{"id":28501,"date":"2018-01-23T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=28501"},"modified":"2020-03-25T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:09:08","slug":"genealogy-tip-not-every-obituary-was-printed-on-the-obituary-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-tip-not-every-obituary-was-printed-on-the-obituary-page.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Tip: Not Every Obituary Was Printed on the Obituary Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obituaries were printed throughout the newspaper. Yes, they predominantly appeared grouped in one section \u2013 but they could appear anywhere in the newspaper.<\/p>\n

For example, this obituary was published in the \u201cLocals\u201d section (the Noroton section) of the Stamford Advocate<\/em>. It was published as a news items about neighboring towns.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 10 January 1901, Page 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It mentions that \u201csince the death of her son last February, Mrs. Stark has been in frail health.\u201d That\u2019s sobering \u2013 very special to know that.<\/p>\n

If I hadn\u2019t looked up this obituary I wouldn\u2019t have known the impact of her son\u2019s death on her. She was only 70 when she died.<\/p>\n

I had a list of her children \u2013 but was missing the death date for two of her sons.<\/p>\n

So, I looked back to the newspapers around February 1900 and found his obituary \u2013 which also appeared as a news item.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 1 March 1900, page 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wow, he was only 38 when he died.<\/p>\n

And I see the Rev. Louis French officiated at both funerals.<\/p>\n

Searching again in GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, I found out more about the Reverend.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Bridgeport Evening Farmer (Bridgeport, Connecticut), 30 September 1912, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He had been the Rector at \u201cSt. Luke\u2019s Episcopal Church\u201d in Noroton, Connecticut, for 49 years.<\/p>\n

Mary (Strickland) Stark died in January and her son John Strickland Stark died the previous February. Perhaps the Church looked like this the day of their funerals.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: St. Luke\u2019s Episcopal Church, Noroton, Connecticut. Source: Facebook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Obituaries were printed on all pages of the newspaper, from the front page to the last page. Don\u2019t assume that they were only published on the \u201cObituary\u201d pages of the newspaper. When searching obituaries,<\/a> be sure to look up and read every obituary \u2013 make sure you learn and document every story about your family. Some of them will be poignant \u2013 you\u2019ll be glad to know their special stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp with examples showing how obituaries were printed on many pages in a newspaper \u2013 not just the obituary page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,2020,1084],"class_list":["post-28501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-obituaries"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/photo-0810-2016-cemetery-3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}