituaries by mail for a fee)
    • Obituary Search Engine for the Post-Dispatch Index
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch Obituaries Archive 1988-present (you can obtain copies of the obituaries online for a fee)
  • St. Louis Argus Obituary Index (African-American community newspaper) Search Engine for the Argus Index
  • Westliche Post Obituaries Index 1880-1882 (July-Dec 1881 missing) St. Louis German-language newspaper
• Cemeteries and Burials:
  • St. Louis Catholic Cemeteries Burial Search Archdiocese of St. Louis
  • Veterans Affairs Burial Search includes the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis
  • St. Louis Jewish Cemeteries & Funeral Homes Indexes
  • New Mt. Sinai Cemetery - Jewish Burials 1850-Oct 2004 (downloadable PDF files)
• Probate and Wills:
  • St. Louis Probate Court Digitization Project 1802-1900
  • St. Louis County Will Book Index 1875-1889 does not include St. Louis City
• Miscellaneous:
  • Assorted St. Louis Genealogy Records includes 1850 St. Louis County Census Mortality Schedule Index (for deaths June 1, 1849 - May 31, 1850); Deaths Reported in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat 1881-1891; Deaths of St. Louis Police Officers 1861-1899; some church burial records and more
• Also See: St. Louis Genealogy Resources

• Missouri Pre-1910 Birth & Death Records Index from the Missouri State Archives (partial) indexes over 185,000 records from 87 counties
• Missouri Death Certificates Index and Images 1910-1957 includes free downloadable images of the death certificates; see the "ordering vital records" section below for information on obtaining copies of MO death certificates after 1957
• Missouri Death Records and Index 1834-1931 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) includes images from the death registers for many of the listings; coverage varies by county
• Missouri Coroner's Inquest Database (historical) includes Andrew County, Cape Girardeau, Clinton County, Perry County, St. Francois County, St. Louis, and Stoddard County (years vary)
• Missouri Obituary Archive (recent) (you can obtain copies of the obituaries online for a fee); includes...
  • Columbia Daily Tribune (1/2/1998-Current)
  • Hannibal Courier-Post (12/9/1997-Current)
  • Jefferson City News-Tribune (3/5/1999-Current)
  • Joplin Globe (1/27/2005-Current)
  • Kansas City Star (1/2/1991-Current)
  • Lee's Summit Journal (3/1/2007-Current)
  • Springfield News-Leader (1/1/1999-Current)
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1/1/1988-Current)
  • And others

Free Missouri Death Indexes by County

• Adair County: Obituaries & Death Notices Index for the Kirksville Daily Express, March 1979-2004
• Adair County: General Index for Gravestone Inscriptions downloadable PDF files
• Andrew County - Register of Deaths 1883-1893
• Buchanan County Death Register 1883-1893
• Buchanan County: Sugar Creek Cemetery Index (Rushville)
• Butler County...
  • Butler County Death Index
  • Butler County Cemeteries
  • Butler County: Fitch-Hillis Funeral Home in Poplar Bluff, Missouri includes partial name index dating back to 1906
• Cass County Obituaries
• Christian County Cemeteries & Other Records
• Christian County Records includes Chaffin Funeral Home Records 1917-1962 (PDF files)
• Cooper County Genealogy Records includes cemeteries, death records and some obituaries
• Dent County, Missouri Deaths 1883-1885
• Greene County: Index to Coroner's Record Books 1875-1972 abstracts of suspicious, unnatural or unattended deaths
• Greene County - Local Newspapers includes some online indexes
• Grundy County Cemeteries
• Harrison County Cemeteries
• Harrison County: Partial Obituaries Index for 1988-1990
• Henry County Cemetery Records
• Independence - see Jackson County below
• Iron County Cemeteries
• Iron County Wills 1857-1888
• Jackson County Probate Court Search (recent; includes Kansas City)
• Jackson County/Kansas City - see the next section for Kansas City Star obituaries 1991-present
• Jefferson County...
  • Jefferson County Cemetery Records
  • Jefferson County, Missouri Funeral Home Records from the Dietrich, Fink, Mahn & Mothershead funeral homes in the vicinity of DeSoto in Jefferson County, Missouri
  • Jefferson County Obituaries 1999-2006 also has Hillsboro Cemetery listings
• Johnson County Cemeteries (many with online indexes)
• Johnson County Wills
• Kansas City - see Jackson County above
• Lee's Summit - see Jackson County above
• Macon County Obituary Index 1874-1933
• McDonald County Obituaries
• Mercer County Cemeteries
• Phelps County Burial Records
• Randolph County Death Index
• Ray County: Deaths Recorded in The Lawson Review 1991-2002 (except 1999)
• Reynolds County Cemetery Records
• St. Charles County Historical Society Records Search (includes obituaries, probate records, some church baptisms and more) click on "online search" when you get there
• St. Charles Library Local Indexes includes: Oak Grove Cemetery Database and St. Charles Local Newspaper Index (starts with 1988)
• St. Francois County: Farmington Public Library Obituary Index linked to digital copies of the obituaries
• Ste. Genevieve County Cemeteries
• Shannon County - Assorted Obituaries from the Current Wave
• Stone County Burial Index (10,000 records)
• Sullivan County Deaths from Newspapers 1875-1899 (not complete)
• Sullivan County Cemeteries (some with transcriptions)
• Vernon County Probate Records Index
• Washington County Cemeteries
• Wayne County Cemetery Tombstone Photographs

Fee-Based Missouri Death Indexes and Obituaries by County

• Jackson County: Obituaries Archive for the Kansas City Star 1991-present & Lee's Summit Journal 3/1/2007-present (you can obtain copies of the obituaries online for a fee) from ObitsArchive

• Missouri Death Indexes by County Available at Ancestry (these require an Ancestry subscription)...
  • Missouri Newspaper Death Index presently includes...
    • Callaway County 1846-1926, 19,179 records
    • Cole County 1884-1907, 1,617 records
    • Montgomery County 1875-1994, 29,580 records
  • Audrain County, Missouri Deaths, 1876-1905
    • Ancestry also has indexes for Audrain County obituaries 1885-1942
  • Callaway County, Missouri Deaths, 1900-1948
    • Ancestry also has indexes for Callaway County obituaries 1820-1955
  • Cole County...
    • Cole County, Missouri Deaths, 1883-1906
    • Cole County, Missouri Deaths, 1924-1930
    • Cole County, Missouri Obituaries, 1871-1899
  • Jasper County
    • Jasper County, Missouri Deaths 1878-1905
    • Jasper County, Missouri Wills Index 1842-1890
  • Lincoln County, Missouri Deaths, 1866-1936
  • Livingston County, Missouri, Cemetery Records
  • Moniteau County, Missouri Deaths, 1858-1931
  • Montgomery County, Missouri Deaths 1898-1952
    • Ancestry also has a Montgomery County Obituaries Index 1889-1935, and some cemetery indexes
  • Pike County, Missouri Deaths, 1878-1917
  • St. Clair County, Missouri Deaths, 1906-1929
  • St. Clair County, Missouri Obituaries, 1888-1928

Ordering Missouri Vital Records

• Order Missouri Birth, Marriage, Divorce or Death Certificates Online from Vitalchek since 1910 for birth & death; since July 1, 1948 for marriage & divorce (fees and restrictions apply)
• Order Missouri Vital Records by Mail same date ranges as above (fees and restrictions apply)
• Missouri State Archives Death Certificates 1910-1957 -- most of these are available for free downloading online -- see the link in the Missouri death indexes section above