Online Arkansas Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries

Online Arkansas Death Records Indexes and Cemeteries

Arkansas Death Certificates, 1914-1969 at Ancestry/requires payment; includes images of the death certificates
Arkansas Death Certificate Search, 1935-1961 from the Arkansas Department of Health; you can order copies of the death certificates for a fee
Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950 (requires payment) at Ancestry/has about 594,000 listings

Arkansas Gravestones has over 1.3 million gravestone photos

Arkansas Death Records Indexes, Obituaries and Cemeteries by County

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
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
Lawrence County: Times Dispatch Obituaries Index, 1957-1967
Lee County Cemeteries
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, Feb. 1, 1914-1948
Pulaski County: Oakland and Fraternal Historic Cemetery Records, 1867-2013 in Little Rock, Arkansas; from FamilySearch
Saline County Cemeteries also has a marriage index and other indexes
Saline County Library Obituaries Index for the Benton Courier newspaper; PDF files
Sebastian County...
- Sebastian County: Searchable Genealogy Indexes from the Fort Smith Library includes cemeteries, and birth, marriage and 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
Sevier County Death Records, 1914-1923 at FamilySearch (indexed)
Union County...
- Union County: Funeral Records of Rumph-Owers Funeral Home, El Dorado, Arkansas, 1940-1948
- Union County Cemeteries
Washington County...
- Washington County Cemeteries from the Luginbuel Funeral Home
Yell County: Cemetery Records and Obituaries of Yell County, Arkansas

Also... Arkansas Genealogy Records at Ancestry (requires payment) includes census records, military records, marriage indexes and more

Ordering Arkansas Vital Records

Where to Write for Vital Records - Arkansas fees and restrictions apply

Online Arkansas Death Records & Indexes

A Genealogy Guide for Finding Obituaries, Cemetery Burials and Death Certificates